ophira
@ophiraophira.bsky.social
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Nice hommage to the 192 bus by @ophiraophira.bsky.social:
The bus route that became a cornerstone of Mancunian life manchestermill.co.uk/192-manchest...
The bus route that became a cornerstone of Mancunian life manchestermill.co.uk/192-manchest...
How the 192 became Manchester’s muse
The bus route that became a cornerstone of Mancunian life
manchestermill.co.uk
November 15, 2025 at 9:07 AM
Nice hommage to the 192 bus by @ophiraophira.bsky.social:
The bus route that became a cornerstone of Mancunian life manchestermill.co.uk/192-manchest...
The bus route that became a cornerstone of Mancunian life manchestermill.co.uk/192-manchest...
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This is good from @manchestermill.bsky.social - even if Karney comes across as positively unhinged to the point of being a liability for the Council
Meet the man taking on Manchester's 'Christmas Refusniks'
'I would start Christmas in August if I was allowed to'
manchestermill.co.uk
November 8, 2025 at 9:06 AM
This is good from @manchestermill.bsky.social - even if Karney comes across as positively unhinged to the point of being a liability for the Council
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3. Bit of a jarring shift in tone from the above, but Ophira Gottlieb's Mill piece about the Christmas-obsessed Councillor Pat Kearney is packed with perfect lines of writing.
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manchestermill.co.uk/big-wheel-pa...
Meet the man taking on Manchester's 'Christmas Refusniks'
'I would start Christmas in August if I was allowed to'
manchestermill.co.uk
November 9, 2025 at 8:31 AM
3. Bit of a jarring shift in tone from the above, but Ophira Gottlieb's Mill piece about the Christmas-obsessed Councillor Pat Kearney is packed with perfect lines of writing.
manchestermill.co.uk/big-wheel-pa...
manchestermill.co.uk/big-wheel-pa...
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Inside Manchester's tour guide turf wars.
This may all seem innocent but, behind the scenes, the people in charge of showing other people around Manchester are engaged in a constant turf war, one of stolen customers, destroyed equipment, false reviews, and the occasional physical scrap.
Read the full story by @ophiraophira.bsky.social here
Read the full story by @ophiraophira.bsky.social here
Inside Manchester’s tour guide turf wars
Stolen customers, broken flags, physical fights: have the people taking us around Manchester lost their way?
manchestermill.co.uk
October 9, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Inside Manchester's tour guide turf wars.
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If Bill Forsyth can be persuaded out of retirement for a sequel to COMFORT & JOY, then here's the pitch...
This may all seem innocent but, behind the scenes, the people in charge of showing other people around Manchester are engaged in a constant turf war, one of stolen customers, destroyed equipment, false reviews, and the occasional physical scrap.
Read the full story by @ophiraophira.bsky.social here
Read the full story by @ophiraophira.bsky.social here
Inside Manchester’s tour guide turf wars
Stolen customers, broken flags, physical fights: have the people taking us around Manchester lost their way?
manchestermill.co.uk
October 9, 2025 at 6:22 PM
If Bill Forsyth can be persuaded out of retirement for a sequel to COMFORT & JOY, then here's the pitch...
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This may all seem innocent but, behind the scenes, the people in charge of showing other people around Manchester are engaged in a constant turf war, one of stolen customers, destroyed equipment, false reviews, and the occasional physical scrap.
Read the full story by @ophiraophira.bsky.social here
Read the full story by @ophiraophira.bsky.social here
Inside Manchester’s tour guide turf wars
Stolen customers, broken flags, physical fights: have the people taking us around Manchester lost their way?
manchestermill.co.uk
October 9, 2025 at 3:58 PM
This may all seem innocent but, behind the scenes, the people in charge of showing other people around Manchester are engaged in a constant turf war, one of stolen customers, destroyed equipment, false reviews, and the occasional physical scrap.
Read the full story by @ophiraophira.bsky.social here
Read the full story by @ophiraophira.bsky.social here
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Some of the most thoughtful social commentary atm is coming via @manchestermill.bsky.social
manchestermill.co.uk/jews-and-mus...
manchestermill.co.uk/jews-and-mus...
Jews and Muslims in North Manchester: A personal story
‘We thought we were the luckiest people in the world to be born in Manchester’
manchestermill.co.uk
October 5, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Some of the most thoughtful social commentary atm is coming via @manchestermill.bsky.social
manchestermill.co.uk/jews-and-mus...
manchestermill.co.uk/jews-and-mus...
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After all the bluff and bluster of the last few days online, this is a personal and quietly moving piece on life in North Mancheter.
More quality writing from @manchestermill.bsky.social
More quality writing from @manchestermill.bsky.social
Jews and Muslims in North Manchester: A personal story
‘We thought we were the luckiest people in the world to be born in Manchester’
manchestermill.co.uk
October 5, 2025 at 12:26 PM
After all the bluff and bluster of the last few days online, this is a personal and quietly moving piece on life in North Mancheter.
More quality writing from @manchestermill.bsky.social
More quality writing from @manchestermill.bsky.social
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Once again @manchestermill.bsky.social gets to the heart of a thing. I found this moving but also thought @ophiraophira.bsky.social 's honesty about her response to another community's fear important too.
Jews and Muslims in North Manchester: A personal story.
Fantastic piece by @ophiraophira.bsky.social, who has covered the attack for @manchestermill.bsky.social like no other journalist. Read this alongside the other news coverage.
manchestermill.co.uk/jews-and-mus...
Fantastic piece by @ophiraophira.bsky.social, who has covered the attack for @manchestermill.bsky.social like no other journalist. Read this alongside the other news coverage.
manchestermill.co.uk/jews-and-mus...
Jews and Muslims in North Manchester: A personal story
‘We thought we were the luckiest people in the world to be born in Manchester’
manchestermill.co.uk
October 5, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Once again @manchestermill.bsky.social gets to the heart of a thing. I found this moving but also thought @ophiraophira.bsky.social 's honesty about her response to another community's fear important too.
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If you read one thing today, please make it this by @ophiraophira.bsky.social at @manchestermill.bsky.social.
A moving, honest story about the Crumpsall terrorist attack and the long history of Jews and Muslims in North Manchester.
A moving, honest story about the Crumpsall terrorist attack and the long history of Jews and Muslims in North Manchester.
Jews and Muslims in North Manchester: A personal story
‘We thought we were the luckiest people in the world to be born in Manchester’
manchestermill.co.uk
October 5, 2025 at 1:11 PM
If you read one thing today, please make it this by @ophiraophira.bsky.social at @manchestermill.bsky.social.
A moving, honest story about the Crumpsall terrorist attack and the long history of Jews and Muslims in North Manchester.
A moving, honest story about the Crumpsall terrorist attack and the long history of Jews and Muslims in North Manchester.
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Another exceptional, thought-provoking piece of writing from #themanchestermill.
This is exactly the kind of journalism we should be seeing after events like last week's heinous attack.
manchestermill.co.uk/jews-and-mus...
This is exactly the kind of journalism we should be seeing after events like last week's heinous attack.
manchestermill.co.uk/jews-and-mus...
Jews and Muslims in North Manchester: A personal story
‘We thought we were the luckiest people in the world to be born in Manchester’
manchestermill.co.uk
October 5, 2025 at 1:27 PM
Another exceptional, thought-provoking piece of writing from #themanchestermill.
This is exactly the kind of journalism we should be seeing after events like last week's heinous attack.
manchestermill.co.uk/jews-and-mus...
This is exactly the kind of journalism we should be seeing after events like last week's heinous attack.
manchestermill.co.uk/jews-and-mus...
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More great writing via @manchestermill.bsky.social. Nuanced and personal piece on Jewish and Muslim lives in Cheetham Hill, by @ophiraophira.bsky.social
manchestermill.co.uk/jews-and-mus...
manchestermill.co.uk/jews-and-mus...
Jews and Muslims in North Manchester: A personal story
‘We thought we were the luckiest people in the world to be born in Manchester’
https://manchestermill.co.uk/jews-and-muslims-in-crumpsall-cheetham-hill-manchester-attack/?ref=the-mill-newsletter#sharehttps://www.manchestermill.co.uk/jews-and-muslims-in-crumpsall-cheetham-hill-manchester-attack#share
October 5, 2025 at 1:59 PM
More great writing via @manchestermill.bsky.social. Nuanced and personal piece on Jewish and Muslim lives in Cheetham Hill, by @ophiraophira.bsky.social
manchestermill.co.uk/jews-and-mus...
manchestermill.co.uk/jews-and-mus...
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Jews and Muslims in North Manchester: A personal story.
Fantastic piece by @ophiraophira.bsky.social, who has covered the attack for @manchestermill.bsky.social like no other journalist. Read this alongside the other news coverage.
manchestermill.co.uk/jews-and-mus...
Fantastic piece by @ophiraophira.bsky.social, who has covered the attack for @manchestermill.bsky.social like no other journalist. Read this alongside the other news coverage.
manchestermill.co.uk/jews-and-mus...
Jews and Muslims in North Manchester: A personal story
‘We thought we were the luckiest people in the world to be born in Manchester’
manchestermill.co.uk
October 5, 2025 at 12:18 PM
Jews and Muslims in North Manchester: A personal story.
Fantastic piece by @ophiraophira.bsky.social, who has covered the attack for @manchestermill.bsky.social like no other journalist. Read this alongside the other news coverage.
manchestermill.co.uk/jews-and-mus...
Fantastic piece by @ophiraophira.bsky.social, who has covered the attack for @manchestermill.bsky.social like no other journalist. Read this alongside the other news coverage.
manchestermill.co.uk/jews-and-mus...
The whole Mill team went to Crumpsall yesterday to meet the community affected by yesterday's attack. We spoke with them, and prayed with them - many of whom were so deep in prayer for Yom Kippur, they didn't even know that two people had been murdered just down the road.
On their holiest day, Manchester’s Jews face their ‘darkest of moments’.
Our story about today’s attack.
manchestermill.co.uk/on-their-hol...
Our story about today’s attack.
manchestermill.co.uk/on-their-hol...
On their holiest day, Manchester’s Jews face their ‘darkest of moments’
Amid fasting and prayer, terror comes to Crumpsall
manchestermill.co.uk
October 3, 2025 at 8:20 AM
The whole Mill team went to Crumpsall yesterday to meet the community affected by yesterday's attack. We spoke with them, and prayed with them - many of whom were so deep in prayer for Yom Kippur, they didn't even know that two people had been murdered just down the road.
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Since many of you are distracted by other things or not following any Jewish media, you should know that today, on one of the holiest days of the year, a man drove his car into a crowd gathering to go into a Synagogue in Manchester then got out and started stabbing people. Two people are dead.
On their holiest day, Manchester’s Jews face their ‘darkest of moments’.
Our story about today’s attack.
manchestermill.co.uk/on-their-hol...
Our story about today’s attack.
manchestermill.co.uk/on-their-hol...
On their holiest day, Manchester’s Jews face their ‘darkest of moments’
Amid fasting and prayer, terror comes to Crumpsall
manchestermill.co.uk
October 2, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Since many of you are distracted by other things or not following any Jewish media, you should know that today, on one of the holiest days of the year, a man drove his car into a crowd gathering to go into a Synagogue in Manchester then got out and started stabbing people. Two people are dead.
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My colleague @ophiraophira.bsky.social got into a makeshift synagogue nearby and witnessed this amazing scene.
October 2, 2025 at 8:20 PM
My colleague @ophiraophira.bsky.social got into a makeshift synagogue nearby and witnessed this amazing scene.
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On ‘how to paint’ and keeping artists in Mcr & the north.
Really love this idea, initiative and article from @manchestermill.bsky.social
#apollopaintingschool
manchestermill.co.uk/the-ardwick-...
Really love this idea, initiative and article from @manchestermill.bsky.social
#apollopaintingschool
manchestermill.co.uk/the-ardwick-...
The Ardwick art school putting Manchester back in the picture
‘Good things are going on here, if only someone would notice’
manchestermill.co.uk
September 13, 2025 at 6:22 AM
On ‘how to paint’ and keeping artists in Mcr & the north.
Really love this idea, initiative and article from @manchestermill.bsky.social
#apollopaintingschool
manchestermill.co.uk/the-ardwick-...
Really love this idea, initiative and article from @manchestermill.bsky.social
#apollopaintingschool
manchestermill.co.uk/the-ardwick-...
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How far would you go to get your child to pass the 11-Plus?
For our weekend read, @ophiraophira.bsky.social went deep into the chaotic fight for places at Trafford's Grammar Schools - complete with backstabbing parents and extortionate tutors milking the system.
For our weekend read, @ophiraophira.bsky.social went deep into the chaotic fight for places at Trafford's Grammar Schools - complete with backstabbing parents and extortionate tutors milking the system.
Backstabbing, crying, and a ‘web of deceit’: Inside the fight to get into Trafford’s grammar schools
‘I love my children more than I love the principle of meritocracy, apparently’
manchestermill.co.uk
July 14, 2025 at 11:59 AM
How far would you go to get your child to pass the 11-Plus?
For our weekend read, @ophiraophira.bsky.social went deep into the chaotic fight for places at Trafford's Grammar Schools - complete with backstabbing parents and extortionate tutors milking the system.
For our weekend read, @ophiraophira.bsky.social went deep into the chaotic fight for places at Trafford's Grammar Schools - complete with backstabbing parents and extortionate tutors milking the system.
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Biiig old conversation about grammar schools in Trafford - including some really meaningful stories - going on under this fantastic piece by @ophiraophira.bsky.social
manchestermill.co.uk/backstabbing...
manchestermill.co.uk/backstabbing...
Backstabbing, crying, and a ‘web of deceit’: Inside the fight to get into Trafford’s grammar schools
‘I love my children more than I love the principle of meritocracy, apparently’
manchestermill.co.uk
July 13, 2025 at 11:15 AM
Biiig old conversation about grammar schools in Trafford - including some really meaningful stories - going on under this fantastic piece by @ophiraophira.bsky.social
manchestermill.co.uk/backstabbing...
manchestermill.co.uk/backstabbing...
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🧵Last February we published a piece about the Hotspur Press, in which we referred to the 200-year-old mill as a "famously flammable building" - a timber construction that had notable already caught fire twice in its lifetime.
June 24, 2025 at 5:16 PM
🧵Last February we published a piece about the Hotspur Press, in which we referred to the 200-year-old mill as a "famously flammable building" - a timber construction that had notable already caught fire twice in its lifetime.
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Back in February, @ophiraophira.bsky.social wrote a big piece about the fight over the Hotspur Press. It opens with a story about a fire..
manchestermill.co.uk/some-say-the... @manchestermill.bsky.social
manchestermill.co.uk/some-say-the... @manchestermill.bsky.social
Some say the Hotspur Press is Manchester's oldest mill. Does it matter?
'You cannot convert that building. I can’t emphasise that enough'
manchestermill.co.uk
June 24, 2025 at 6:53 AM
Back in February, @ophiraophira.bsky.social wrote a big piece about the fight over the Hotspur Press. It opens with a story about a fire..
manchestermill.co.uk/some-say-the... @manchestermill.bsky.social
manchestermill.co.uk/some-say-the... @manchestermill.bsky.social
I went along to the Morrissey gig on Saturday to write a piece about the fans, the FANS, not Mozz himself
1/3 “For me, personally, a lot of the stuff he says, I’m just like ‘Steve, take a day off’"
On Saturday night Morrissey stood before an adoring crowd at Co-op Live, bare-chested and swinging flowers, complaining about how sarcasm is now “illegal” in the United Kingdom. He was back.
On Saturday night Morrissey stood before an adoring crowd at Co-op Live, bare-chested and swinging flowers, complaining about how sarcasm is now “illegal” in the United Kingdom. He was back.
June 11, 2025 at 9:12 AM
I went along to the Morrissey gig on Saturday to write a piece about the fans, the FANS, not Mozz himself
1/3 I went to meet Tasos Pattichis - The Chippy King of Bolton, owner of Olympus Fish and Chips - to talk about the changing face of his town.
Our conversation, however, took an unexpected turn when he blamed the demise of Bolton's high street on an influx of refugees...
Our conversation, however, took an unexpected turn when he blamed the demise of Bolton's high street on an influx of refugees...
June 9, 2025 at 11:48 AM
1/3 I went to meet Tasos Pattichis - The Chippy King of Bolton, owner of Olympus Fish and Chips - to talk about the changing face of his town.
Our conversation, however, took an unexpected turn when he blamed the demise of Bolton's high street on an influx of refugees...
Our conversation, however, took an unexpected turn when he blamed the demise of Bolton's high street on an influx of refugees...
I went to meet the Hill family - a family of showmen in Bolton, who are divided on whether or not they should stay in the industrial park they've called home for 50 years.
One member of the family seems particularly hell bent on strong-arming the council into giving them new land...
One member of the family seems particularly hell bent on strong-arming the council into giving them new land...
May 19, 2025 at 11:50 AM
I went to meet the Hill family - a family of showmen in Bolton, who are divided on whether or not they should stay in the industrial park they've called home for 50 years.
One member of the family seems particularly hell bent on strong-arming the council into giving them new land...
One member of the family seems particularly hell bent on strong-arming the council into giving them new land...
This is very good
They came, they sawed. But why?
In a special report, @andrewhankinson goes in search of the motives behind the Sycamore Gap massacre.
You can read his piece now on our website:
In a special report, @andrewhankinson goes in search of the motives behind the Sycamore Gap massacre.
You can read his piece now on our website:
‘It was as if someone had been murdered’: the felling of the Sycamore Gap tree | The Observer
I set out to answer the question a whole nation has been asking: what made two men cut down the Sycamore Gap tree?
bit.ly
May 19, 2025 at 11:07 AM
This is very good