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 […]

Or alternatively… Extremely Crap and Incredibly Boring

Tom Ingham chats to Inspiral Carpets bassist, Martyn Walsh, on what it’s like to be back in action.

Sunday dinner needn’t be your standard farmyard bovine.

Hearty congratulations must go to the University this week after they resolved to pay all of their staff in line with their own pay scales. This means that service staff will be paid at least £7.80 an hour. Given the difficult economic climate and financial difficulties hitting the higher education sector it is particularly commendable […]

Musically they’re an acquired taste, lyrically they’re completely absurd, but Pulled Apart by Horses are riotously good fun.

Magnetic Fields – at their best when the synths take a back seat.

Unlike many releases today, Born To Run wasn’t knocked up to meet output demands.

More solid 7’s as Dan and Vicky connect over a mutual love for folk music and Star Wars

Alternative (and resourceful) sex tips from Emilia Hazel

How far will you go for a freebie?

This week Keir takes you on a whistle stop tour of the tonsillitis and antibiotic dilemma!

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

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 […]

Does tumblr have anything to offer the literary scene?

Twelve years after a tragic accident that lead to prison time and estrangement from his family, Dwight Arno receives a visit from his son Sam. Deeply unhappy and misanthropic (due in no small part to his father’s crime and disappearance) Sam has grievously injured a man in a bar fight and his future hangs in […]

Free online tuition service, the Khan Academy, provides thousands of videos allowing students of any age to develop their knowledge on a range of subjects

A sentence of 10 years has been given to the abductor and torturer of a Salford man

Applicant figures for private university BBP have seen a large increase this year while publicly funded universities have suffered

Economics student “takes something everyone is familiar with and puts a twist on it”