Golden cars, fireworks and pure joy in Rusholme

Plus: we sent Jack Dulhanty on his hardest assignment yet – learning how to perform standup

Dear Millers — given the amount of incredibly newsy pieces we’ve published recently, we figured it was time for a spot of rest and relaxation: today, we’re taking you out on the Curry Mile. The Mill’s first-ever photographer, Sharmaine Entwistle, went to document the Pakistan Independence Day celebrations last weekend and the result is an absolute feast for the eyes, if we say so ourselves.

🚨 Calling all Jack Dulhanty enthusiasts 🚨 If you know anything about Jack, you’ll know that he’s the Mill journalist behind some of our most popular longreads (eg. “Simon Martin is Manchester’s best chef. Is he its worst boss?”; “Does the Manchester Evening News have questions to answer about its coverage of a controversial trial?”; “When will Moss Side get a chance to mourn?”) — and that most of those longreads are incredibly painful and sad. You might, understandably from this, assume he’s a maudlin sort who doesn’t know a knock-knock joke from a Stewart Lee sketch. But he’s actually a finely-tu…