Joshi Herrmann

Jan 25, 2025 | the-londoner.co.uk | Joshi Herrmann

I’m on the phone to a friend, a recent mother, talking about children’s nurseries. Specifically, we’re talking about the recent trend for nurseries across London to be snapped up by a breed of investors known as “private equity” — hard-charging capitalists known for ruthlessly maximising businesses in underperforming industries and selling the assets at a massive profit. “I personally would never send my kid to a private equity nursery, just out of principle,” she says.

Jan 15, 2025 | manchestermill.co.uk | Joshi Herrmann

Dear Millers – 2024 is in its dog hours and the Met Office map is covered in yellow and amber (“Strong westerly winds...some travel disrupted”), so I have a captive audience for an end of year editor’s note. This is supposed to be a day when we reflect on the year just been, and I’m thinking about a weekend in the Spring when I needed help and I knew where to find it.

Jan 15, 2025 | manchestermill.co.uk | Joshi Herrmann

Sometimes it’s impossible to trace where an idea originated, and sometimes it’s very easy. The idea that something incredibly dark happened in Oldham – that the local authorities and police covered up the mass grooming of white girls by Asian men, and that only a public inquiry can get to the bottom of it — began six years ago, and it began with a man called Raja Miah.

Jan 11, 2025 | manchestermill.co.uk | Joshi Herrmann

Sometimes it’s impossible to trace where an idea originated, and sometimes it’s very easy. The idea that something incredibly dark happened in Oldham – that the local authorities and police covered up the mass grooming of white girls by Asian men, and that only a public inquiry can get to the bottom of it — began six years ago, and it began with a man called Raja Miah.

Dec 31, 2024 | manchestermill.co.uk | Joshi Herrmann

Dear Millers – 2024 is in its dog hours and the Met Office map is covered in yellow and amber (“Strong westerly winds...some travel disrupted”), so I have a captive audience for an end of year editor’s note. This is supposed to be a day when we reflect on the year just been, and I’m thinking about a weekend in the Spring when I needed help and I knew where to find it.