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Gavin Kelly @gavin-kelly.bsky.social · 3d

Some of the most thoughtful social commentary atm is coming via @manchestermill.bsky.social

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Jews and Muslims in North Manchester: A personal story

‘We thought we were the luckiest people in the world to be born in Manchester’

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Craig Almond @alarmingcod.co.uk · 3d

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

Jews and Muslims in North Manchester: A personal story

‘We thought we were the luckiest people in the world to be born in Manchester’

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A Poor Player @apoorplayer.bsky.social · 3d

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.

Joshi Herrmann @joshiherrmann.bsky.social · 3d

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.

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Jews and Muslims in North Manchester: A personal story

‘We thought we were the luckiest people in the world to be born in Manchester’

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ophira @ophiraophira.bsky.social · 3d

Thank you Dan

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Dan Hayes @danhayesjourno.bsky.social · 3d

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.

Jews and Muslims in North Manchester: A personal story

‘We thought we were the luckiest people in the world to be born in Manchester’

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Emrys Francys @ryaloren.bsky.social · 3d

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.

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Jews and Muslims in North Manchester: A personal story

‘We thought we were the luckiest people in the world to be born in Manchester’

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Carsten Timmermann @ctimmermann.bsky.social · 3d

More great writing via @manchestermill.bsky.social. Nuanced and personal piece on Jewish and Muslim lives in Cheetham Hill, by @ophiraophira.bsky.social

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Jews and Muslims in North Manchester: A personal story

‘We thought we were the luckiest people in the world to be born in Manchester’

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Joshi Herrmann @joshiherrmann.bsky.social · 3d

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...

Jews and Muslims in North Manchester: A personal story

‘We thought we were the luckiest people in the world to be born in Manchester’

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ophira @ophiraophira.bsky.social · 5d

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.

The Mill @manchestermill.bsky.social · 5d

On their holiest day, Manchester’s Jews face their ‘darkest of moments’.

Our story about today’s attack.

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On their holiest day, Manchester’s Jews face their ‘darkest of moments’

Amid fasting and prayer, terror comes to Crumpsall

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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 5d

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.

The Mill @manchestermill.bsky.social · 5d

On their holiest day, Manchester’s Jews face their ‘darkest of moments’.

Our story about today’s attack.

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On their holiest day, Manchester’s Jews face their ‘darkest of moments’

Amid fasting and prayer, terror comes to Crumpsall

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Joshi Herrmann @joshiherrmann.bsky.social · 5d

My colleague @ophiraophira.bsky.social got into a makeshift synagogue nearby and witnessed this amazing scene.

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Coral @coralcaprels.bsky.social · 25d

On ‘how to paint’ and keeping artists in Mcr & the north.

Really love this idea, initiative and article from @manchestermill.bsky.social

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The Ardwick art school putting Manchester back in the picture

‘Good things are going on here, if only someone would notice’

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The Mill @manchestermill.bsky.social · Jul 14

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.

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’

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Joshi Herrmann @joshiherrmann.bsky.social · Jul 13

Biiig old conversation about grammar schools in Trafford - including some really meaningful stories - going on under this fantastic piece by @ophiraophira.bsky.social

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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’

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The Mill @manchestermill.bsky.social · Jun 24

🧵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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Joshi Herrmann @joshiherrmann.bsky.social · Jun 24

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..

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Some say the Hotspur Press is Manchester's oldest mill. Does it matter?

'You cannot convert that building. I can’t emphasise that enough'

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ophira @ophiraophira.bsky.social · Jun 11

I went along to the Morrissey gig on Saturday to write a piece about the fans, the FANS, not Mozz himself

The Mill @manchestermill.bsky.social · Jun 11

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.

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ophira @ophiraophira.bsky.social · Jun 9

3/3 You can read the whole piece (and the discussion in the comments) here:

The Chippy King of Bolton has bigger fish to fry

‘I’m still optimistic. Not about Bolton. I’m optimistic about my business’

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ophira @ophiraophira.bsky.social · Jun 9

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ophira @ophiraophira.bsky.social · Jun 9

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...

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ophira @ophiraophira.bsky.social · May 19

Or read it here! @manchestermill.bsky.social

Meet the Showmen of Bolton

'We want to move somewhere where the air’s fresher anyway'

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ophira @ophiraophira.bsky.social · May 19

You can listen to it here...

Meet the Showmen of Bolton

The Manchester Weekly from The Mill · Episode

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ophira @ophiraophira.bsky.social · May 19

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...

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ophira @ophiraophira.bsky.social · May 19

This is very good

The Observer @theobserveruk.bsky.social · May 16

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:

‘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?

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The Mill @manchestermill.bsky.social · May 17

@ophiraophira.bsky.social went to meet Bolton's fairground workers for our weekend read.

Read it here!

Meet the Showmen of Bolton

'We want to move somewhere where the air’s fresher anyway'

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