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Allergic to the herd instinct, the myopic, and the divisive. Liverpool-based online magazine somewhere between snark and puppy.
In England’s Northwest, one city blooms while another withers on the vine. Manchester is reaching for the skies while Liverpool stares at its navel. A cancerous rot is eating away at our city’s self-esteem. It deserves a name. We call it Northwesternism.
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The Scourge of Northwesternism — Liverpolitan
In England’s North West, one city blooms while another withers on the vine. Manchester is reaching for the skies while Liverpool stares at its navel. A cancerous rot is eating away at my city’s self-e...
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December 4, 2024 at 12:59 PM
Where once utopian thinkers dreamed of creating the perfect world, today we seem more inclined to expect the worst. Are we right to fear our dreams of perfection lead inexorably to disorder and tyranny?
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The Quest For Utopia — Liverpolitan
We’ve been searching for the keys to a better world since the days of Moses, says Pauline Hadaway. Dystopian nightmares aside, why should we stop trying now?
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November 19, 2024 at 10:30 AM
In 1965, the Welsh village of Capel Celyn was flooded to supply fresh water to Liverpool. It’s been a sore point ever since. Looking back, was this a case of predatory exploitation or a rational decision based on the needs of the majority?

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Remembering Capel Celyn — Liverpolitan
In 1965, the Welsh village of Capel Celyn in the Tryweryn Valley was flooded to supply fresh water to Liverpool. It’s been a sore point ever since. Was this a case of predatory exploitation or a ratio...
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November 18, 2024 at 8:57 PM
This feature, which takes aim at the same old, same old Scouse cliches being doled out in film and TV remains one of Liverpolitan's most popular features. It's an ever-green subject. Since we wrote this, there's been a few more examples added to the sorry pile.
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The Ten Commandments of Scouse TV and Film — Liverpolitan
“Another crime drama for Liverpool. Original,” we’d posted. Queue shitstorm. Tony bit back and all hell broke loose. Actors, producers, godknowswhosers leapt in intent on tearing us a new one, and pre...
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November 17, 2024 at 10:05 AM
This feature touched on an a familiar issue for the city of Liverpool - it's image - and then took it in a surprising direction.
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Why we should stop banging on about Thatcher and the Toxteth Bloody Riots — Liverpolitan
Journalists arrive in Liverpool to tell the same story over and over again - the city cast as the lead in a Shakespearean morality play, of tragedy, treachery and renewal. Yet is our own obsession wit...
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November 16, 2024 at 2:14 PM
... because it's good to communicate if we want to create a better, freer world. To black and white, male and female, right and left, young and old, rich and poor. Even to sippers of Prosecco.
November 14, 2024 at 2:45 PM