It may sound a little naff, but Manchester is a city I’m genuinely proud to call home. Not least because the city where I was born, and where I still live, has been the backdrop to so many game-changing moments in history. Manchester deserves better than becoming the fall guy because of one man’s misplaced

As seen in the New Statesman (Cont. from pages 1-13)… as V.S. Naipaul once remarked in The Road to Wigan Pier. And so I’ve come North. To see if Leviathan still has legs in a…

City has ‘been the star performer of the UK economy since 2008′