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• Liverpool is spectacular and sometimes strange to walk around, but how it can make the heart ache | Rachel Cooke

  14-10-2023 19:17
  
  Once elegant ballrooms stand derelict and who on earth put a Hooters next to a Peter Ellis masterpiece?How good to be in Liverpool after a long time away – and no, I wasn’t there for the Labour party conference. My first stop: Alfred Waterhouse’s magnificent terracotta Victoria Gallery & Museum to see the novelist Jonathan Coe on stage with another writer close to my heart (my husband, in case I sound like a stalker) at the literary festival. My second: the eternally lovely
  
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• No jetpacks or monorails, new towns just need to be places people want to live | Rowan Moore

  14-10-2023 18:03
  
  Overcoming nimbyism will be the least of Labour’s challenges in creating communities fit for modern BritainNew towns are back. One of the most distinctive policies of Labour’s still light-on-detail offer to the voters is Keir Starmer’s promise to create the “next generation” of this evergreen concept, one which Clement Attlee’s 1945 Labour government put into practice at a large scale.His statement gives some hope of an approach to building homes and communiti
  
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• The Black Country’s bright side – in pictures

  14-10-2023 18:00
  
  Tom Hicks’s Black Country Type series began in 2017, when he started photographing striking sights while out cycling in the West Midlands. Since then, the artist, writer and curator has taken hundreds of photographs of brightly coloured buildings and unusual signs, now collected in a book. “It’s a free-form exploration of a region that people don’t know much about,” he says. One of the trickiest aspects of the project is his self-imposed rule about using the sun as
  
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