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“I want the truth, whatever it is”: The r...
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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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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...
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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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Priscilla review: Coppola gives voice to the voiceless
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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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Oversharing and Generation Facebook
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With uploading every aspect of our lives onto the internet becoming more normalized, Cecilia Bicknell paints a dystopian view of our oversharing habits.
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I love the smell of paper in the morning
Opinion
Nowadays we choose cheap thrills over classic knowledge; the book must not die
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Careers Corner: Founder of ‘Facebook’ for Student Employability
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One of the founders of Kloodle, Phil Hayes, talks to Robert Firth about how they started and the graduate job market today.
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Switch Off Social Media
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Now we’ve left our teenage years, is it time to stop fretting about how many Facebook likes we have? Charlotte Wheatcroft thinks so
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Facebook may soon promote extremism
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Lauren Wills: Facebook is an egotistical façade perfect for extremism, and it’s going to get worse.
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Does social media connect people?
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David Brierley and Samuel Gilmore respond to the pressing question about the imposing effects of social media; is it, or is it not beneficial?
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Facebook: the new King Maker
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After a spate of human rights pages being deleted from Facebook, Lauren Gorton asks whether it is taking its history-making role seriously
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Students perform ‘neknominations’ during lectures
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In one case a student dressed up as Robin in a University of Manchester politics lecture
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I swapped Facebook for knitting and won’t ever look back!
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Arts Editor Abbie Roberts on the addictive procrastination alternative to social networking and its hidden associations with crime.
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Idiotic Internet Trend of the Week: NekNomination
Lifestyle
The latest internet super-craze “NekNomination” has swept the globe. Give it a rest, says Sophie Lipton
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Instasham
Lifestyle
Has the world of social networking distorted our views on happiness and success? Beth Currall thinks so
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Manchester student profiles uploaded to Ratemash
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Dozens of Facebook photos have been used without students’ consent by a controversial website branded “creepy” by the NUS
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Lost and disenchanted: Murakami and the student experience
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Ross Graham explores the parallels between Murakami’s evocation of ‘60s students life in Norweigian Wood and 21st century student life…
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Manchester Uni Facebook page for ‘hilarious confessions’ launched
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Facebook pages created for Manchester university students to tell all their shocking stories
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The unofficial Freshers guide to scams
Opinion
Every year students are being scammed, but what is anybody doing about it?
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Facebook ‘rioter’ jailed
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A man who encouraged rioting in Manchester using Facebook has been sentenced to three years in prison
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