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 ...

Looking Up, a loop of Pat Flynn’s CGI-animated shorts, ran to mark the opening of Wonderful Electric, the new digital ...

When Bonnie Raitt was a young girl, she was enthralled by the power and charisma of such blues and folk greats as John Lee ...

Zena Barrie’s terrain is dotted with the illusory pyramids of self-improvement fads, her audience whichever arbitrary ...

The Secret Public: LGBTQ Pop 1955–1985 is at John Rylands Research Institute and Library until November 15, 2025. For more ...

Fran Yeoman is head of journalism at Liverpool John Moores University where she loves putting the next generation of journalists in the North through their paces. Before returning to her native ...

If the UK ever decides to appoint an Anglo-Scottish mediator (and I think that it should), then look no further than Kieran Hodgson. Big In Scotland, the writer and actor’s latest one-man show, is an ...

History is littered with sitcoms transferring unsuccessfully to the stage or film. One of the big problems is that the joke ratio plummets when something that works in a 25-minute format is stretched ...

Ben Nicholson, Birch Craig, Summer c.1930 (left), oil on canvas. Private Collection on loan to the Middlesbrough Collection at MIMA. Ben Nicholson, Cumberland House, 1920s (right), wood and paint.

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 ...

MIF23’s opening night world premiere performed at HOME is an adaptation of a cult fantasy novel written in 1977 by Larry Mitchell and Ned Asia, in which history is reimagined through the lens of the ...