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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
ANDY McDONALD MP says Labour must show it is capable of delivering real improvements in people’s lives — bold action is required
ANGUS REID and ANDREW JOHNSTONE report on an initiative that we must take this summer
ALLISON FEWTRELL on what Plaid Cymru's historic election victory means for the communities being failed by Wales’s housing crisis, and four things the new government can do right now
France Insoumise MP JEROME LEGAVRE speaks to Christophe Domec on building the Europe-wide peace movement that came together in the International Conference Against War last weekend
At last weekend’s International Conference Against War, LINDA PENTZ GUNTER talks to the Palestinian physician and politician about the struggles ahead to achieve a truly free Palestine
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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