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Arts
- Art in Mancunia: Evie Spicer
- Is it Art?: French Orbeez Bath
- Art In Mancunia: Rebekah Knox
- Acid Maia: Absence & Absinthe
- Art in Mancunia: Twin Complex
- Art and Climate Change: reading Eliasson and Shelley
- Art in Mancunia: Kiana Kabiri
- Art in Mancunia: Dylan James and ‘The A4 Project’
- Art in Mancunia: Ryan Gear
- ‘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
Books
- My Thoughts Exactly – The feminist icon and legend that is Lily Allen
- Womanhood in A Thousand Splendid Suns
- Manchester: City of Literature
- Review: Homage to Catalonia
- Women’s prize for fiction 2020
- Unspeakable, John Bercow
- Review: How To Go To Work
- 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
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
- 10 sustainable beauty swaps
- 5 DIY beauty products to make at home
- 5 DIY masks to try whilst stuck at home
- Are virtual runways the next step for the fashion industry?
- Why Instagram influencers are important now more than ever
- The UoM based zine creating a space for discussions about blackness, beauty and community
- Moschino Fall Winter 2020 review
- Accounting for Style #5: good with money & charity shop devotee
- Film fashion icons: Thirteen’s Evie Zamora and Tracy Freeland
- The Ordinary: the brand making clinical skincare accessible
- So seventies: social activism and style
- The best dressed of 2020 awards season, illustrated
- The return of Y2K fashion: the generation that won’t grow up
- In conversation: Manchester fashion blogger, Sophia Rosemary
- The changing face of the influencer
- What to wear to the Women in Media Conference
- In the Beauty Bag #1: Mancunion Fashion & Beauty Editor, Alice Porter
- The political importance of Billy Porter’s iconic Red Carpet looks
Features
- Protesting during lockdown: How to make your voice heard safely
- Living in lockdown: Life in empty Fallowfield halls
- Don’t F*ck with Lambs: Manchester student discovers bin bags brimming with dead animals in Fallowfield
- Are our Students’ Union elections fit for purpose?
- Living in lockdown: Coronavirus and my year abroad
- In Conversation with Mark Thomas
- ‘Never Taught in School’ the blog that aims to “Educate and Embrace”
- Morning TV and its soft-conservative politics
- 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
Film
- Opinion: Netflix’s Reality Z is an apocalyptically bad reimagining of Charlie Brooker’s Dead Set
- Review: Normal People
- Opinion: Netflix’s Hollywood is a liberal fantasy
- ¡Viva! 2020: Esto no es Berlín
- Recommended: Top 20 British Films and TV Shows
- MANIFF 2020: Loop
- MANIFF 2020: Short Film Session 2
- MANIFF 2020: Up From the Streets
- MANIFF 2020: Let’s Roll
- Recommended: Feel-good films to lift your spirits
- Review: Kinofilm Spanish Shorts
- Review: And Then We Danced
- MANIFF 2020: Traumfabrik
- MANIFF 2020: Requiem for a Dream
- MANIFF 2020: Oh, Sorry
- MANIFF 2020: Amores perros
- MANIFF 2020: Sweethearts
- Opinion: The finicky fight for short films, funding, and finding resources
Food & Drink
- Viva la vegan revolution: the junk food edition
- Fermented foods are more than a fad
- What comes first – the beans or the cheese?
- Death Row Dinners: Musician Edition Part 2
- Star signs as meals: the most inaccurate article you’ll ever read
- Winner Winner Chicken Dinner: Mumma’s Fried Chicken review
- A third of all food is wasted and you’re responsible
- Unwrapping the Greggs vegan sausage roll
- Review: Three Little Words
- 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?
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
- What the future holds
- Ways to Eat – the Freshers’ guide to nutrition
- 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
- Banish those hangovers
- Welcome to the wonderful world of Food and Drink
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
- UCU: cutting staff due to coronavirus would be viewed as ‘unfair dismissal’
- Revealed: Disruptive UoM strikes were plagued by low turnout
- Cache-22: How has the shift to online learning affected Manchester students?
- Does UoM’s admissions process prioritise the privileged?
- Chinese embassy distributes coronavirus ‘health packages’ to Manchester students
- Stellify: supernova or black hole?
- Manchester students face racist abuse over coronavirus
- 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?
Lifestyle
- Capitalism and capitalising on self-care
- Cancer won’t wait so why should you?
- Let’s Get Away: Barcelona
- Cruel comparisons: The toxic culture of the ‘Before and After’ photos
- What does routine mean during this unusual time?
- Let’s Get Away: Berlin
- Ways to cope during a pandemic
- A conversation with Every Month Manchester: Period poverty is not on lockdown
- Manchester’s study cafés
- The unattainable beauty standards of social media
- Teacup puppies: the unethical practices behind the cute Instagram posts
- 24 hour study people and the Ali G
- Let’s Get Away: London
- International Women’s Day: now and then
- Being a man should not make you worth more
- Let’s Get Away: Glasgow and Aberdeen
- Me, my selfie and I: selfie dysmorphia
- UCU strikes and the impact on student wellbeing
Music
- Album Review: Rain Fire EP by Novelist
- EP Review: II by TNGHT
- Live Review: Jon Hopkins at Manchester’s Bridgewater Hall
- Album Review: Heaven To A Tortured Mind by Yves Tumor
- Songs for solace in self-isolation
- Live Review: Kisstory presents The Blast Off! Tour at Manchester Arena
- Coronavirus and cancellations: Navigating complaints in a crisis
- Live Review: Gentleman’s Dub Club at Manchester Academy 2
- Live Review: Jake Bugg at Mountford Hall
- Live Review: OHHMS at Satan’s Hollow
- Line ups, Locations and Living it Up: A 2020 Festival Guide
- Can musicians tour sustainably?
- Album Review: The Main Thing by Real Estate
- Electronic Sound Summit Review
- Live Review: The 1975
- Live Review: Cage the Elephant at Victoria Warehouse
- Live Review: Champagne On The Rocks at The Wardrobe in Leeds
- Live Review: The Mysterines at Deaf Institute
News
- UoM warns offer holders not to buy ‘unofficial’ freshers tickets
- Black Lives Matter: The peaceful protests in Manchester this weekend
- University of Manchester announce full divestment from fossil fuels
- Pay cuts, severance and unpaid leave: UoM announce voluntary cost-saving measures
- Greater Manchester homelessness charities appeal for support following warehouse raid
- Lecturers prepare for continued online teaching in September
- University of Manchester confirms September start date
- Class sizes set to increase following COVID-related cuts
- UCU respond to plans for staff pay cuts and terminations at UoM
- Durham University proposes controversial plans to move courses online
- UoM reveals potential loss of over £270m due to COVID-19
- SKUM indefinitely suspended from AU over “shocking behaviours”
- Manchester universities urge landlords to release students from contracts
- July graduation postponed due to coronavirus
- MANIFF 2020: Mosley
- UoM suspend all face-to-face teaching and close libraries today
- Students occupy university buildings for four nights in solidarity with UCU strikes
- International students flee UK as home countries lockdown
Opinion
- The government needs to do more to eradicate medical prejudices against the LGBT+ community in the UK
- Coronaspeak: What impact is the language of lockdown having on us?
- Outsiders, stockpilers, and socialisers: narratives of blame during lockdown
- WH3R3 4 4RT TH0U R0M30? Digital dating in the coronazone
- Third years have been cheated out of our final year of university
- The Long Goodbye: Riz Ahmed’s breakup with Britain
- How ‘the North’ became a baseless political football
- The true cost of tuition fees
- Colonial Museums in the 21st Century
- Colonialism and climate change: how renewables may continue this toxic legacy
- The myth of the good old days: why the world is better than it seems
- Why we shouldn’t be complacent about coronavirus
- Believing in Bernie is believing in the planet
- The BJP and its controversial Citizenship Law
- Opinion: The AU need to take swift measures against SKUM
- 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
Science & Tech
- These companies are still offering paid work experience despite coronavirus
- UoM alumni Thaddeus Anim-Somuah is listed in Forbes 30 under 30
- Google and Apple’s covid tracking software could see reduction in cases
- Black hole ejection behaviour observed by Jodrell Bank telescope array
- UoM study indicates unnecessary antibiotics prescriptions could lead to increased hospital admissions
- Women and STEM in the media
- Trials of a new drug have shown it can ease symptoms of a chronic cough
- Manchester: tackling climate change head on
- A new study identified risk factors for endometrial cancer
- Education and AI: tackling climate change
- Sharing of the sky at the Fanaroff lecture
- 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?
Societies
- Advocacy groups express concern about lack of representation in new exec team
- Table Tennis Club celebrates International Women’s Day
- Penis, vagina, pregnancy: Sexpression tackles the lack of LGBTQ+ specific sex ed in schools and on campus
- 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
Sport
- Social distancing: how to get your sporting fix
- Disappointment for the Lionesses
- Safety concerns over Fukushima opening the Tokyo 2020 Olympic torch relay
- Women’s T20 World Cup: A perfect ending
- My week on Huel
- Coronavirus creates uncertain sporting outlook
- The evolution of the goalkeeper
- United complete the double over City
- Sporting conversations with Michael Cousins – UoM first team water polo captain
- Opinion: when is it right to stop a game of football?
- Heather Watson wins Mexican Open
- Opinion: Tyson Fury is no hero
- Manchester City win third consecutive EFL Cup
- Germany pipped at the post by impressive Dutch squad
- Bliss at the Bernabeu and Europa League ease
- Italy cancels sporting fixtures as Coronovirus spreads
- School children banned from heading football in training
- Electric T20 final in South Africa
Theatre
- Review: We Won’t Fall
- Review: Opera North’s Street Scene
- Review: How To Keep Up With The Kardashians
- Review: Gorgon Westley’s Railway Cirucs (MIFTA)
- Review: King Lear (Shakespeare Society)
- Review: The Shadows (MIFTA)
- Review: monster/monstrum (MIFTA)
- Review: Vogue Ball of Atlantis
- Review: Augmented
- Will fans of Back to the Future enjoy the musical adaptation?
- Review: Back to the Future The Musical
- Review: Nut (MIFTA)
- Review: Birmingham Royal Ballet’s Swan Lake
- Review: Insane Animals
- Review: Super Duper Close Up
- Review: Queer Lady M
- Review: Indigo
- In conversation: Winsome Pinnock
Uncategorised
- Hero Training Club: “A new approach to fitness and wellbeing”
- 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
