Less than one in eighteen Greater Manchester Police officers are disciplined for proven acts of misconduct, figures obtained by MULE suggest.
Their credo is simple: “Do well with nothing, do better with little and do it right now!” Siobhan McGuirk reports on the Manchester cell of an international movement.
How much does the Council spend on PR? To hazard a guess, it’s more than they spend on ‘Democratic Services’, judging by the astonishing inefficiency that particular department demonstrates when dealing with Freedom of Information (FOI) requests. On 13 January MULE tried to find out how much, via this avenue. The ‘information’ came back on […]
On Saturday Manchester Anti-Deportation (MAD) Coalition had a vibrant launch as they held their first public meeting. On the agenda was how to build a practical network capable of preventing deportations as well as launching broader campaigns in the fight for migration justice.
On 27 July the Academies Act 2010 came into force, beginning a radical overhaul of England’s education system. The Act allows any school to apply to become an Academy, a government-funded school able to opt out from local educational authority (LEA) control and operate independently. Education Secretary Michael Gove told the Commons that the plan […]
A year after the announcement that talks were under way to move the National Football Museum to Manchester, and the subsequent closure of the Urbis art gallery where it will be housed, a former employee of Urbis wrote to us to express their thoughts on the controversial decision and its aftermath.
Gideon “George” Osborne’s budget has certainly been tough but, asks Tom Fox, is it fair?
