Mac DeMarco finally grows up, delivering a low-key album full of his most introspective and accomplished songwriting to date
A devastating tribute to his dead wife, Phil Elverum’s reflection on love and grief still feels raw. It is his most powerful and complete work yet, and it is a tearjerker
Deputy News Editor Len Cotton, attended Manchester Open Mind Network’s panel event on anxiety
Popular environmental journalist declares Great Barrier Reef officially ‘dead’
The Ryder Cup and the nationwide discussion on Wayne Rooney’s place in the England XI demonstrate that the behaviour of the public, as well as that of the players, needs examining
Alex Whitcomb explains what Therapeutic Use Exemptions are and why recent leaks of athletes’ TUE use have caused so many problems
Master’s student Luqman Onikosi faces deportation back to Nigeria where he will not receive critical Hepatitis B treatment
The Conservative’s successive undemocratic crackdowns on our freedom to protest are a sign of a government with little effective challenge
Ten years ago, J Dilla left behind his nostalgic, life-affirming swansong, the 31-track masterpiece Donuts: a sprawling and inspired distillation of 70s black music that cemented his status as a musical genius
MMU’s Holden Gallery reminds us that when it comes to housing the maquette precedes the market
With the Labour leadership contest drawn to a close, Grace Iona Annesley-Mair retrospectively discusses Yvette Cooper’s billing as the ‘feminist’ candidate
Imran Bukhari reckons that this Sundance hit is a believable teen drama that successfully transcends many conventions of the genre
The Mancunion’s guide to UK festivals of 2015
Ross Huskisson talks about the hotly anticipated prequel to Breaking Bad
Schizophrenia has been described as one of the most misunderstood disorders. In ‘Reassembling the Self’, Susan Aldworth looks to diminish the stigma that schizophrenia has and to depict perceptions and experiences of it through art
The Moons provided exactly what their audience were looking for
James Jackson discusses the positives of ‘smart’ drug use in academia and other areas.
The Comic Collective provides some anime classics, in the form of both film and book, to usher in new fans
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 […]