I am many things but I am not a good cook. During my GCSE Home Economics exam I burnt a potato in the microwave, sending waves of pungent fumes throughout the school. As I looked up in anguish at my teacher, she said “um,...
Read MoreOutside Blackburn’s Madina Mosque the terraced streets roll down into a valley where the town centre spreads out comfortably, but another steep incline begins into the green hills above. The view from a place of worship is...
Read MoreIt feels even colder and wetter than Manchester as I step off the train at Blackburn. But it is this climate that allowed the cotton industry to thrive here and whose legacy the inaugural British Textile Biennial (which runs...
Read More“I think young people genuinely understand that if you buy things from a small business, you are helping yourselves and your generation to do better than letting all the money go into the hands of the pension funds with dinosaur...
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