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Arts
- ‘Penthouse and Pavement’ – Sarah Hardacre at The Modernist
- Is it Art? Fashion Week
- Art In Mancunia: Shona Sterland
- Print and Chill: An African textile workshop
- Art in Mancunia: Charlie Bird
- Exhibition Review: Manchester Open Exhibition
- Art In Mancunia: Sonny Baker Royle
- Art in Mancunia: Pleasures
- Art in Mancunia: Alice Goad
- Is it Art?: Sh*t London Guinness
- Art in Mancunia: Sebastian Schmidt
- What’s On in the Arts
- Art in Mancunia: Ossie Akhilomen
- Art in Mancunia: Tom Branfoot
- Is it Art? Science
- Art in Mancunia: William McCullion/Tilda James
- Art in Mancunia: Molly James
- Art in Mancunia 2020: Yang Sweeps
Books
- Jonathan Coe, or the novelist who tries to narrate Brexit
- Review: Hegemony and Socialist Strategy
- ‘Checking out me own history’: exclusion in the English literary canon
- Gabriel Garcia Márquez: Love and solitude
- Inclusivity in children’s literature
- I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
- How Instagram made books cool again
- Alasdair Gray, Scottish avant-garde provocateur, dies aged 85
- Reads for 2020
- Vicarious travels: On the travel writing genre
- Review: ‘The Year I Didn’t Eat’ by Samuel Pollen
- The Reading Agency Christmas appeal
- Gifts and reads for the New Year
- A novel for the Anthropocene: Richard Powers’ The Overstory
- Truth in fiction: Arundhati Roy
- “The angriest black man in America”: The autobiography of Malcolm X
- Why do we put books on a pedestal?
- Review: Little Fires Everywhere
Environment
- Brexit and the environment
- Manchester University under pressure to divest from fossil fuels
- Flipping amazing: whales and dolphins have “human-like” cultures
- Creative climate activists use paintings for protests
- Earth Week’s climate change plea
- Poorest countries aim to eliminate fossil fuels
- Can nature documentaries promote conservation?
- Will Murdoch pollute National Geographic?
Fashion & Beauty
- The political importance of Billy Porter’s iconic Red Carpet looks
- Is the intersection of fast fashion and modern art democratic or exploitative?
- The sustainable, multi-use French girl beauty secret
- How to wear midi and maxi coats
- Skincare basics for young adults
- Iris van Herpen spring 2020 couture: sensory seas
- Alexander McQueen’s legacy: VOSS
- How Netflix’s Sex Education explores identity politics and victim blaming through fashion
- Sustainable and affordable fashion brands
- A guy’s guide to wearing jewellery
- Sustainable and affordable beauty brands
- What to wear when you’re bored of winter fashion
- The sustainable underwear to buy this Valentine’s Day
- Black in Fashion UK host new film Queen and Slim
- ASOS’ ‘See My Fit’ tool is a step in the right direction for online shopping
- Accounting for Style #4: Winter coat investment means spending over budget
- Netflix series ‘Next in Fashion’ could be 2020’s answer to America’s Next Top Model
- Accounting for Style #3: An identity crisis haircut and a perfume shopping spree
Features
- The influencer-industrial complex: Love Island through a Marxist lens
- The Mancunion takes on The Crystal Maze
- Are we still investing in destruction?
- Climate Justice Fortnight: the UK class system and climate justice
- Rehabilitation, crime and community in the wake of the Streatham stabbing
- No Pain, No Train – The sorry state of British rail travel
- ‘No Street Called Home’: Work of a Manchester-based charity in Jinja, Uganda
- What place do men have in Reclaim the Night?
- Amy & Eva take the spotlight as Adam & Eve cast aside
- Find your new year Fighting Spirit with Boxing Fitness
- Seeing out the decade in Manchester nightlife with Sacha Lord
- Staying optimistic with Josie Long
- Think before you ink
- Every Month fight period poverty with festive fundraising
- Unfollow: A look into Westboro Baptist Church
- Spinning plates with Keiran Sharples
- Muma Knows Best: how tragedy turns to excellence with Chinyere Mckenzie
- “I trusted the University… but I just feel really let down”: Navigating mitigating circumstances
Film
- Review: Naked Lunch
- Recommended: A24 films
- Review: Little Women
- Home: A look at Rufus Jones’ “refugee sitcom”
- Review: A Beautiful Day in the Neighbourhood
- Review: Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn)
- Recommended: Climate change films
- Review: Parasite
- Review: Richard Jewell
- What does Parasite’s big win mean for the future of the Oscars?
- HOME Season: Adaptation: Impossible Novels
- Oscars 2020 Predictions
- Review: The Lighthouse
- Review: Gorillaz: Reject False Icons
- Review: Bombshell
- Review: A Hidden Life
- Preview: Victoria Baths Valentine’s Cinema
- Review: 21 Bridges
Food & Drink
- Death Row Dinners: Acting Edition
- Steak Night Every Night
- Death Row Dinners: Sex icon edition
- The Valentine’s edit: brunch dates
- Roses are red, violets are blue – let’s get smashed
- Why We Should All Eat Seasonally
- The Ivy: a chain of disappointment
- The commercialisation of coffee: style over substance at Pot Kettle Black
- Love Island: Where is the food?
- Review: Tapeo and Wine
- Review: Shoryu, ramen worth the splurge
- Franco Manca’s 40,000 Pizza Pledge for the Homeless
- Crazy Pedro’s Christmas Pizza: Is it a step too far?
- Death Row Dinners: Starring… murderous men
- Meal deal rip-offs: Curry mile solutions for a £3.50 lunch
- The Mexican smackdown: Which tacos tick boxes?
- Peru Perdu Review: What is Tiger Milk and Why You Need It
- Death Row Dinners: starring The Mancunion
Freshers' Guide
- No problem too big or small
- Manchester’s Alternative Freshers: Bars, Pubs and Nights Out
- Recipe: Beef Wellington with a Steak Diane sauce
- Live review: Jordan Rakei
- Combatting Freshers’ Flu
- Ways to Eat – the Freshers’ guide to nutrition
- What the future holds
- Quinoa Frittata, what a wonderful phrase
- Survey launched on the truth behind UK arts diversity
- Manchester travel deals
- The top night spots in Manchester
- The best live music venues in Manchester
- Review: National Football Museum
- Before You’re 30
- ‘Emergency2013’
- Bohemian Grove @ Islington Mill
- Stylish but straightforward: Basil Pesto
- Ultimate guide to Freshers’ Week 2013.
Games
- Review: Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice
- Details revealed for Student Game Jam: Manchester
- Review: The Occupation
- Review: Trials Rising
- Review 2.0: Football Manager 2019
- Review: Yakuza: Kiwami
- Review: Metro Exodus
- Interview: Game Assist
- Preview: The Occupation
- The State of Skate: where are the games?
- Review: RIOT – Civil Unrest
- Why Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Siege is the best competitive shooter in 2019
- Metro Exodus shuns Steam in favour of Epic Games store
- Riot: Civil Unrest set to leave Early Access
- Gaming in Manchester 2019: a preview
- Manchester-based Odd Bug announce Tails of Iron
- Review: Firewatch – Nintendo Switch
- The Game Awards Roundup
Investigations
- SKUM vows to tackle ‘damaging behaviours’ as UoM launches investigation
- SKUM: Manchester’s Bullingdon Club?
- Hooters, bearded dragons, and clogs: inside the world of university expenses
- Manchester students plagued by Erasmus uncertainty
- UoM Senior Leadership Team: “More committed to profit than people?”
- ‘I have no time to eat, shower or look after myself’ – Life as a student nurse in Manchester
- UoM’s China-backed institute denies propaganda role
- Are Manchester’s international students getting value for money?
- Manchester students turn to tactical voting
- Concerns raised over UoM’s racism reporting process
- Manchester graphene research: is the military muscling in?
- “I don’t feel safe at all”: Manchester’s EU students speak out
- What’s your degree worth? UoM grade inflation revealed
- Manchester students handed free cash to gamble
- UoM 13th best Russell Group uni in NSS
- Year In Review 2019: Liberation & Access Officer Sara Khan
- Year In Review 2019: International Students’ Officer Riddi Viswanathan
- Year In Review 2019: Activities Officer Lizzy Haughton
Lifestyle
- Let’s Get Away: Edinburgh
- Sometimes, we need to be allowed to fail
- Be bold, be bald: It’s time to tackle hair loss head on
- Still waiting for misogyny to be a hate crime
- Lessons of being alone—an international student’s perspective
- Growing up bilingual
- No pressure to be positive—just be body neutral
- Is it possible to travel sustainably?
- All you need is love…and presents?
- Netflix delivers the schooling we all wish we had with Sex Education
- It’s important to be mindful, even if you’re vegan
- A note on burnout culture
- Go join your local library!
- The problem with normalising ‘situationships’
- Treat Yourself: Self-Care in a Capitalist World
- Let’s Reclaim the Night: 20th of February 2020
- Let’s Get Away: Paris
- Ableist music venues: an ongoing discrimination crisis in music
Music
- Live Review: Blossoms at Stockport Plaza
- Rizzle Kicks vs Loyle Carner: They Walked So That He Could Run
- A Tribute to Andrew Weatherall
- From ‘Back to Bedlam’ to ‘Bartender’: Has James Blunt changed his sound to appeal to the younger generation?
- EP Review: Vandalism by The Vandalis
- Preview: Happy/Sad by Circa Wave
- In Conversation with Matt Maltese
- In Conversation with Mae Muller
- Album Review: The Slow Rush by Tame Impala
- Preview: Cage the Elephant UK/European Tour
- Live Review: Twin Temples at The Deaf Institute
- In conversation: Carly Rae Jepsen
- Album Review: Big Conspiracy by J Hus
- Opinion: women are still overlooked in the music industry
- The Whimsical World of Walt Disco
- Live Review: Northside Festival
- Live review: Dido at O2 Apollo
- Album Review: Reflections by Hannah Diamond
News
- “Claim our bodies. Claim our right. Take a stand. Reclaim the Night.”
- Strike Two: Lecturers and students take to pickets as pay and pensions dispute ramps up
- Greater Manchester named as “a bastion of climate action in the United Kingdom”
- Manchester City Council review plans for city’s “first zero-carbon business district”
- Council commisssion review of Gay Village
- Outbreaks of mumps reported at universities across the country
- The cost of helping students affected by Bolton Cube fire revealed
- Students call for an official prayer room in the library
- New mayoral budget to fund more police officers and fire service workers in Greater Manchester
- Takeaway owner given suspended sentence due to cockroach infestation
- UK universities ‘gagging’ student complaints of sexual assault
- University announces shift towards ethical procurement
- Cardiff SU President warns strikes could affect summer graduation
- Greater Manchester celebrates success in making neighbourhoods ‘age-friendly’
- Amphetamine overtakes cocaine as the second most popular drug in Greater Manchester
- Prime Minister gives go ahead to HS2 despite concerns in the North
- Government housing proposals not green enough say Greater Manchester Authorities
- Manchester town most romantic city in the UK
Opinion
- Why student support for the UCU strike is crucial?
- Do peer-to-peer shopping sites perpetuate the Fast Fashion industry?
- Black artists and the Brits: the politics in their performance
- Why I spoiled my ballot
- OnlyFans: an easy way out?
- Capitalism, global inequality and the climate crisis
- Impossible task of Manchester’s ‘Good Employment Charter’
- Student Voice: Valentine’s Day is bad from within and without
- Sex Education: the groundbreaking Netflix shows that represents us all
- JLo and Shakira put the ‘Super’ in Super Bowl
- The Academy consistently ignore this generation’s most dynamic cinema – but why wouldn’t they?
- Kobe Bryant: How should we remember the dead?
- “Got Brexit Done”: resisting Johnson’s culture war
- The Balancing Act of the Labour Leadership Race
- I fell off the social media grid for a year: here’s what I learned
- Meghan and Harry are finally getting their happily ever after
- Profiteering off veganism: are fast food companies actually doing enough?
- The Future is Feminist: lessons from our Latin American sisters
Science & Tech
- UoM scientists have found a way to stop breast cancer cells from spreading
- Climate change announced as the theme for Manchester Science Festival 2020
- Eugenics: The balance between morality and fact
- NHS data has potential beyond health care – but who should have access?
- UoM researchers investigate ways to delay heart failure progression
- The effects of climate change, and what we can do about it
- Greater Manchester’s zero-carbon by 2038 pledge: a disappointing start?
- New antiviral treatment developed by UoM using modified sugars
- Schoolchildren gather to discuss climate change at Manchester Central
- UoM researchers join team investigating cancer survival rates
- New digital solutions could end £9 million yearly energy wastage
- Why plants are the future: UoM hosts first TEDextra talk of the year
- Musicians on tour: the unsustainable impact on our environment
- Pharmacist service could save NHS £651 million
- How could science affect the General Election?
- Research shows musicians are more likely to suffer from Tinnitus
- UoM scientists turn environmental waste products into high-value chemicals
- Childhood Trauma and the Increased Risk of Borderline Personality Disorder
Societies
- Lack of inclusive cycling in cities excludes disabled cyclists
- UoM Trans Campaign calls for more gender neutral toilets
- Opinion: Local elections are key to climate action
- People and Planet UoM form alliance to remove BP’s influence over three universities
- Shift in priorities for Duke of Edinburgh award
- Confessions of a closet Tory
- Chinese New Year celebrations cancelled due to coronavirus concerns
- CoppaFeel say check your chest
- Young labour rebrand and regroup after election
- Five positive changes made by student societies this decade
- Young political societies debate in run up to election
- Divestment campaigns come together to pressure University
- People and Planet taking part in “direct action” after being ignored by university
- MLS Pride screening left us in tears – for all the best reasons
- Review: The Morning After the Fright Before
- Manchester’s young political societies respond to general election
- Languages societies hold talks on EU student life post-Brexit
- Korean embassy officer gives speech at SU
Sport
- PremFlix: an exciting opportunity to change football coverage
- Porto’s Moussa Marega subjected to racist abuse
- Opinion: The issue with British football academies
- Reekie’s magical kick
- Manchester City banned from European football after breaking financial fair play rules
- Diverse professionals and James Haskell’s MMA switch
- Sporting conversations with Hal Wood – UoM first team football captain
- Opinion: false promises and empty slogans show sport’s attitude to the environment
- Storm Ciara and climate change in football
- Do vegan athletes perform better or worse?
- Footballer at heart of Lords discussion
- Racking up those air miles
- South Africa – England ODI series: have we learnt anything?
- Kansas City Chiefs, Shakira and J-Lo all star at Super Bowl LIV
- Opinion: Football’s (not) coming home
- Sonny Bill Williams: the most expensive man in world rugby
- England stunned by fanatic French in Six Nations opener
- Droylsden F.C. – non-league football at its best
Theatre
- Bourgeois and Maurice’s Insane Animals – Press Event
- Preview: Zorro the Musical
- Review: A Little Space
- In conversation: Alan Silvestri, Glen Ballard and Bob Gale at the Back to the Future Press Junket
- Back to the Future – Press Junket
- Review: Extraordinary Wall of Silence
- Review: Welcome to Shangri-La
- Review: The Runway
- Review: Thriller – Live
- Review: Avengers: Ensemble (UMMTS)
- Review: We Will Rock You
- Review: Bost-Uni Plues (PUSH Festival)
- Review: Party Like Gatsby
- Review: Kneehigh’s Ubu!
- Review: The Strange Tale of Charlie Chaplin and Stan Laurel
- In conversation: Rikki Beadle-Blair MBE
- Review: An Act of Care (Push Festival)
- Review: Sound Cistem (Push Festival)
Uncategorised
- Preview: Isle of Wight Festival reaches its 50th year
- 2018 Festival Guide
- Life after university – choosing your graduate home
- ‘Punish a Muslim Day’ is a disgrace to our society
- Should I live at home or in halls?
- Recipe: Lamb Methi
- Exec results night live blog
- Recipe: Garlic Chicken Schnitzel
- E3 Look Ahead
- MMG presents: The official SU hustings
- UMMTS wins top awards at NODA
- Free Ahed Tamimi protest
- ‘Youthquake’ more anecdotal than fact, survey suggests
- Recipe: Christmas Pizzas
- Letter from the Editor – DO NOT PUBLISH
- Review: Armenia Taverna
- Live Review: BICEP at WHP
- Review: Abode’s Sunday Roast
