Culture, music and Mersey views – how to discover Liverpool’s accessible side

Following cultural investment and recent regeneration, Merseyside is a place where barriers are being steadily stripped away.

‘I’m the product of a smashed-up family’: how Sean Scully became the greatest abstract painter alive

He has survived loss, breakdown and schooling by ‘scary nuns’, but the anguish is still there in his art. As his new show thrills Paris, the US-based, Irish-born artist talks about the pain that drive ...