With show proposals swamping the studio and scheduling in full swing the Fuse team are eagerly awaiting getting back on the airwaves 9th October when we’ll be broadcasting for ten weeks. We’re going to be training all week, so if you’ve been lucky enough to bag yourself a show prepare to be amazed. Fuse has […]

Asim Javed faces an indeterminate prison sentence for attacking two women in Fallowfield and Didsbury. Joshua Carroll, Catriona Gray, Duncan Jaycock and Hannah Tosh report

Last year the University of Manchester Students’ Union mandated The Mancunion to feature the stories of students at Al-Najah University, which our students’ union is twinned with. Al-Najah is based in Nablus, in the West Bank. The aim of this is to show the everyday experiences of students in the Palestinian territories. Here is an account given by student Sa’ed Abu Ayash.

Sinead Bird counts down her favourite movie heroines

Scarface

Sibling Rivalry

12th-27th October 2011

For all of President Obama’s idealistic rhetoric, it falls to our European leaders to take action over the Middle East peace process

Andrew Williams explains why his love affair with the Labour Party is over – for now

Civil Engineering stud, Tom, meets Linguistics lover, Naomi, over some steak and sticky toffee pud!

The travelling bug has hit students everywhere, get yourself down to STA for treatment now.

The age of multi-billion dollar presidential campaigns has bred a generation of US politicians who are increasingly beholden to wealthy donors

With the Tory Conference descending on Manchester, we ask our political party societies why their party is the one to watch this week

Putting on Gilbert & Sullivan musicals every year for the past 60 years

Kevin Bennett considers the likely impact of government plans to cut the number of MPs and redraw constituency boundaries

Socially acceptable selfishness

Conservative Party activist Charles Bailey assesses a strange turn in the ongoing battle to become the next leader of the Scottish Tories

Exclusive: Medical students will get the tablets as part of a pilot scheme, the first of its kind in the UK. Ruth Wildman, Khalil Secker and Emily Cant report.

The Mancunion meet up with Paul O’Neil and Ian Field from Manchester Universities Gilbert and Sullivan Society (MUGGS) to talk about the enduring popularity of Gilbert and Sullivan…

So much to see, so much to say.