As those who can still be bothered to care continue to fume at his flirtationship with the far right, Morrissey presses on with the insouciance of a thrice-wed gaslighter, essentially putting down the dog whistle he’s been...
Read MoreJennifer Makumbi’s father was a bank manager in Kampala. It was 1978, at the height of Idi Amin’s reign of terror, when her family’s lives were changed forever. To get a fix on what happened when ‘Manchester Happened’...
Read MoreIf you were to set a murder mystery in Harrogate then its crime writing festival would offer the perfect setting for a puckish postmodern whodunnit. Legions of book fans with murder in mind descend on a sun-kissed spa town at...
Read MoreIt’s a sun-splashed Tuesday morning 72 hours from Peterloo day. I’m at the Kim by the Sea café in regenerated Hulme. As the 200-year anniversary of Manchester’s great dark day approaches, there’s an uncertain look in...
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