Month: August 2026
A season in the fourth tier
Two thousand seven hundred a week, a part-time squad and a chairman who publishes the accounts. It works, mostly.
Read MoreSmall manufacturers, one year after the energy ...
Margins recovered, confidence did not. Three owners on why they are still not investing.
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Housing targets and the arithmetic of consent
The number is achievable. The number in the places people want to live is not, and that is a different problem entirely.
Read MoreThe archive that was nearly skipped
Nine thousand negatives in a garage in Bootle, catalogued by two volunteers over four years, now in the city collection.
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Promotion, and the wage bill that comes with it
The parachute payment arithmetic that decides whether a promoted side spends or holds. Most hold, and most are right to.
Read MoreWhat the port numbers mean
Container volumes are down eleven per cent and nobody in the sector seems worried. We asked six people why.
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A quiet year for the concert hall
Attendance flat, programming braver than it has been in a decade. The two facts are related, and not in the direction you would guess.
Read MoreThe select committee that nobody watched
Four hours of evidence, one national story, and a transcript that contradicts the story on page nine. We read all of it.
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