Laurence Thompson
Laurence is a feature writer from Merseyside. He writes on all cultural subjects from books to boxing, and enjoys profiling interesting local figures.
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The Mersey’s clean-up cost £8 billion. So why is it still so dirty?
It was meant to be “the greatest river recovery in Europe”, but experts maintain it’s still a threat to public health
The decline and fall of Merseyside culture
How to kill a city's art scene
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How to kill a Merseyside theatre
Merseyside’s historic theatres are rotting. Saving them will take more than council subsidies
Goodbye, Goodison Park
Everton’s historic stadium has been at the heart of the community for 13 decades. Can the local area — and Everton itself — survive without it?
The Southport killer has been sentenced. Speculation about his motive rages on
The dangers of ascribing political or religious motivations to Axel Rudakubana
Hellraiser: Clive Barker on sex, art, and death
The author and filmmaker tells The Post about growing up gay in Liverpool, witnessing disaster, and the power of imagination
Luke Littler conquered the darts world. A new generation wants in
Darts hasn't been this popular since the 1980s. How did Merseyside become the game’s new Mecca?
Robbed right before Christmas: A winter’s morning with the Whitechapel Centre
The homelessness charity celebrates its 50th birthday next year. But it needs help more than ever
A Christmas Carol at St George’s Hall: Boz tha, or bleak Scouse?
We sent The Post’s resident miser to see if three Christmas ghosts might change his attitude
The Liverpool Care Pathway denied NHS patients food and water, sometimes “hastening death". A decade later, is this still happening?
A controversial end-of-life care program was wound down in 2014 following allegations of involuntary euthanasia. But some worry it never really ended.
Why must yet another venue in the 'City of Music' make way for 'luxury' flats?
'It’s hard to shake the feeling of hopelessness that many in grassroots music circles are feeling right now'
After Tony's wife died, he wanted to despair. Instead, he started caring for strangers' graves
'I’ve had people on the phone crying with gratitude, and with the guilt they’d carried with them'
Deadpool, Davros and honorary geekdom: Why tens of thousands flock to Liverpool’s Comic Con
‘If you live in a place where there’s not a lot of colour, comics and games can be a glimmer of light'
Revengers, assemble!
A campy dystopia set in Liverpool was panned upon release in 2002. Laurence makes the case for rediscovering a classic so forgotten even its screenwriter doesn’t remember it
West Kirby is ‘supposed to be this quaint, silent town with no problems’
So why has it been slapped with a Public Spaces Protection Order?
Chau’s swan song
The end of an era for a Tuebrook institution, the ‘world’s best’ Chinese restaurant
His death was ruled a ‘misadventure’. Was he actually killed by his wife?
The complicated legacy of Merseyside literary master Malcolm Lowry