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The hinterland of Anthony Burgess

Good morning members — today we have a great piece about the author Anthony Burgess and his Manchester upbringing, by David Barnett. Yesterday we got the weekly GM data for vaccinations and hospitals, so those are in the mini-briefing, plus a heatmap that might show the effect of the vaccine roll-out among the over-65s.

If you think a couple of friends or colleagues might enjoy being Mill members, we are going to repeat the offer we did at Christmas: If you buy one gift membership for a friend, we will throw in a second one free! Just buy the first one, and then email editor@manchestermill with the name and email of the second recipient, and they will get their membership set up too. Just click the button below.

Thanks as always for supporting our work. We’ve just hit 800 members, which means we can now afford to get a little office and make our first graduate hire.

If you fancy joining our members’ Facebook group Millers Talk — which is mostly posts about birds, photos of local toads…