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Coventry – city of culture, city of peace
NICK MATTHEWS pays tribute to a fascinating city that’s not always its own best advocate
The Coventry circular market contains a mural from the 1950s by specially commissioned art students from Dresden
by the Greater Manchester Workers’ and Tenants’ Association
The US relationship with Israel has evolved into a strategic liability, argues RAMZY BAROUD
A champion motorcyclist, trade union organiser and communist, Clem Beckett went from Britain’s speedway tracks to the battlefields of Spain, where he gave his life resisting Franco’s forces at Jarama. GEOFF BOTTOMS pays tribute to this remarkable anti-fascist
The greatest threat to democracy may no longer come from political parties but from unelected tech oligarchs like Peter Thiel and his powerful Silicon Valley network, argues JOHN GREEN
Claiming to ease a fertiliser shortage, the Trump administration has suspended tariffs on Moroccan phosphate imports – deepening US support for the Morocco’s control over Sahrawi territory, writes LUKE ROTELLO
COVENTRY is a fascinating city. Like a lot of places in the Midlands you wouldn’t know this from the people who live there or often from the people who are at least nominally its custodians.
The locals are not always great ambassadors or appreciative of the good things their city has. Sometimes it takes outsiders to see it. There is a sort of contempt born of familiarity.
One outsider is Adrian Jones, who for me has inherited the mantle of architectural critic Ian Nairn — he has written some great stuff in his book Towns in Britain (with Chris Matthews, Five Leaves Press, 2014), and blogs as “Jones the Planner.”
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