Ophira Gottlieb
Ophira is a features writer, and has previously written for the Quietus, the Guardian, and the Fence. She is particularly interested in music and literature.
Meet the man taking on Manchester's 'Christmas Refusniks'
'I would start Christmas in August if I was allowed to'
Some said the BBC had ‘lost its marbles’. But was the move to Salford such a disaster after all?
Over a decade on, we caught up with the London relocators of 2012
Inside Manchester’s tour guide turf wars
Stolen customers, broken flags, physical fights: have the people taking us around Manchester lost their way?
Jews and Muslims in North Manchester: A personal story
‘We thought we were the luckiest people in the world to be born in Manchester’
On their holiest day, Manchester’s Jews face their ‘darkest of moments’
Amid fasting and prayer, terror comes to Crumpsall
The Ardwick art school putting Manchester back in the picture
‘Good things are going on here, if only someone would notice’
After 500 years, has Manchester Grammar School lost its grip on the city?
‘You want to have a nice house and a garden and go skiing, you don’t want to be foreign secretary’
Not a mile and not much curry: things are changing on Wilmslow Road
‘The road is so long, it’s big enough to accommodate everyone’
Catching up with Greater Manchester’s Indian communities
‘We’ve been trying to find unifying elements that allow people to identify as “Indian”, as opposed to what their culture or language dictates’
Backstabbing, crying, and a ‘web of deceit’: Inside the fight to get into Trafford’s grammar schools
‘I love my children more than I love the principle of meritocracy, apparently’
Vogue scorned them, Iran banned them, Manchester still loves them
Inside an abandoned swimming pool turned salon, one hairstyle remains a cut above the rest
Exclusive: The contract that gives Sheikh Mansour first dibs on Manchester
Plus: Mark Garner explains the sudden implosion of his website Confidentials
Backstabbing, crying, and a ‘web of deceit’: Inside the fight to get into Trafford’s grammar schools
‘I love my children more than I love the principle of meritocracy, apparently’