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'
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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?
They want to live together in a co-housing community for over-50s. Can it work?
The group plotting an "intentional community" in south Manchester
The Supreme Court has relocated to Manchester until Thursday. Why should you care?
This marks the first time the Court has sat outside the four UK capital cities
‘They can’t hide behind being MI5’
Arena victims’ families look to sue the security services. Plus: Is Manchester still a 24-hour city?
I didn't think I could be a writer, then The Mill turned up
The year all my Christmases came at once
The best club night you’ve ever been to on a Saturday afternoon
‘Anyone who knows anything about football knows that football is not about football’
Is it time to axe the car park? Addressing our city centre's green space problem
Newcastle has four times as much green space, while Leeds has almost double what we do
Could the Arena attack have been prevented?
Plus: Experimental wine tasting, an independent film festival and a charming terrace in Rusholme
A public footpath by the Irwell re-routed through a hotel lobby? Not anymore
Plus: More political drama in Stockport
