
What’s it like inside THG, one of Manchester’s biggest - and weirdest - companies?
‘There was a DJ about three metres away from my ear playing house music and loads of 21-year-olds running around drinking prosecco’
‘There was a DJ about three metres away from my ear playing house music and loads of 21-year-olds running around drinking prosecco’
Plus: Joshi chats to Mike Emmerich about whether academics are doing the city down - and the Portico announces some exciting news
Plus: the story behind a 1972 photo from Moss Side
‘It feels like the end of days’
‘A bunch of undergraduates who wear gowns and have chapel — it’s not exactly the flavour of the month is it?’
A company with links to the Chancellor of the University of Manchester offers ‘government backed’ returns of 10% a year. Do the sums add up?
Madeline Linford is remembered as the first female member of the Guardian’s editorial board. But her 1930 book is witty and devastating
Plus: A great festive concert and Man City’s owner is buying the Telegraph
Whole neighbourhoods in the south of the city have become university dormitories.
Ashton is losing its pool. Withington Baths survived and is thriving. What does it take to keep these treasured local amenities afloat?
Anthony Burgess 30 years on
The New Statesman exposes a worrying trend. Plus: We’re hiring!
‘People in positions of responsibility are doing the right thing. But the tensions are out there in the neighbourhoods’
‘It’s the internet and famously you can’t trust everybody all the time’
Plus: Should some of the income tax raised in Greater Manchester be kept here?
Plus: Gary Neville’s new development will be home to the city’s most expensive flat