'If you tolerate this ...': Nicky Wire on library closures

Libraries were my band's lifeline, writes Nicky Wire of the Manic Street Preachers. We must fight for themIt's hard not to feel utterly despondent at the current plight of public libraries. Along with the NHS and the BBC, our libraries are some of the few truly remarkable British institutions left. So often absolutely ordinary in appearance, a good library should offer escape routes down the most extraordinary avenues, pathways into different worlds from the one you've left outside. Ridding our ...

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