I posted the following a couple of days ago"

HOME is an arts complex in Manchester that hosts literary events, films, celebrity interviews etc. It was due to present a Palestinian literary event in April with Maxine Peake reading from award-winning work and an appearance by a Palestinian author. After receiving a letter from a Manchester Jewish group, the servile and cowardly management has cancelled the event, much to the disappointment of Comma Press, a northern publisher which organised it.

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Maxine Peake and over 300 artists, actors, writers signed a strongly-worded letter to the management protesting this decision. This afternoon HOME has apologised and is going ahead as planned.

I was going to include here a link to the Manchester Evening News story, but their website is so appalling , with ads you can't delete or get away from that I've stopped reading it altogether. The MEN used to be a half-decent news source but now it's a travesty ruled by the ad dept and is literally unreadable. Well, when the readership shuns it, as they must, the ad dept will get their reward. No readers.