Manchester planning director’s jazzercise for charity raised £50k — from developers
One had filed an application for a controversial tower just before
Jack Dulhanty
Jack has been a staff writer at The Mill since 2022, writing about the city’s people, from crane drivers and butchers to the city’s leading planners and decision-makers.
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Salford
How can Greater Manchester become more flood resilient?
‘What’s going on? Where are the alerts?’
Wrestling with the ghosts of Manchester Town Hall
Behind the scenes of the most ambitious renovation project in living memory
Exclusive: Documents show how Sacha Lord’s company obtained £400,000 of public money during the pandemic
…and that it requested £10,500 of emergency funding - to redesign a website
The Carlton Club saga: The Building Company speaks
‘They are actually squatting in our property, and they’re making money from that’
Village people
Has Didsbury lost its way?
At King of the Ring, violence is the means and the end
‘Remember mate, this is going on YouTube, forever.’
Exclusive: Did the Arts Council allow a woman close to Andy Burnham to assess Sacha Lord’s funding application?
There are serious questions about a conflict of interest at the body that gave Lord’s company over £400,000 of taxpayers’ money
Exclusive: Did Sacha Lord cheat his way to £400,000 of public money during the pandemic?
The Mill has obtained a funding application that makes a series of highly misleading claims about the nature of his business
Tensions over Galloway’s newfound sway in South Manchester boil over
“People are flocking to it”
He complained about late night noise. Then a city-wide row erupted
The saga over Night & Day Cafe has been told as a parable of modern Manchester. But we wanted to speak to the much-maligned man at the heart of it
‘I’m going insane’: My afternoon at Manchester’s anti-woke meetup
Upstairs at a city centre pub, a group of people who worry about being ‘cancelled’ for their heretical views get together to put the world to rights
Last month, Andy Burnham signed a landmark deal with Fujitsu. Then the Post Office scandal erupted
The Japanese company has a major presence and a long history in Manchester. But should the brand new partnership now be cancelled?
The butcher of Moss Side
‘I just love it, you know?’
'What is associated with Deansgate Square is, well, pretty people'
Who are the luxury apartments for?
The powerlessness of Michaela Ali
A pregnant health worker has spent months living in hotels because a social housing provider didn’t repair her rat-infested flat