Music in Liverpool -14/08/2008
MADeA writes "Outside of and after the Beatles, our greatest triumph of musical individuality and freedom, Liverpool music's story has been one of conformity and constraint. Today to be a successful "Liverpool" band or artist embraced by the local media and propelled to national and international levels, one must don a stylistic “scouserock” straightjacket."
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The Streets You Have No Right To Walk Down - 5/7/2008
On Thursday, 3rd July 2008, Adam Ford spoke at a session of the 'Capital, Culture, Power: Criminalisation and Resistance' conference organised by the University of Liverpool, John Moores University, and Nerve magazine.The topic of his speech was the controversial Liverpool One development. Read more

Radical Route through Liverpool - 19/5/2008
The TUC and Unite have put together a “Walking Tour of Liverpool, City of Protest”. A two-hour walk around town takes you around 15 sites of demonstrations, strikes, protests and commemorations. You start outside St George’s Hall, where the police attacked demonstrators on Liverpool’s Bloody Sunday in August 1911. Read more

Kirkby Nan's Planning War! Which plan do you prefer? - 23/4/2008
Option One: Kirkby grandmother and retired laundry worker Dot Reid plus loads of her neighbours get chucked out of their homes, which are then demolished to make way for yet another Tesco, some more shops, and a new stadium for Everton FC.
Option Two: Tesco boss Sir Terry Leahy gets slung out of his luxury home in Hertfordshire, which is then demolished to make way for a community garden with water features and a kiosk for pensioners. Read more