The Mill
Bad hospitality: Working in Manchester’s bars and restaurants - and not getting paid for it
‘You just said you can’t pay us but you’re going to sit in front of us and eat £200 sushi?’
‘Hell on earth’: was anywhere more hated than the Manchester of 200 years ago?
Historical voices tell us that even Liverpool — yes, Liverpool — was considered equivalent to a rest cure after too much time in this cursed city
Revealed: the best place in Manchester to be a tree
Why are most of our protected trees in the south of the city? Plus: Gary Neville on foreign investment, and our weekly to do list
Does the Greater Manchester experiment work for Oldham?
In this town, bad economics breeds bad politics
‘Everything is tenser than it seems’: the culture war descends on Dunham Massey
A trigger warning about an almost-invisible figure in a painting is confusing visitors at the National Trust property
Stranded at sea for six days, without water for two, Yun Ma feared the worst
At a salon in south Manchester, a nail technician recites his Odyssey
Big Tory losses and another Oldham leader deposed: your essential local elections briefing
‘I think Amanda Chadderton might be gone’
A scandal on polling day: Have Stockport Labour broken election law?
A local official admits monitoring the postal votes - and using that information to send activists into a key ward
Locked up and livestreaming: Inside the thriving social media scene of Mancunian prisons
Prison officers ‘can’t or won’t’ monitor illicit smartphone use, which has created a world of YouTubers and TikTok influencers on the prison estate
Last orders in paradise
What do you do after running one of Levenshulme’s greatest pubs for over three decades? Pack your bags and head for the sunshine
The ship caught in a social media storm
Plus: A quirky cottage in Oldham and the rebirth of Northern Soul
First there were conspiracy theories, then there were social media mobs. What would it take for Labour to win Oldham?
Trust has been lost. Amanda Chadderton hopes to win it back
A solution to rowdiness in theatreland: Stop selling bottles of Prosecco with the tickets!
Joshi returns with an editor’s edition about drunken antics at the Palace Theatre, privacy in the modern city and an interview with a leading journalist in Ukraine