Sports Editor Patrick Madden picks his ultimate Manchester United team under the reign of Sir Alex Ferguson.

Ireland’s fourth province finally have the chance to dine at European rugby’s top table.

Can modern football embrace the concept of ‘The Big Society’? The Mancunion headed to Manchester Grammar School to Investigate.

Mugabe, Zimbabwe and Katy Perry. Could this couples’ cultural chit chat lead to more?

Andrew Williams looks back at a defining era for Italian politics as the curtain falls on Silvio Berlusconi’s premiership

Review: One Monkey Don’t Stop No Show at the Contact Theatre

Paraphrasing Winston Churchill is a fraught business at the best of times, but the prison sentences given to the players involved in Lord’s spot-fixing scandal must be seen as “not the beginning of the end, but at least the end of the beginning” in the battle to fight corruption in cricket.

Privatisation works by opening up services to a free market, which drives down prices and leads to innovation and improvements in customer service. These improvements over a nationalised system are born out of competition between different providers. The telecoms industry is an excellent example of where privatisation has worked to effect improvements; numerous providers offer […]

Date: Wednesday 19th October 2011 Venue: Armitage Sports Centre Score: Liverpool 1st 50- 37 Manchester 3rd

Break away from the comforts of Oxford Road and see what else is out there.

Interested in travelling? Want to escape those winter month Curry Mile traffic jams, where you wonder if you’ll ever feel anything but bitterness for the world again? Well study abroad might just be for you. Have a look and see how these people got on with their first-hand tales.

Zeina Ramadan shares her experiences of growing up in Nablus, Palestine

Doing our bit to annoy everyone else

Woody, Wilson and Whimsy

By Emma Fernell Let loose your inner thespian and involve yourself with performance, production and professional theatre.

Is it a pain not to drink at university? Are non-drinkers excluded from some activities? Some students share their experiences.

Manchester Lacrosse begin season in style with a crushing victory over rivals Sheffield

Ben Moore in defence of the University, and city, of Manchester

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

More from our GRAFFITI SPECIAL. Hulme’s currently pleasant and middle-class face masks a hidden past of cultural rejection and dissent – so much so that it became the underground Mecca of all things creative, including and especially graffiti.