Journalist up north. Founder of @millmediauk. Slide into my DMs or via Signal (joshih.88).
Manchester, England
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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…
Excited for tomorrow’s inaugural @ManchesterMill Future of Greater Manchester summit, featuring the mayor, the uni vice chancellor and lots of big names from across the city.
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To everyone affected by today’s Telegraph cuts, I have great sympathy, losing a job on a Friday must feel a double whammy.
There’s understandably been lots of discussion about high-profile journalists like Amol Rajan and Marina Hyde building their own media businesses. /1
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Emotional exit by Michael Carrick as fans sing his name. A farewell?
Supporters turn on players once Carrick down tunnel.
#MUFC
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Hard to see how Berrada survives this too. He’s the ceo of an organisation that has got almost every football decision wrong since he’s been in the building. Apparently hired because he had expertise across both commercial and football.
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This is moment of maximum danger for Reform. You can broadly split current Reform voters into 2 groups - true believers & 'just want a right wing govt'. The second are much more transactional & if the Tories start to look like the vehicle to defeat Labour they'll go back to them
Conservatives overtake Reform for the first time since January 2025 in our poll tracker. Labour still rising economist.com/interactive/20…
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The announcement of a brand spanking new station in Bradford this week was delivered with excitement.
But plenty were confused: what actually was being announced? Officials have danced around the elephant in the room since as well. Bradford Interchange is a dead end.
@GarethDennis tells us a through-station isn't viable at that location, and he has plenty more to say too.
#NPR #Railways
theexchange.news/will-bradfo…
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One detail I can't get over from this @_TheLondoner story is that this is the actual blurb of a real book by a big-time BookTok author, who quite recently was given a huge Netflix deal.
Free to read: the-londoner.co.uk/london-ro…
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More grim industry news 🙁
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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