Posted by The Guardian | Oct 25, 2026 | Andy Burnham, Cities, Communities, Football, Gentrification, Greater Manchester, Housing, Local government, Local politics, Manchester, Manchester City, Mayoral elections, Middle East and North Africa, Politics, Regeneration, Sheikh Mansour, Social housing, Society, The Guardian, UK news, United Arab Emirates, Urbanisation, World News |
The story of the emirates’ presence in Manchester winds from the Arab Spring to some of the most deprived places in England – with complicated results Emirati-linked firms’ ownership of Manchester land ‘up 39%’ in 10 yearsWhen...
Read MorePosted by The Guardian | Oct 25, 2026 | British food and drink, Food, Restaurants, The Guardian |
You cannot fake fabulous by simply buying in cool crockery and a freezer full of someone else’s pastryIn my misspent youth, I’d head to Glasgow to watch the likes of Fields of the Nephilim and Hawkwind at the Barrowland...
Read MorePosted by The Guardian | Oct 25, 2026 | Cohabitation, Friendship, Life and style, Middle age, Older people, Society, The Guardian, Women |
Think back to those terrible flatshares in your 20s. Cohabiting with friends can seem like a dream, but the reality is sometimes less Golden Girls – more Young OnesIn most female friendships between women with male partners, the...
Read MorePosted by The Guardian | Oct 24, 2026 | Australian lifestyle, Australian theatre, Dating, Life and style, Relationships, Stage, The Guardian |
Actors Peter Houghton and Anne Browning played lovers onstage, but a shared sense of humour and a magazine horoscope flipped the script on their real-life relationshipFind more stories from the moment I knew seriesAnne and I met...
Read MorePosted by The Guardian | Oct 24, 2026 | Awards and prizes, Baillie Gifford prize for nonfiction, Biography books, Booker prize, Books, Culture, Fiction, Marlon James, The Guardian |
Shortlisted for the Booker and Baillie Gifford prizes respectively, the novelist and biographer talk about working and living together – and giving a voice to Black queer historyThe literary power couple is a historically...
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