£1,000 sofas, chic bistros and swooning Guardian features: welcome to the hipsterfication of Stockport
‘I don’t know if Stockport is ready for us, but we’re ready for Stockport’
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Mill Interview: Meet the government’s new social mobility tsar - a headteacher from Oldham
The new interim chair of the Social Mobility Commission tells us: ‘If somebody can grow up in Oldham and go to Oxford, that’s fantastic. But that’s only ever going to be very small numbers’
Is Greater Manchester’s controversial housing deal on the brink of collapse?
Plus: Dogs now welcome on Metrolink - and the crisis in local hospitals
‘They sing chants about being vegetarians and eating hummus’
Chorlton’s football ‘yobbos’ are like no other
Let’s just do it ourselves
An end-of-year editor’s note from Joshi - and our favourite stories of 2022
Everyone saw the worst in them - she made them a home
The chaotic mission to give abandoned dogs love and care
Manchester’s best underground bars and my favourite Mill photos of 2022
Jack rounds off his first year in journalism with a writer’s edition
A new tool against the ‘continued and evolving’ terror threat
Plus: Avanti awarded £6.5m by government, and the latest update on the ENO
Looking for the Trafford Centre’s soul
‘During Christmas, it’s hard to step into the Trafford Centre without a sense of foreboding’
Exclusive: Medical director quits as problems mount at the Northern Care Alliance
Chris Brookes oversaw hospitals in Salford, Oldham, Rochdale and Bury
The Royal Exchange’s Christmas show deserves all the praise it’s getting
An unexpected music hall-inspired treat, starring Maxine Peake
‘He’s massively at risk’ — what a by-election this week might mean for Sir Graham Brady
Plus: the ‘cannon fodder’ of Bury New Road, and a review of the Royal Exchange’s newest show
London knows best: How the dead hand of Whitehall strangled Britain
‘The centre has not delivered’ admits Labour, while The Economist calls for the government to ‘Free the North’. But does anyone have the courage to end the capital’s disastrous hoarding of power?