And so the advert for Dinosaur World Live, served up by a social media algorithm, should have set my eye twitching. Nope. I ...

Manchester has long been the locus of world-shattering political meetings, from Marx and Engels writing the Communist ...

Adam Farrer, author of Broken Biscuits and Other Male Failures, listens patiently and nods. I’m interviewing him about his ...

When Yorkshire-born Kieran Hodgson joined the cast of BBC Scotland’s hit comedy series Two Doors Down, he decided to go “all in” and relocate with his partner to Glasgow. The move north of the border ...

Theatre Review: Murder on the Orient Express, The Lowry, SalfordYou know that thing where you buy a new blue mini and all you see for days are new blue minis? Or you have a baby and suddenly the world ...

During lockdown, retail manager Aiden Ryan wanted to use his time constructively. Armed with only a whisk and a dream, first-time baker Ryan decided to try his hand at cake-making with a view to ...

As someone born in the late 1990s, women exploring their own sexuality and finding freedom within themselves feels like a fairly new concept. But I realise that it’s not new, and is also something ...

And a big hats off to the lighting crew who took each performance to infinity and beyond. The lighting was a major stand-out: floodlights of warm yellow, shining into the crowd during moments of ...

Two decades have passed since Martin Isherwood wrote the UK’s 2003 Eurovision entry, Cry Baby, with support from his colleague, musician Mel Purves. Now, with less than a month to go until Eurovision ...

The team at Manchester Literature Festival does a heck of a good job. The cynical might think it’s about shifting a load of hardback books, but MLF puts a great deal of thought into its authors and ...

“I think that was part of it. Part of it is that he was one for an easy life as well – he wasn’t one for pushing it. No, I think he just let his work stand for itself. He didn’t feel the need to ...

Julia and Axel: Thirty Years of Favourite Stories celebrates the professional partnership between Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler. Together, they have created some of the world’s best-loved and ...