A message from Salford’s Working Class Movement Library:
We have been shortlisted in the Arts Council-funded Museums at Night competition to win an artist to appear in an event at the Library. This is an annual …

By Swinefingers
Whilst Meryl Streep is rightly in receipt of plaudits for her portrayal of Thatcher, complemented by a consummate performance by Jim Broadbent as Denis Thatcher – which, if accurate, confirms Private Eye’s suggestion that he was not much more than a gibbering buffoon – The Iron Lady is a film wherein many contradictions lie.

We’ve touched on this government’s disgusting ‘work for nothing or lose your benefits’ policy in A Fine Lung before. Issue six to be precise. Here is the piece we featured…

Poetry from Mike Duff, music from Mount Fabric, beer brewed especially for the occasion – what further excuse do you need?

Hackney Library holds happier memories for me as a kid. Not that I was a boffin or a nerd or a swot which is probably the word I would have used in 1968. The common …

He couldn’t help getting involved though, with fittingly comic results…

By Chris Taylor
I recently employed a girl who was a fine art student. I did this largely so when I asked what she did, and she replied “I’m a fine art student.” I could reply “Yeah. You are.” Unfortunately I never got the chance to drop this sizzling Wildean witticism in to conversation, which in retrospect was probably for the best. Instead we had very long, very involved, and massively one-sided conversations about art, culture, and the role the two play in shaping the minds of the populace.

Murdoch and his mates, aka the dibble, have thrown up a nasty fixture clash for FC United again on Saturday, but fear not for those of us who don’t dance to Sky TV’s tune, there is Course You Can Malcolm.

Footage from United’s 1958 European Cup match against Red Star Belgrade, the day before many of the team perished.
Remarkably, the scoreline was repeated yesterday, allbeit against different opposition in a different competition and in a …

Remembering: Geoff Bent, Roger Byrne, Eddie Colman, Duncan Edwards, Mark Jones, David Pegg, Tommy Taylor, Liam Whelan, Walter Crickmer, Bert Whalley, Tom Curry, Alf Clarke, Don Davies, George Follows, Tom Jackson, Archie Ledbrooke, Henry Rose, Eric Thompson, Frank Swift, Kenneth Rayment, Bela Miklos, Willie Satinoff, Tommy Cable.

Today has been designated as National Libraries Day, an occasion to champion and celebrate libraries. A moment of your time therefore:
1. 76% of 5-10 year olds in the UK use libraries
2. Over 10% of UK …

Recently, the paintings of one artist in particular have graced the Lowry Art Gallery’s walls; the paintings of an artist important to the development of Lowry’s talents and fascinating to anyone interested in a little tit-bit of Mancunian history.