Journalist up north. Founder of @millmediauk. Slide into my DMs or via Signal (joshih.88).
Manchester, England
Joined May 2010
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I’ve been writing about Andy Burnham in Manchester for a while. We’ve had a few run-ins but I think he has qualities that many people don’t appreciate and weaknesses that spell trouble.
I wrote this for @ManchesterMill - I hope it’s insightful and fair.
manchestermill.co.uk/stop-lo…
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🔴 Sad to say that Hyphen’s parent company is consulting on shutting the website and laying off all of its staff, including me.
It’s obviously devastating news for a superb team whose journalism has had real impact this week alone. I’m so proud to have worked alongside them. 🧵
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For weeks, I've wondered who has filled the tube with thousands of ads about pig gassing and disgusting farmed salmon.
For @_TheLondoner I found out the multimillion pound campaign is being bankrolled by a strange, AI-obsessed movement in Silicon Valley.
the-londoner.co.uk/tube-ads-…
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I'm sure you've seen the thousands of ads about gassing pigs or lice-infected salmon that now plaster the tube. They're costing £400,000 every few weeks.
So who's paying for it? And how does it relate to a strange Silicon Valley movement fixated on AI?
the-londoner.co.uk/tube-ads-…
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- @RMCunliffe
“I am a Jewish woman being called antisemitic. I don’t think you would sit here & lecture somebody of any other religion or race on what counted as bigotry or racism towards them in the way you have explicitly called me antisemitic..I don’t think you would do that
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🚨 NEW: Andy Burnham has announced people on buses who vape, play loud music, litter or threaten others will face £100 fines from today
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EXCL: HMV is being forced out of its Oxford Street flagship store after its landlord doubled the rent.
For @_TheLondoner I found out it's owned by the family of a billionaire Chinese "king of mahjong" who will turn it into a viral immersive gift shop.
the-londoner.co.uk/oxford-st…
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One of the oddest details of this story was a tangential controversy about a romance novel featuring a character who is the "heir" of a KKK chapter. Written by a British author.
Backlash notwithstanding, it has a 4.25 rating on Goodreads!
Never seen this show but this is a really lovely piece.
The comedians started Gone Fishing to recover from heart problems. They talk about the healing power of chat, Ted the dog — and the songs they want at their funerals thetimes.com/culture/tv-radi…
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After this week's @Railnatter, I've had the pleasure of writing up my proposals for an extensive Leeds (and West Yorkshire) Metro for @leeds_exchange - if you want maps, we've got maps! If you want an explanation of repeat station designs, it's here! Are trams good enough? No!
ALT a line diagram of multiple metro lines linking Leeds, Bradford, Wakefield and Huddersfield and everywhere in between. it looks sexy as hell.
Fittingly, the comments are also long reads
One of the things I’ve always found weird is how reticent the architects of the very successful Manchester project are to engage in public debate.
Today one of the big brains of (real) Manchesterism takes aim at its critics. Including The Mill..
manchestermill.co.uk/in-defe…
Horrendous. I think “destroyed in a nighttime arson attack” (@nytimes) is more accurate than “caught fire”.
This is the moment a town hall collapsed as protests sweep across France.
The 140-year-old town hall in the French city of Limoges caught fire during protests in the city
Read the latest on the Sky News website and app: trib.al/NIosgeW
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For years, people have been asking me about "Bradford Crossrail" and my response has always been "I need to think about that strategically, not just because it might look nice on a map".
Well, now I've looked at it. You do need a tunnel under Bradford, but not like *that*:
ALT A map showing a pair of new bored tunnels under the centre of Bradford, with an eastern portal on the Leeds side of a new underground station at St James - adjacent to the proposed high speed station - and a northern portal adjacent to the current position of Forster Square station. There's a new underground station right in the middle of Bradford at Centenary Square, and a spur linking southwards towards Halifax. Both old stations at Forster Square and Interchange are abandoned as part of these plans, with land value capture from the sale of the sites being used to contribute to project costs.
One of the things I’ve always found weird is how reticent the architects of the very successful Manchester project are to engage in public debate.
Today one of the big brains of (real) Manchesterism takes aim at its critics. Including The Mill..
manchestermill.co.uk/in-defe…
Big piece defending Manchester's entanglements with Abu Dhabi. One of the targets of criticism: The Mill.
In defence of Manchester’s Abu Dhabi deals
@emmerich_mike, an ally of Sir Howard Bernstein, argues that critics of Manchester’s economic model are rewriting history.
manchestermill.co.uk/in-defe…
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The Liverpool Street Guardians have attracted praise and condemnation since they began patrolling the city at night. With sexual assault increasing across Merseyside, is the rise of volunteer groups like this inevitable — or is there a political agenda? livpost.co.uk/the-liverpool-…
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Spent the morning wishing I got more cups of tea with Pat Karney
A giant of Manc politics who treated me with the same mix of goodwill and scepticism as I did him. Which is as it should be
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BREAKING: Reform UK has suspended two of its Leeds Councillors, The Exchange understands.
We've heard in the last half hour from two sources that the duo are set to launch their own independent group, Leeds First.
#Politics #Reform #ReformUK #Leeds #LocalGovernment
theexchange.news/breaking-re…
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Objectively hilarious that my return to @liverpoolpost pages has me as a beekeeper - fully suited up and duct-taped in. Excellent stuff.
Read my update on Liverpool's ill-feted botanical collection (and laugh at pics at my expense etc etc):
livpost.co.uk/we-campaigned-…
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I've covered a lot of noise complaints and licensing hearings. This is by far the weirdest.
My report for @_TheLondoner is a saga of a dead dog, council conspiracies, racist emails, public defecation and a venue that wasn’t the community space it seemed.
the-londoner.co.uk/east-lond…
