A week on from his infamous performance on Question Time, MULE columnist Ragnor Ironpants weighs up the impact of the Northwest’s favourite Euro-MP’s TV appearance.
Manchester Metropolitan University (MMU) is planning a new development on green space in Hulme. They label the construction the “greenest campus in the UK” and say plans will balance the needs of the local community, but Hulme residents have their doubts.
It’s been over a week since the Tory conference left town. For several days, inside the almost militarised city centre, shadow ministers and carefully briefed mouths gushed ‘honesty’. Manchester didn’t seem to pay that much attention. Manufactured ovations to parts of Cameron’s speech and interviewees practically reading off their hands to emphasise how great Dave is on poverty and ‘our boys’ in Afghanistan weren’t fooling anyone.
Another year, another Annual Party Conference sets up camp in Manchester. The draped banners are not the red we’ve come to expect, however, and this time the selection of Manchester as host is itself politically significant. The Conservatives are coming up North and are seeking to destroy Labour’s last remaining strongholds in the urban centres […]
It’s a week before the official report on the governance consultation is released, but the City Council yesterday revealed that the proposal to give Manchester an elected mayor have been met with a ‘no’ by two thirds of those responding.
Jesus Christ may have been able to feed five thousand hungry punters with a few bits of bread and fish, but do Manchester City Council have the divine powers necessary to spread a handful of new houses around the thousands of people in the city in need of a place to live?
16 August marked the 190th anniversary of the infamous Peterloo Massacre in Manchester. Paul Fitzgerald of the Peterloo Memorial Campaign examines the meaning of how we have, and haven’t, remembered this crucial event.
