Cucumber sandwiches aren't the delicacy of most working-class communities. They represent a world of polite conversations, established institutions and comfortable assumptions about how respectable people should behave. Yet sometimes that culture can struggle to understand those who don't communicate within those boundaries. The controversy surrounding The Manchester Mill’s coverage of the Salford University posters raises wider questions about class, credibility and those wh

On Wednesday last week we received documents from Labour Together following Subject Access Requests that we submitted to Labour Together in February 2026. The documents provided by Labour Together are deeply disturbing. They show that Labour Together and APCO targeted us, our colleagues, our associates and Paul’s family with utterly false and highly defamatory allegations, and that this was done with the knowledge of the highest levels of the Labour Party. Indeed, we are now