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Nearly half of student gamblers are gambling more tha...
Pro-Palestinian student groups occupy Simon Building ...
Nominations for Students’ Union Awards 2024 now...
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“I want the truth, whatever it is”: The r...
From Our Correspondent: Uncovering Berlin’s les...
Thread Therapy: In conversation with UoM’s Fash...
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Crashing pres and judging the drinking culture at dif...
Community strength is the best thing about university...
Main library musings – rant column #1
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In conversation with The Lion King’s Head of Ma...
AI learns its first words (and helps explain how huma...
Can algorithms help you live a better life?
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Fallowfield’s 18.35%: Why are students not voting?
“They decided they didn’t want a Nightline any longer...
Spot checks on international students attendance set ...
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The new generation of F1 drivers: Wasted potential?
Tyrants cruise to playoff victory against Stirling Cl...
Memories of the game: A look back at favourite sporti...
UNiDAYS announce opening of Student Woman of the Year competition
20th March 2024
The UNiDAYS-run competition aims to support female students who are making a difference and offers a £10,000 first prize for entrepreneurial initiatives
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Springleaf Podcast: James Acaster’s new audio adventure
My year abroad, the visa process, and getting lost in translation
Getting involved: Volunteering at the Booth Centre
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TikTok and Teatox: Why social media is sucking the joy out of food
Margarita Month at Zouk: All style, less substance
Flight Club: Margarita Month with a twist
‘An audio treat’: The Mancunion’s favourite podcasts
A ‘quarter-life crisis’?: Finding your feet after a break-up
Little luxuries that make uni life more bearable
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Decoding the phenomenon: What lies behind celebrities launching beauty brands?
Celebrity style guide #3: Sabrina Carpenter
On screen style report #6: Charlotte York
Springleaf Podcast: James Acaster’s new audio adventure
6th March 2024
We discuss Springleaf Podcast, the new audio sitcom created by the much loved British stand-up comic James Acaster.
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Liam Gallagher and John Squire live in Manchester: ...
This Feeling live in Manchester: Rivia, The Stride, a...
86TVs live in Manchester: Headline debut in the city ...
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Summer Daydreaming: Literary escapes from the winter ...
Recommending a book for each Taylor Swift era
International Women’s Day book guide: Celebrati...
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Four women who make the art world a better place
Sonny Angels: The art history behind your new best fr...
The Whitworth’s Dürer Exhibition is coming to a...
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My Beautiful Laundrette review: Nationalism, racial t...
Come From Away press launch: A community show for Chr...
Brilliantly slick and thoroughly enjoyable: UMMTS ...
Live Review: Caroline Polachek at Albert Hall
6th June 2023
Caroline Polachek stuns a sold-out Albert in her rescheduled show, touring her second solo album Desire, I Want To Turn Into You.
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Priscilla review: Coppola gives voice to the voiceless
Wicked Little Letters review: Profanity and mystery i...
Preview: Manchester Film Festival returns to the Grea...
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Hello, Kate? The British public will see you now
How does Netflix’s One Day compare to the origi...
“I want the truth, whatever it is”: The r...
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Are we finally in the age of the video game ‘au...
Killer obsession: Ranking the Dead by Daylight killer...
More narrators in video games, please
Priscilla review: Coppola gives voice to the voiceless
19th March 2024
Sofia Coppola is back with another portrait of girlhood, this time showing the life of Priscilla Presley beyond Elvis' shadow
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Elliott Mills
A defence of irony
Opinion
Elliott Mills witters on for far too long; omnipresent voice Elliot Mills brings us back to a straightened-out meaning of meaning
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Student elections and ongoing contradictions
Opinion
Elliott Mills illustrates how continued low voter turnout in Student Union elections is widening the gap between students and those representing them
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The ‘Before I Die’ blackboard: Iterations and implications
Arts
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Opinion
Elliott Mills illustrates how the ‘Before I Die’ blackboard, as well as other everyday features of Oxford Road, is a symbol for the cycle of life and death
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Proofreading companies: right words, wrong idea
Opinion
T. S. Eliot examines proof-reading companies: are they killing the skill of writing a good essay?
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Hardy’s Well: a surface level re-reading
Books
Elliot Mills muses on the existance of Hardy’s Well and Lemn Sissay’s wall poem
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Is ‘relatable’ online content homogenising us?
Opinion
Our emotional and expressive capacities are changing the age of the meme
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Sankeys closes: who saw this coming?
Opinion
With the closure of the beloved Sankeys, Eliott Mills turns his heart to a memory of his last trip to the infamous venue
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The half-empty promise of Dry January
Opinion
Elliott Mills takes a stern look into the pint glass with a precise analysis of the merits, difficulties, and confusions of Dry January
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No end to Anthony Burgess
Books
Elliot Mills argues the case for a place in the literary heritage of Manchester for Anthony Burgess, a man often left out of the narrative
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War on drugs: Fabric reopens the debate
Opinion
With new rules put in place, Fabric is due to reopen, and with it the age-long debate on drugs is back
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Conspiracy theories take centre stage
Opinion
Elliot Mills exposes the ridiculous arguments of today’s ‘conspiracy theorists’, of whom many helped Donald Trump win the Presidency
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Interview: Iglooghost
Music
The Mancunion speaks to the enigmatic electronic producer Iglooghost
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Where do our course fees go?
Opinion
Equal fees and unequal funding disfavours humanities students writes Elliot Mills
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War on Drugs: Fabric Unravelled
Opinion
Good riddance to the sordid halls of Fabric, hello pre-1960’s Britain
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The Student Survey misses the point
Opinion
Elliott Mills examines what the questionnaire tells us about university life
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Screen Theory
Opinion
Elliott Mills takes a characteristically flippant look at the Alan Gilbert Learning Common’s newest, and most prominent, feature
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The Cultural Appropriation Game
Opinion
With issues of cultural appropriation surrounding this year’s Pangaea, Elliott Mills takes a humorous look at the controversy
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