The English love a posh eccentric. Romance novelist Barbara Cartland was as posh as they come and more eccentric than most.

“Make Egypt great again,” boomed the pharaoh from the stage of the Lyceum theatre. Parents in the packed audience of ...

Nevertheless, in lieu of The Odyssey, I visited a new Greek eatery in Salford to spend a couple of hours musing over a ...

Happily, Surinderella, ushering in the solstice season with Blackpool’s illuminations only recently lit, makes the most of ...

With Kasia visiting Japan frequently to source her product, ensuring its quality and authenticity, Suzume often holds sake ...

The roots of Little Shop of Horrors are long and deep: it’s an oft-revived stage musical, freely adapted from a cult classic ...

The English love a posh eccentric. Romance novelist Barbara Cartland was as posh as they come and ...

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 ...

The Shawshank Redemption is a play about toxic masculinity. So far, so zeitgeist. But it is also a play about the best of manhood: friendship, loyalty, resilience and hope. It is a story that much of ...

There’s a painting at the heart of From Here To Here To Here, part way through a decade of Louise Giovanelli’s collected works, and it looks a lot like Blackpool. Light glistens across the liquid gold ...

Manchester Film Festival closes with exactly the right kind of film. Not something inflated for the sake of a finale, but a work that catches hold of one of the festival’s deeper currents. California ...

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. “I haven’t done a show for ...