Book Review: The Rentier City by Isaac Rose reviewed by James Fishwick

The Rentier City - Manchester and the making of the Neoliberal Metropolis by Isaac Rose is a more than thorough history of the industrialisation of Manchester …

Same Skies newsletter #04: Community pop-ups, our new report on graduate retention, and an MBE

This newsletter was first published by email in Autumn 2023. If you'd like our next newsletter hot off the press to your inbox, please join …

The Freedom to Stay Put

For most people, travelling and going on holiday are aspirational activities - our sense of comfort, success and even self-worth are bound up with the extent …

Newsletter #03: Frontline housing, StoptheSCANdal, and Community Theatre

2023 has been a rollercoaster of a year so far for West Yorkshire and the country writ large. Politically, a new Prime Minister in Rishi …

Fortress London: Why we need to save the country from its capital by Sam Bright review

When I began reading this book on the train to Cambridge from Leeds to visit a college friend at University there, I was surprised, and …

Newsletter #02: Permaculture, West Yorkshire Films, and UBI

Hello everyone!

We’re back again with the Same Skies newsletter highlighting all the great projects, people and ideas blooming across West Yorkshire.

As Westminster …