The Marple Leaf
Sunday, November 23, 2025

Mani, the Mayor, and the rhythm of a city

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At our lunch event with Fieldfisher yesterday the MIDAS managing director Joe Manning explained how Manchester’s global brand, the ability t...
Tuesday, November 11, 2025

Simon Binns, his new book, and loving football as we do

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For 18 years Simon Binns is someone I have known and respected. First as a business journalist, more recently a generous walking companion, ...
Saturday, November 01, 2025

Closing in on the 92

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We went to watch a cracking cup tie at Salford City's Peninsula Stadium today. It had it all. The true magic of the FA Cup. Salford City...
Monday, October 06, 2025

Manchester faces terrorism, again

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  At the Business of Greater Manchester conference I hosted our guests were treated to a powerful eulogy to the late great Sir Howard Bernst...
Saturday, September 20, 2025

Ricky Hatton RIP

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What a week. It started in such a sad way with the tragic news that Ricky Hatton had died at home in Gee Cross on Sunday. Just over the hill...
Friday, September 12, 2025

The rise of the creative class

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There’s been a debate raging amongst city leaders for the last two decades about how to become a city that attracts “the creative class” tha...
Sunday, August 24, 2025

First new column for the Manchester Law Society magazine

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August is meant to be silly season. Full of slow news days where news editors fill their pages with editorial landfill. Not this August we h...
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