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“It wouldn’t be allowed today, would it?” he says. “It’s so sexist, but we just needed that money!” @SophEAtkinson met Letter to Brezhnev writer Frank Clarke ahead of watching his lively @RoyalCourtLiv adaptation of the 1985 rom-com. livpost.co.uk/brezhnevs-back…
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So we sent the indomitable @SophEAtkinson to find out, grilling the residents of one particular Liverpool — in New York state — on their lives in the other 'Pool. Enjoy!
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Manchester’s Central Library was once considered the British Library of the North. Did a miscalculation in shelving during renovation mean it had to chop a huge fraction of its non-fiction collection? I spent a year obsessing about a rumour from the 2010s tinyurl.com/ynsyvy2t
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I recently wrote about one man's plan to build a 51 metre high folly next to the M6.
English eccentric, tragi-comic visionary, or highly sponsored Christian conservative? I couldn't make my mind up.
Read it below.
birminghamdispatch.co.uk/ric…
are you based in glasgow...or are you elsewhere and simply enjoy a perfect Yarn. May i direct you to today's @theglasgowbell's look at how beef over fencing in Cathkin Park has escalated to court battles; a loo civil war and manspreading allegations 💯 shorturl.at/a8KUw
Wrote about retrofitting, which has been sold to us as a luxury extra - but is inevitable, and something that needs to happen at scale!! Especially in Manchester, for all the reasons the article outlines...
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These are pictures of the conditions at two new blocks of flats in Barking.
The firms that built them were given tens of millions in contracts by the council to do so, after giving expensive gifts and even jobs to councillors.
The council called it a "non-story". Do you agree?
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This is one of the wildest stories we’ve ever published: two senior university executives agreeing a deal to divert student fee money from a partner in Casablanca to a company that one of them owns. The uni hasn’t denied the claims, which we’ve passed to the police.
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My investigation in today’s @liverpoolpost reveals how the city’s biggest cultural institution ignored allegations of sexual and domestic violence against its resident historian, Laurence Westgaph 🧵
livpost.co.uk/p/laurence-wes…
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This PR man Joseph Wheeler's company has been paid £8.2m over the past six years and he seems to have acquired enormous power.
“How has he been allowed to run an entire university?” one senior staff member asks.
manchestermill.co.uk/univers… @ManchesterMill
verrrry specific query that i thought would be easy to figure out but am hitting a wall with: who is the uk's leading experts on libraries? who would have a good overview of how british library and other big libraries across the country have evolved over recent decades?
They wore spandex. They did a workout routine on camera. They smashed their fundraising target - but who were these uniquely generous donors? @jackdulhanty on the jazzercise fundraising miracle of 2020 is unmissable shorturl.at/KKcUR
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🚨New on @_TheLondoner: David Lammy's special advisor Ben Judah wrote a strange and disturbing book about London, littered with racial stereotypes, implausible quotes and obvious falsehoods. How did it get published?
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Highly commended for our investigation into the scandal of exempt accommodation at the @pressgazette #BritishJournalismAwards 🥳
@abi_whist @pennycenturyy @joshi @millmediauk
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EXCL: Landlord and Labour MP Bayo Alaba recently evicted a mother of two, making her homeless.
The former councillor rented his properties to the council he served on to be used as homeless accomidation.
My scoop for @_TheLondoner
the-londoner.co.uk/labour-ba…
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For my first @_TheLondoner story, I went back to uni
the-londoner.co.uk/goldsmith…
enjoyed all of @mlothianmclean’s essay on dating in london, but the pirate anecdote said it all,,,you know the pickings are slim when someone talks to you like jack sparrow in real life & you go home with them anyway. Full essay here: shorturl.at/Ii8us
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I haven't been single or lived in London for ages but reading @mlothianmclean's hilarious/horrifying dating essay that line from When Harry Met Sally comes to mind: Tell me I'll never have to be out there again.
the-londoner.co.uk/fear-and-…
"In other words, if you don’t reproduce you’d better produce, and vice versa." Great review of 'Mother State' by @AnnaCoatman in Frieze today. frieze.com/article/mother-st…
