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

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

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

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 ...

Cotton twists its way through the North. Here, fibres and patterns are embedded in the surfaces and stories that create social fabric and identity. And they can be found, woven delicately, into the ...

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 ...

My first visit to Shakespeare North in Prescot felt oddly close to home. It’s not far from where I grew up, though Prescot itself always felt like another world. Jim Cartwright’s Two has also ...

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 ...

There’s an episode of the 90s hit comedy Father Ted where the lads on Craggy Island are visited by Father Damian Lennon, a young Dublin priest and pound-shop Liam Gallagher, who you know is rebellious ...

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 ...