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Westminster has failed Britain on Palestine. What can we do next?
Opinion

Westminster has failed Britain on Palestine. What can we do next?

The role of global protest since the beginning of Israel’s most recent attack on Gaza cannot be underestimated. Co-ordinated, international shows of solidarity have kept the issue relevant and on the front pages. Without feet on the ground in cities across the world there would likely not have been an ICJ hearing or investigation into the ongoing Israeli genocide. Subsequently, Westminster has found itself reluctantly debating a subject it ordinarily avoids.
ByByJames Taylor
A just Greater Manchester – what do you think?
Editorial

A just Greater Manchester – what do you think?

Our reporters will be out across all ten GM boroughs over the next two weeks, asking members of the public what they think about the idea of a just Greater Manchester.
ByByThe Meteor Team
Ardwick triumphs against the Monster – for now
News

Ardwick triumphs against the Monster – for now

Brunswick estate residents celebrate stay of execution as council planning committee resolves to inspect £450m Upper Brook Street development site
ByByDanny Moran
Why my biography of folk producer Bill Leader is really a social history of the Twentieth Century
Culture

Why my biography of folk producer Bill Leader is really a social history of the Twentieth Century

ByMike Butler
Who pays your MP: how much are Greater Manchester MPs earning from second jobs?
News

Who pays your MP: how much are Greater Manchester MPs earning from second jobs?

ByKacy Preen
This is Greater Manchester: Tameside
Features

This is Greater Manchester: Tameside

ByGary Roberts

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This is Greater Manchester: Bury
Features

This is Greater Manchester: Bury

Some boroughs of Manchester purvey the feeing that they are extensions of the city itself, administrative segments that are intrinsically linked to the metropolitan centre. Bury is not one of them. On leaving the tram at Bury, the last stop on…

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Rochdale AFC has its own cost-of-living crisis, but still manages to support its community

Rochdale AFC has its own cost-of-living crisis, but still manages to support its community

The cost-of-living crisis is something affecting everyone, from young families that live paycheque-to-paycheque, to businesses whose outgoings have significantly increased whilst their profit margins have declined. Though many find their escape in football, football can’t escape the current financial climate. Although the top Premier League clubs appear unfazed by the situation, it is a different story for lower league sides such as Rochdale AFC.
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RainOnMe FC – Playing a Different Way

RainOnMe FC – Playing a Different Way

Women playing football is nothing new, but women being paid to play professional football is. Since 2018, professional female footballers earn £47,000 per year, a good sum by anyone’s standards but when compared with male footballers’ salaries, it’s pocket money. But it’s a start, and change only comes about when people who care, show it.
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Greater Manchester Tenants Union: two years of successful campaigns and fighting for housing rights

Greater Manchester Tenants Union: two years of successful campaigns and fighting for housing rights

Over two-fifths (45%) of England’s private renters have been victims of illegal behaviour from a landlord or letting agent. Greater Manchester Tenants Union (GMTU) have spent the past two years fighting for renters’ rights so that everyone has access to an affordable, secure and decent home.
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Opinion

Black Lives Matter: Greater Manchester is not innocent

ByByGuest Writer
Today the trial hearing of the four ex-police officers charged with the murder of George Floyd begins in the US, whilst Mancunians demonstrate this evening as part of a national day of anti-racist solidarity. But incidents of institutional racism that have taken place in Greater Manchester in recent years remind us that there is still much work to be done here.
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Lessons from Leigh

ByByBen Beach
Ben Beach argues that in order to revive itself in places such as his hometown of Leigh, the left needs to engage with the grassroots organisations that are currently doing vital community work and re-cement itself as a force for practical, everyday change.
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Does the Mayfield proposal offer the radical change Manchester desperately needs or will the city be left unsatisfied?

ByByGuest Writer
Plans to rejuvenate the derelict Mayfield Depot offers a glimpse of hope for the city centre with promises of new homes, offices and a park to boot. But there are fears that the average resident could be priced out of the space and the green measures promised do not go far enough to protect the […]
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Culture

“Lipstick on the pig of austerity” – Equity’s view on the Levelling Up agenda that’s decimating the arts

“Lipstick on the pig of austerity” – Equity’s view on the Levelling Up agenda that’s decimating the arts

https://youtu.be/hKL4HyZ01fs It began to snow as press gathered outside Arts Council England’s Manchester base, waiting for an update on the fate of Oldham Coliseum, which has announced it will close…

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“They’re depriving a whole generation of accessible arts, of ambition, of hope and storytelling”

“They’re depriving a whole generation of accessible arts, of ambition, of hope and storytelling”

At the public meeting held by Equity at Oldham Coliseum on Tuesday 21 February, I met Jane Hazlegrove who raised a good question about what Oldham Council would be spending…

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Friends of The Meteor

The Friends of The Meteor category contains articles that have been published elsewhere and  selected by The Meteor team as worthy of sharing to our audience. They will generally have a Manchester or Greater Manchester focus and are from publications we trust and respect.

Manchester bomber was a UK ally
Friends of The Meteor

Manchester bomber was a UK ally

Salman Abedi and his closest family were part of Libyan militias benefitting from British covert military support six years before he murdered 22 people at the Manchester Arena in 2017. He is likely to have been radicalised by his experience.

Part 1 of Declassified UK’s investigation into the Manchester bombing.
ByByGuest Writer
Andy Burnham announces new taskforce to save Oldham Athletic Football Club
Friends of The Meteor

Andy Burnham announces new taskforce to save Oldham Athletic Football Club

Mayor of Greater Manchester Andy Burnham announces new taskforce for supporter-led football with plans to put fans in control of crisis hit Oldham Athletic
ByByGuest Writer
Sunak’s choice: to support the banks and their ill-gotten gains or to save the people from poverty
Friends of The Meteor

Sunak’s choice: to support the banks and their ill-gotten gains or to save the people from poverty

Economist Richard Murphy explains how quantitative easing really works, and how it benefits the banks and not the people of Greater Manchester struggling with the cost-of-living crisis.
ByByGuest Writer