Stop looking for Burnhamism - in six years, I’ve never found it
Watching the mayor up close in Manchester, I’ve seen his unusual gifts and glaring weaknesses. Would he make a good prime minister?
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The Casablanca Deal: Secret contracts and unexplained payments at the University of Greater Manchester
EXCLUSIVE: Senior executives at the university tried to divert hundreds of thousands in tuition fees into a private company which one of them owns
It's Europe's most successful new neighbourhood. So why is there so much tension?
New Islington has great sourdough and thousands of happy residents - but some people from the 'real Ancoats' feel like they are being looked down on
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A quiet life on the edge of Manchester
The city's reopening this week brought excitement and optimism. But you don't have to travel far to find Mancunians living in a different world
'Less time shouting into one another’s faces without masks on'
A legal challenge to the new lockdown rules, and the rest of our Monday briefing
Towers on the hill: The dwindling life of Rochdale's 'Seven Sisters'
How an eccentric experiment in social housing ran out of road
Two 17-year-olds grow up in the pandemic
'You’re alone with yourself all the time. You start picking out things about yourself and then it just affects everything about you'
The case for a new newspaper in Manchester
What's happened to local news, and how we can build something better
Exclusive: Arrests made in a major new Rochdale grooming investigation
The Mill learned about the probe this week
