I’m going to give you £100,000. Now here’s the choice: I can either put £60,000 in your bank account and give the rest to the government, or I can put £85,000 in a business account and give you access to it. Which one are you really going to choose? Most of us would like to […]

Taxation is a wonderful thing; it works to fairly raise revenue for the services that we all need. Tax revenue goes to enabling university access for students from all backgrounds and funding the NHS – the best health service in the world, taking care of every citizen in the country regardless of wealth or social […]

Comment & Debate Editor Ben Green takes a look at the real reason behind obscene bonuses, and has a modest proposal for making everything better In this quasi-free market society of which we are all proud citizens, the economy runs on a simple proposition: the exchange of labour for currency. Companies employ people to make […]

Mercedes Antrobus considers whether it is the fault of the press that there’s a lot we don’t know about. As I have insinuated previously in the Mancunion, the press has a certain degree of control over global events. Over the last year we have all learnt, thanks to the News of the World scandal, that […]

Victoria Root tells us how easy it would be to move to a greener economy. A recent surge in renewable technology shows that a solution to climate change is possible, so why is nothing being done about it? The planet’s temperature is predicted to rise by around 1.9 degrees Celsius and we must cut carbon […]

Eve Fensome explores the politics behind India’s new purchase of fighter jets

The Union’s ‘monster referendum’ is here and they’re casing for your votes on a great variety of matters. Many of the planned measures would undoubtedly improve the Union – the clause to allow online voting for policy motions would certainly increase the likelihood that any such motion could actually pass. Unfortunately, buried in the mass […]

When it comes to America, the entire world seems to suffer from an inferiority complex. What makes America better than any other nation? And why are we so convinced we need them to prosper? Perhaps it’s because America is the world’s largest economy? However, if we really take a deep look into the American economy, […]

 This, if you happen to be reading, bicycle thief, is all about you. Why do we try to rehabilitate offenders? We do it because the criminal is a victim as well; it is not his fault he is forced to steal from his neighbour to scratch a living in this harsh and brutal world. He […]

Gary Speed’s recent, tragic, passing at the age of 42 has pushed one of the more delicate topics into the public domain, depression. Depression is not a simple feeling of unhappiness we all inevitably feel once in a while, it is an illness. This, in itself, is a difficult thing to comprehend; a feeling of […]

Has exam stress got you down? Have you returned from your immaculate, well-stocked home over Christmas to find yourself once again afflicted by empty cupboards and housemates whose idea of washing up is to leave it in the sink until you do it? Despair no longer then, because – despite first appearances – this article […]

Comment & Debate Editor Ben Green explains why the term ‘U-turn’ needs to be banished forever.   It is virtually guaranteed that if you pick up any newspaper on any given day of the week, it will somewhere contain an article accusing local or national government of a ‘U-turn’. In the figurative sense it is […]

Smacking is back! Or at least it’s back in the news. For those not in the know, smacking was banned in the ’90s, but the law was deemed confusing and clarified in 2005. The law currently forbids smacking so hard as to leave a bruise or redden the skin (sensible enough until you realise, as […]

As has been prominently reported by every single news outlet in the country, Sir Fred Goodwin is now simply Mr Fred. He was stripped of his knighthood for his role in the collapse of RBS and the £45 million he has cost the taxpayer through his epic mishandling of the bank. Whilst this move has […]

Call me old fashioned, pretentious, whatever else, but something really gets my goat about the proliferation of Facebook ‘photographers’. I don’t understand the need for so many pictures while clubbing or drinking. Every night out validated by posing, posting and commenting on the same cookie cutter images with different faces? This isn’t purely a clubber’s […]

Mohammed describes the human tragedy behind the cold statistics of the occupation

Andrew Williams discusses Ed Miliband’s struggle to find a direction with former General Secretary of the Labour Party, Peter Watt

Greater separation between religion and the state will give people of faith more religious freedom, not less, writes Catriona Watson

Reform is essential if we are to restore the legitimacy of the upper chamber, Paul Adair explains

Bomb-happy fanatics aren’t the only thing about religion that ruins things for everyone else