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Remembering my dad through photos of Hulme’s weird and wonderful nightlife
‘You know how you and your pals are always the coolest, maddest people you know in the world?’
More scrutiny for Manchester’s taxpayer-backed luxury flats
Plus, experimental theatre at the White Hotel and a talk about Manchester’s role in developing radio astronomy
Wrestling with the ghosts of Manchester Town Hall
Behind the scenes of the most ambitious renovation project in living memory
Catching up with Manchester’s first openly trans councillor
‘Sometimes politics happens to you, whether you have a choice or not’
Manchester’s hottest new LGBTQ club night brings generations together
Partying with 500 lesbians, aged 18 to 70
Greater Manchester’s infamous climate could be the key to preserving British trees
Plus, the city’s most ruthless landlord talks about his secret hospitality workers-only nights
Exclusive: Documents show how Sacha Lord’s company obtained £400,000 of public money during the pandemic
…and that it requested £10,500 of emergency funding - to redesign a website
Amid horrific conflict and trauma, a Lancashire doctor tries to make a difference
Dispatches from a anaesthetist’s year working in field hospitals in Gaza
Are Greater Manchester graduates missing out?
Plus: the Bee Network gets more punctual, but still misses targets
The Carlton Club saga: The Building Company speaks
‘They are actually squatting in our property, and they’re making money from that’
At Manchester’s African and Caribbean social clubs, dominoes are both leisure and lifeline
‘The reason why we come is to feel at ease with ourselves for even an hour, because we tried to set the world right’
My thwarted plan to buy the Observer
Joshi writes about a big media deal and the long-running investigation into Sacha Lord’s company
Is Manchester Airport really that bad?
Plus, the forgotten ‘French rose from Manchester’ who inspired Proust
