Here’s a list of all of our authors.
Tuesday, September 15
Our Authors
Caitlin Rooney
Caitlin Rooney has been covering Greater Manchester for the best part of a decade. She started at a local paper in Salford, moved to digital, and spent three years on the housing and planning beat before going independent. She has sat through more council cabinet meetings than she cares to count and still reads the planning portal on her phone. She writes about transport, housing, devolution, policing, and the daily grind of how a city actually runs. She has a particular interest in who benefits from regeneration and who gets moved along by it. Caitlin lives in Chorlton. She thinks the Metrolink is both Manchester's best and worst infrastructure, and does not trust anyone who calls the city centre "town".102 Articles
Tariq Bashir
Tariq Bashir grew up in Levenshulme and has been involved in Manchester business for most of his adult life. He ran a family wholesale operation in his twenties, moved into commercial property management across the Northern Quarter and Ancoats, and spent five years as operations director at a Greater Manchester hospitality group before going freelance. He writes about independent businesses, commercial rents, hospitality, retail, and the economics of running something in a city that markets itself better than it supports its own. He knows what business rates actually do to a margin and is happy to explain it at length. Tariq lives in Didsbury. He has seen enough "Manchester is booming" headlines to know who is booming and who is covering the till.
