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Pro-Palestine groups occupy the Roscoe Building
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My life has been failing the Bechdel test – and...
We need to politicise mental health
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Why are you laughing: The science of humour
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Fallowfield’s 18.35%: Why are students not voting?
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Celebrity style guide #6: Michael Schumacher
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Houseplant heaven: The best plants to brighten up your student home
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Cooking a week of TikTok recipes on a student budget
TikTok and Teatox: Why social media is sucking the joy out of food
Margarita Month at Zouk: All style, less substance
Springleaf Podcast: James Acaster’s new audio adventure
My year abroad, the visa process, and getting lost in translation
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Zendaya and the art of theme dressing
Celebrity style guide #6: Michael Schumacher
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Houseplant heaven: The best plants to brighten up your student home
17th April 2024
With the RHS Urban Show coming to Manchester, we've found some of the best houseplants to enhance your student accommodation
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Reading should be for joy, not health
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Making Manchester #1: Anna Marsden
Four women who make the art world a better place
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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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SCALA!!! co-director Jane Giles on audiences, programming and being a first-time filmmaker: “There has to be room in the film world for all tastes”
16th April 2024
In conversation with Jane Giles, co-director of SCALA!!!, we discuss how she came to make the film, her career in programming and how the London cinema had lasting impact on young audiences
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Top 5 Feminist Books
Books
With March being Women’s History Month, Leonie Dunn looks at five of the top feminist works from manifestos to fiction
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Classics Digested: Paradise Lost
Books
340 years after John Milton’s death, Leonie Dunn considers Milton’s epic portrayal of the Fall of Man
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Great Worqs
Books
Are you a keen publisher, writer or filmmaker? Then check out Great Worqs, the new and innovative publishing platform
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Wolf Hall from Book to Screen
Books
Leonie Dunn observes Wolf Hall, the television adaptation of Hilary Mantel’s award winning novels, and BBC2’s most successful drama in over a decade
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Top 5: Romantic reads
Books
A list of the top five romantic reads just in time for Valentine’s Day
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Opinion: To Boycott or to not Boycott?
Books
Books Editor Leonie Dunn looks over the Christmas Amazon boycott and focuses on why it is both a positive and negative action to take
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Chaos to Order: Manchester’s Central Library
Books
Leonie Dunn looks to Library Live’s last event that aimed to smash down cultural presumptions and inhibitions surrounding Manchester’s Central Library
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Top 5 Books to Buy this Christmas
Books
Books Editor Leonie Dunn helps you with a list of stocking fillers for this Christmas
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Profile: The Chronicles of C.S. Lewis
Books
Books Editor Leonie Dunn looks over the life of the prolific author C.S. Lewis
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Top 5 Whodunnit Novels
Books
Books Editor Leonie Dunn picks her top 5 novels on those faceless killers and their detective counterparts
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Dylan Thomas’ Centenary
Books
May Dylan Thomas’ death have no dominion
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Top 5 Novels on mental health
Books
As it is Mental Health Awareness Week, Books Editor Leonie Dunn picks the top 5 most iconic novels that focus and reflect on mental health
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Azar Nafisi’s The Republic of Imagination: A Case for Fiction
Books
Nafisi “invites us to join her as citizens of her ‘Republic of Imagination,’ a country where the villains are conformity and orthodoxy and the only passport to entry is a free mind and a willingness to dream.”
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Sigmund Freud’s Life and Influence
Books
“Probably no theory evolved by man is as absurd as Sigmund Freud’s theory of penis envy.” –Esther Vilar in ‘The Manipulated Man’.
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The Book vs. the Kindle
Books
With the ever looming start of term approaching fast how are you going to be catching up on your reading?
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Review: Zadie Smith’s White Teeth
Books
“Every moment happens twice: inside and outside, and they are two different histories.”
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