Revealed: The scale of Greater Manchester’s challenge in supporting asylum seekers
Our analysis reveals Manchester, Rochdale, Oldham and Wigan are all accommodating more than twice the average number of asylum seekers per population
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‘Pretend art, meaningless, obscene’: How a radical gallery shocked 1980s Rochdale
It set out to end ‘the domination of art by a white middle-class male audience’ and it inspired devotion among fans and artists. But was the town ready for it?
Is finding love in Manchester really this easy?
Saying ‘I love you’ on a first date... and not being ghosted
My return to Levenshulme - and the rise of Manchester’s former townships
Phil Griffin explores the neighbourhood where he grew up
Why was untreated sewage poured into the river at Crumpsall for 93 days last year?
The river described by Engels as a ‘foul-smelling stream’ is being befouled again, new data shows
‘A snapshot of 70s Britain’: Why does Manchester have so few black leaders?
Plus: How Manchester became the nightlife capital of the UK, again
What you missed at the first Mill Members Club
The ‘conflicted’ PR supremo and the stories behind our journalism
The Guardian apologises for its ‘awful history’ after identifying historic links to slavery
‘Our founder and those who funded him drew their wealth from a practice that was a crime against humanity’
The disappearing ‘Manc’ accent: How outsiders changed the way Mancunians speak
Plus: Graham Brady duped by activist group, and the story of Mason Greenwood at Manchester United
How ‘historic’ is Andy Burnham’s new deal with the government?
‘It’s not even explaining it to an alien that would be hard, it’s explaining it to any citizen of Western Europe’
Competing for a prestigious role at the Hallé, the first challenge is to keep calm
‘I faced the fact that, okay, I don’t like that I’m nervous, that I’m feeling this; it’s not very pleasant. But I have to be my own friend’
Andy Burnham is about to get more powers - and face more scrutiny
Plus: The Manchester residents paying for mortgages on uninhabitable flats
A generation of journalists is being wasted in the content mines. I was one of them. My clickbait days are over.
My almost-two years as a millennial media cliche
Manchester International Festival says: go big or go home
Plus: Is criticising clickbait now ‘snobby’ and ‘sexist’?
Undercover agents, sports cars and an Oldham flat: the fall of a people-smuggling kingpin
Plus: An Altrincham design studio tastes glory at the Oscars
Tories beware: Graham Brady is quitting parliament - and preparing his memoirs
The influential chair of the 1922 Committee speaks to The Mill after announcing his surprise retirement from politics. But why is he leaving now?