Inevitably at the launch of the hugely impressive Co-op Live with a very entertaining Rick Astley…although some audience members are never going to make lead singers.

Snazzy swimming pool too Viadux, great view of the St John’s Garden’s flats. Good chat with Ian Simpson architect and founder SimpsonHaugh who when I talked about the impressive city centre density of buildings in 2024 compared to 2000, said: “Half way there”. Good chat to

Up with Gods and architects yesterday evening. Thanks to Salboy for viewing Viadux and goggling at Castlefield Viaduct

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Last night’s view 🌃

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Apparently, Manchester City are going one way

'It's the last ten minutes of the final and the underdogs have been awarded a free cake in a dangerous position.' Ah language confusions. My son Oliver and his mum, Sharon, his French girlfriend, Lauranne and her parents, Florence and Philippe, from near Lyons visited over the

Outside Mantua and Guilio Romano’s work possibly the best tromphe l’oeil anywhere. The violin from around 1723 on a door in Chatsworth. Just a painting of a violin. Unreal and real yet fundamentally unreal. Jan van der Vaardt - later one of Feyenoord’s finest

Chatsworth House yesterday was beautiful. The Emperor fountain was doing its thing but despite looking up the strikingly powerful modern art on the estate I can't find who this sculpture of a striding female (elegant at a distance, terrifying close up) is by and what it is

Secrets of Ancoats and New Islington tour, TOMORROW. Sat 13 April. Meet 10.30am at Cutting Room Square. Book here: jonathanschofieldtours.com/secrets-of-anc… ⁦Visit Manchester⁩ ⁦CityCo Manchester⁩ ⁦BBC Manchester⁩ ⁦Ancoats Coffee Co.⁩ ⁦MCC Ancoats & Beswick⁩ @newislington ⁦Ancoats bot⁩

Southern Cemetery tour finishes at the grave of the magnificent Polish poet Maria Pawlikowska Jasnorzewska

Hey, fellas, are you living up to this?

‘WHOEVER WANTS ME TO LOVE HIM’

Whoever wants me to love him must never look gloomy, understand,
and he must be able to lift me

HOME arts centre in a will-we, won't-we, will-we farce in 6 Acts. Public sector confusion and muddled thinking fueling the fire. I've added a Coda which came from a friend after the final HOME about-turn was reported. It underlines how ridiculous people can be even when they've

St John’s Gardens, Manchester, a little video. The gardens sit on a former graveyard. This Saturday 6 April, 10am, I’ll be conducting a tour around Southern Cemetery, hugely bigger and still active. Some great stories there. Visit Manchester BBC Manchester

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Ukraine: Enemy in the Woods on BBC iPlayer is one of the most dramatic, horrific, poignant pieces of documentary I have ever seen. And now I can’t unsee it.

Museum of Tall Buildings for Manchester: the 75 storey building (the tallest outside London) will be built on a site close to Piccadilly Station where the HS2 station was due to be built. It will include a ‘Dangle and dine’ rooftop restaurant.

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The Batley Grammar School scandal and a teacher in hiding. Kenan Malik gives us clarity again.

‘In many Muslim majority countries, though, the charge of blasphemy remains a powerful tool for those in power to consolidate support, silence critics and target minorities. In the