Councillor SAM WHEELER, recently re-elected, speaks to the people of the rapidly changing heart of his home city

Councillor SAM WHEELER spoke to the person responsible for the graffiti slogan that went viral about poverty under Covid-19, Tory iniquity and the legacy of austerity

Manchester remains a Labour bastion, but there are forces stirring beneath the party's formidable machine, writes SAM WHEELER

British satire may be instinctively anti-Tory, but with Jeremy Hardy’s death we lost one of the few prepared to stand up for Corbyn’s Labour Party, writes SAM WHEELER

Councillor SAM WHEELER writes of the challenges, past and present, facing his home city