🧵The oldest building on Union Street isn't Forsyth House/Union Corner (1851), which burned down last Sunday, or the ornate Egyptian Halls (1871)
It's the Rennie Mackintosh Station Hotel, which now houses homeless people.
This IS good, it’s a better read on the issues facing universities than the vast majority of stuff one sees in the national press. I don’t know how this Manc outfit does it, but it’s really impressive.
This is excellent reporting which deftly demonstrates the weaknesses and loopholes in Companies House, before you even get to opaque trusts in overseas territories!
Attempting to track down the owner of 105 Union Street - where Sunday's city centre fire is believed to have started - has taken The Bell from Pollokshaws to South Lanarkshire, and given us insight into a retail sector regulated in the loosest sense of the word.
But we think we've done it anyway.
"Burnham has consistently called for greater government accountability... Having to be forced by journalists to release a report into how the GMCA lends hundreds of millions of pounds of public money to developers would appear at odds with that".
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Update on our libel case 🚨 - the businessman suing us didn’t turn up to the high court for the first hearing. Judge was unimpressed with his medical evidence.
Fighting these threats to journalism in the UK is frustrating and expensive but we will win.
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An update from @joshih.bsky.social on our libel case
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Anyone in #leeds I'd recommend taking a look at the new local newspaper from the folks behind #TheMill in Manchester:
https://leeds.ghost.io/welcome-to-leeds-new-paper/?ref=manchestermill.co.uk
Leeds folk, just wanted to put this on your radar. The Birmingham/West Midlands version (The Dispatch) is doing good and interesting work hereabouts.
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“being a regular Mill reader is one of Ivison’s obvious virtues”
Well, he is a Political Philosopher.
Why are there SO many fires destroying historical buildings in Glasgow? Tonight’s tragedy is just the latest.
@glasgowbell.bsky.social mapped them. ‘With every conflagration there are whispers that there’s slightly more to things than meets the eye’.
www.glasgowbell.co.uk/tinderbox-fi...
The tightknit, secretive gaggle of thespians and playwrights in Sheffield know the world of theatre can be cliquey.
But three recent hires have insiders suggesting it might be worse than previously thought. www.sheffieldtribune.co.uk/it-looks-rea...
New bike lanes. Big investment. Serious questions 🚴
Our latest newsletter explores Leeds’ new cycling infrastructure - who it’s for, what it costs, and whether it will work.
We cycled from Bradford to Leeds to work out what’s going on.
Click the link below and have a read 👇
Today we profile the man who may have the most important job in Manchester. Duncan Ivison runs one of the country's biggest universities, but he faces "tanking" international applications and the threat of AI.
Can his new style of leadership work?
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Over the past few months, I've been meeting Duncan Ivison, who in my view has the most important job in Manchester. I wanted to ask the vice chancellor of @officialuom.bsky.social about its reliance on China, the threat of AI and its relationship to the city.
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🚨 GOOD NEWS: we’re hiring staff writers in Birmingham and Glasgow 🚨
These are full time roles in which you get proper time to do quality work. You will write ~1 story per week, working with phenomenal @millmedia.bsky.social editors.
Applications close soon. Please share 🙏
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🚨🚨 We’re hiring staff writers in Glasgow and Birmingham - please tell your talented friends to apply this weekend.
millmediaco.uk/jobs/
Profit or Nonprofit? A Debate over Journalism’s Future. @joshih.bsky.social of Mill Media and Vanan Murugesan of the Sahan Journal join @emilybell.bsky.social and Heather Chaplin on this week's Journalism 2050. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/p...
🚨 It looks like we might be hiring very soon. If you’re a journalist in Leeds, Bradford, Wakefield, Huddersfield or Halifax - or you grew up there and want to move back - please contact @djstimms.bsky.social with haste. As soon as we hit 500 we can hire.
Oh goodness, yes please! Leeds is absolutely crying out for a @millmedia.bsky.social type newspaper. Please consider supporting...
🚨We're hiring!🚨
The Bell is hiring another full-time staff reporter to join our team. We're looking for someone ambitious & tenacious, who is willing to knock lots of doors. Our journalism is in-person & on-the-ground.
Click the link below for more details.
At long last, we’re launching in Leeds! Ever since I started The Mill, people have asked us to create a publication across the Pennines.
If 500 people pledge to become members, we’re going to hire two journalists and do it. Please share with Leeds friends.
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We’re launching a new independent newspaper for Leeds - funded by readers.
If you want better local journalism in Leeds, this is how it starts.
👉 Pledge your support: leeds.ghost.io
Manchester Mill find the small group of Reform activists includes several with v overt prejudices. They fairly note that Goodwin can't be expected to vet them all in advance. To date, the site report he is not willing to criticise ant of it once revealed either
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EXCLUSIVE: Reform UK just broke electoral law in Gorton and Denton.
The party confirmed they sent out campaign materials without proper party imprint, something it insists was a mistake.
Wow - @manchestermill.bsky.social catches Reform UK sending fake letters to residents without saying they’re from Matt Goodwin’s campaign, a glaring breach of electoral law.
Looks like the effectiveness of electoral law may be facing a test:
manchestermill.co.uk/exclusive-re...
@manchestermill.bsky.social really does some extraordinary work.
Here's the thing about @millmedia.bsky.social: our fearless editors allow us to publish incredibly important work - like @liverpoolpost.bsky.social stories on Laurence Westgaph.
Now @londonermag.bsky.social is up against a property scammer. Support us below 👇
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Proud to work for @millmedia.bsky.social, a media organisation that stands up to bullies who try to silence our reporting through legal action.
@sheffieldtribune.bsky.social stood up to Andrew Milne, now our sister title @londonermag.bsky.social is up against a property scammer. Support us below 👇
