The barrister with less savings than when she worked at Costa Coffee

'The system is creaking at the edges'

Dear Millers — welcome to this week’s members-only edition. Yesterday we published a sobering story about the media’s failures in reporting the criminal justice system, and today we’ll be hearing about the same system from a different perspective: that of a junior barrister. Also in today’s edition:

• Dani does a roundup for our Mill media picks, including a review of new book Downton Shabby by Hopwood DePree, the man restoring a grand stately home in Middleton.

• A portrait from Longsight’s community by Mexican-British documentary photographer Roxana Allison.

• A whole weekend of indoor and outdoor activities on our to-do list, including an argonaut sculpture, a drum and bass cycle ride, the Rajasthan Heritage Brass Band, the Hale Barns Carnival, and a summer party in Hulme.