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The persecution of the motorist

As a permanent pedestrian and occasional cyclist I’m all for the persecution of the motorist After breakfast in Liverpool I did notice some blue lights outside the cafe Apparently all the traffic is one way and because there was an…

Flaneuring in Liverpool

Mooching in Liverpool in advance of the party conference tomorrow – I got here yesterday and swung by News From Nowhere to feel the comfort of radical books – about to interview the people who run it so hoovering up…

Kenneth Clark on Romantics: Gericault, Constable & Goya

Islamophobe Gove with Rory Stewart and Alastair Campbell The Sassoons’s dirty opium fortune