Whistle Down The Wind by Nancy Collantine is at UNITOM, Manchester until September 5, 2026. For more information, click here ...

Happiness! in this instance is an exhibition which seeks to encapsulate the contradictions and idiosyncrasies of Ken Dodd, ...

“I really want it to be normal for people to go to the opera.” ...

Ai Weiwei, whose monumental works currently loom large over the hangar-like warehouse space at Manchester’s Factory ...

On a showery Saturday afternoon with the sound of thunder echoing in my ears, I set off to Manchester’s Red Bank to sample ...

There’s an art to parting, a chance to frame the end credits on one’s own terms.

For those interested in history and espionage, Antonia Senior’s highly compelling new book, Stalin’s Apostles, is a ...

So near and yet so far. You know that thing where in New York people say you turn a corner and you’re in a completely ...

There’s an episode of the 90s hit comedy Father Ted where the lads on Craggy Island are visited by ...

As we approach the end of 2025, we’re looking back at the things that have brought us immense comfort during the year. For the team at Northern Soul, books were once again a source of great joy, and ...

Bernard Butler is at pains not to be misconstrued. This interest in (and poetic appreciation of) the bucolic is, by Butler‘s own acknowledgement, a more recent awakening; one which he describes in ...

As I explain the plot of The Pied Piper of Hamelin to my 13-year-old niece, I watch her expression turn to horror. “Well, there’s this piper who is asked to rid a town of a rat infestation. He plays ...