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UCU Strikes paused after narrow vote
Nine days of strike action planned for start of term
UoM to give some final year students £500 due to UCU ...
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Colour and community: How a Fallowfield gardening pro...
Activist Peter Singer speaks out on student protests ...
How Mayfield Park is turning an abandoned space into ...
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A love letter to my little sister, my younger self, a...
The Sudan conflict: a Sudanese perspective
Fetishising financial hardship – when will univ...
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Long COVID: Can improved sleep cure breathlessness?
The power of stars: Manchester and its energy revolution
First private Moon landing attempt fails
Investigations
Dirty underwear, a broken boiler and £400 in cleaning...
What have your SU execs been up to this year?
350 or 44: How many students are engaging in the rent...
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Let’s talk about Mary Earps’ World Cup final penalty ...
Why have Red Bull been so dominant, and what does thi...
Lancashire cricket team begin home Blast campaign wit...
UCU Strikes paused after narrow vote
25th September 2023
The strikes have today been called off after an emergency meeting at 11am today. Find out more as we know it
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A guide to: City halls
A guide to: Victoria Park halls
Manchester Pride 2023 launches with Andy Burnham, Booking.com and Ghetto Fabu...
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Put a (meat free) wing on it with TiNDLE
Bill’s Spinningfields review: Frozen cocktails and mains are a hit and ...
QR Codes in restaurants: A benefit or a burden?
Night of the Divas: Bongo’s Bingo review
Summer in suburbia: Six tips to reset at home
Lifestyle Loves: Chorlton
Fashion & Beauty
Bloomers are back: A successful attempt at reclaiming feminist fashion?
King George vs Lady Gaga: Crown to Couture at Kensington Palace in review
Natsu Fest: The Last Dance – What’s next for Manchester’s c...
A guide to: City halls
31st August 2023
Our guide to the often lesser-known city halls at the University of Manchester, which cater to both undergraduate and postgraduate students.
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Fruit live in Manchester: A cooking-pot of culture
Blondes live and in conversation: “We want to d...
Lloyd Cole to play Manchester’s Albert Hall
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The greatest band that never existed: Daisy Jones and...
Interview with Frederick Studemann: Judge for the Int...
Dear Dolly Live: Sex, breakups and tipsy confessions
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Review: Manchester Revue’s Lonely Hearts Sketch...
Review: R.O.S.E – Sharon Eyal, Gai Behar and Yo...
Review: Benji Reid’s – Find Your Eyes
Theatre
The Crown Jewels review: We are not amused
Annie review: A fab-u-lous family spectacular
Great Expectations in the Raj: In conversation with T...
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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I, Daniel Blake: Loach’s masterpiece continues to be ...
Passages review: Desire has never been so pleasureless
Past Lives review: Celine Song delivers an outstandin...
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Everybody’s Talking About John Partridge: drag,...
Joanne Clifton on Shrek, Strictly and Lego
Co-stars or boarding school bunk mates? Britain’...
Games
Dredge: Euphoric short excitement
Eight exciting games this year
God of War: Ragnarök fails its female characters
I, Daniel Blake: Loach’s masterpiece continues to be worryingly relevant
25th September 2023
Ahead of ken Loach's latest film, the film section looks back at his late career masterpiece 'I, Daniel Blake' and it's relevancy to Tory ruled Britain
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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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Review: Zadie Smith’s White Teeth
Books
“Every moment happens twice: inside and outside, and they are two different histories.”
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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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