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 joined The Mill in 2022 and writes about the city’s people, from crane drivers and butchers to its leading planners and decision-makers. He was nominated for the 2025 Paul Foot Award.
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How Hopwood DePree fumbled his Hollywood ending
'The council isn't going to invest hundreds of thousands to let an individual have a private B&B'
'We should all hang our heads in shame': On the picket line with Manchester psychologists
Medics and patients alike say Manchester’s mental health services are at a crisis point
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’
You're in an Oasis cover band. What happens now?
Some thought they were screwed — they couldn't have been more wrong
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
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