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Arts
- Online Exhibition Review: Obstructions
- MACFEST: The power of community over isolation
- Art galleries aren’t a priority in a pandemic – but they are essential
- Materialise with the Manchester School of Art
- The Lurner Prize: the art prize for everyone
- Art in Mancunia: Summer-May Henry
- Is it Art? Student protest banners
- Art goes online
- What’s going on with Mary Wollstonecraft?
- Art in Lockdown: ’50 Windows of Creativity’
- Manchester and murals: Cultural resilience in the wake of ‘catastrophe’
- 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
Books
- Dissecting Boy Parts by Eliza Clark
- Review: The Fire of Joy by Clive James
- Review: Despised by Paul Embery
- Ghosting, ghosters and ghostees in Dolly Alderton’s Ghosts
- 12 books for Christmas
- Here’s what science writing can teach us about ourselves
- Winner of winners? Half of a Yellow Sun
- Marcus Rashford MBE has launched a reading campaign
- Non-fiction November: I Am Dynamite! A Life of Nietzsche
- In conversation with 21 magazine
- Five books to decolonise your bookshelf
- Lockdown read: Intimations by Zadie Smith
- Non-fiction November: Just Kids by Patti Smith
- How Bookshop.org is changing the world of books
- Review: Before the Coffee Gets Cold
- Spotlight: HarperCollins Author Academy
- Six book recommendations to get you through lockdown
- Non-fiction November: Free Will by Sam Harris
Creative Submissions
- The Moor – Freya Thomson
- Nocturnal – Tom Branfoot
- Lockdown Poem – Lucy Johnson
- Two Poems by Amatullah Hayat
- Closure – Heidy Lo
- Poems by Dana Kenzhekeyeva
- Alexa – Zoe Bracegirdle
- the last time we went to the library – Bea Bacon
- Lockdown haiku diary – Weng U Pun
- The lockdown that unlocked humanity by Haya Genawi
- Calling student creatives: We want you!
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
- Gimmick-free and gender-inclusive: the Manchester bodycare brand taking on the beauty industry
- POC around the block 4: Michelle Asare
- In the Beauty Bag #4: Fashion Editor Daisy Bradbury
- 10 Beauty swaps you should consider as the mercury drops
- POC around the block 3: Abigail Kwakye
- A Tough Act to Follow: In conversation with Max Hovey
- Why this Black Friday was the most damaging to date
- Black owned beauty brands that should be on your radar
- Embrace geek-chic this winter with Manchester’s best sweater vests
- The complete guide to makeup recycling in Manchester
- In the Beauty Bag #3: Culture editor Georgina Davidson
- Why we’ve had enough of designer labels profiting from ‘poor’ clothing
- Goldilocks and the Three Masks: Why the silk face mask is ‘just right’
- The Tur-Shirt Company: The Manchester company championing positive self talk
- Accounting for Style #7 – Urban Outfitters obsession and skincare struggles
- POC around the block 2: Tatiana Ngamba
- In conversation: Black in Fashion
- Cruelty-free skincare: Nourish your skin without compromising on ethics
Features
- LGBT+ History Month: How to celebrate from home
- What support is available for students staying at university this Christmas?
- Fighting the stigma with Students for Sensible Drug Policy: Manchester
- Meet the male social workers stamping out stereotypes
- The slow, cold abandonment of Manchester nightlife
- ‘I got stopped because I’m black and wearing a tracksuit’: Zac Adan speaks out at student protest
- Student protests are due a renaissance, Manchester has it covered
- From Manchester to Warsaw, the battle for abortion rights continues
- ‘Coronavirus: A Not-So Student Life’ is out now on Fuse TV
- I’m occupying Owens Park Tower, this is what’s really going down
- Manchester University: Inside the protests that rocked an institution
- I stayed up all night to watch the US election, here’s what you missed
- US election 2020: Your guide to election night
- US election 2020: Who’s going to win?
- University learning systems “excluding” transgender students, campaigners warn
- “It’s time to organise and get involved”: Meet the students making campus SAFER
- Important lessons we learned about black history from Gary Younge’s lecture
- Manchester arson victim given ‘life and hope’ after overwhelming fundraising response
Film
- Not much of a Twist in a modern Dickens adaptation
- Dragon Rider – a worthy adaptation or a bad rip-off?
- The perfect Pixar Short: Part 2
- The Prom – the inclusive feel-good musical we all needed?
- Does Wonder Woman 1984 live up to the first WW movie?
- Chadwick Boseman shines in his final role in ‘Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom’
- The perfect Pixar Short: Part 1
- Our favourite Christmas films
- Crock of Gold – A triumphant Shane MacGowan documentary
- Mank – Fincher’s take on creating Citizen Kane
- ‘Withnail and I’ in COVID-19
- Review: The Queen’s Gambit
- Review: Hillbilly Elegy
- ‘Another Round’ for Merry Mikkelsen?
- International cinema: Asia
- Review: Aunty Donna’s Big Ol’ House of Fun
- Tenet and time: The facts behind science fiction
- Remembrance and portraying war in film accurately
Food & Drink
- Festive treats: Cinnamon Palmiers
- 5 wallet-friendly superfoods you should be eating (and where to get them!)
- A simple Sunday roast
- Fancy food must-haves to treat yourself this winter
- How you can help tackle Manchester’s food poverty crisis
- The Food and Drink section’s ultimate Christmas gift guide
- Incredibly Easy Poutine
- A not quite authentic Aubergine Parmiagana
- Fancy a takeaway?
- Munching on cauliflower: Gobi Manchurian
- Easy vegetarian Philly cheesesteak
- Super easy vegan and vegetarian ramen recipe
- Review: Chit ‘N’ Chaat
- Sent straight from Heaven: Saint Croissants
- Restaurants and Indian Mythology: How it all started
- Tony’s Chocolonely: It’s time to change the chocolate industry
- Diving into Jamaica’s national dish: Ackee and saltfish
- Bread and Bowl: Teaching the industry a lesson on quality and quantity
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
Horoscopes
- Horoscopes: Week commencing December 7th
- Horoscopes: Week commencing November 30th
- Horoscopes: Week commencing November 16th
- Horoscopes: Week commencing November 9th
- Horoscopes: Week commencing November 2nd
- Horoscopes: Week commencing October 26th
- Horoscopes week commencing October 19th
- Horoscopes: Week commencing October 12th
- Horoscopes: Week commencing October 5th
- Horoscopes: Week commencing September 28th
Investigations
- ‘Can you make this for me?’: The student start-ups launched in lockdown
- Revealed: Freshers ‘put-off’ from accessing sexual health services due to University WiFi issues
- SafeZone: ‘Authoritarian’ or keeping students safe?
- Ranked: The AU sports teams with highest club night turnout
- ‘They tried to blame it on us’: Manchester student moved into Covid-positive accommodation
- ‘At home, I’m not scared’: Remote learning through the eyes of disabled students
- Revealed: How Manchester’s testing crisis is affecting students
- ‘Go to the shops or order a takeaway’: Fallowfield halls Covid chaos continues
- Here’s how Stagecoach will keep buses safe as students admit they’re ‘terrified’ to use services
- Investigation: Are UoM module cuts leaving students high and dry?
- 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
Lifestyle
- Saving Christmas 2020: Staying merry despite restrictions
- 5 wallet-friendly superfoods you should be eating (and where to get them!)
- Changing the world, one volunteer at a time
- How to live with lockdown, literature style
- Remote learning: Blues and growing pains
- Exploring Manchester’s green spaces with 100 Manchster Parks
- Exercise and mental health: lockdown tips
- Making it happen through manifestation
- Manchester’s love scene: All locked-down
- Zoom Halloween party: Your ultimate guide
- Big mood: How mood boards can change your life
- Nootropic thunder: Hands on with cognitive enhancers
- COVID-19: A new era of flying
- Be your own protagonist: Why you should be romanticising your life
- Vegan lifestyle beyond food
- The TikTokers promoting body positivity
- How to remain focused in a spinning world
- Top 6 shops for your new student home
Music
- An album to ‘shine some light to this somewhat difficult time’, Steve’n’Seagulls Melodic Harmonies
- “Entrancing and Energising” – Bicep Isles Album Review
- With Simple Tenderness: A Prestigious Debut by the Manchester-Based loz
- The enigma of Frank Zappa: ZAPPA documentary review
- Crock of Gold – A triumphant Shane MacGowan documentary
- Bombay Bicycle Club frontman Jack Steadman in conversation
- Anticipating Shame’s sophomore album Drunk Tank Pink
- Don’t miss the Melanie Martinez livestream show tonight
- UoM student wins Little Mix: The Search
- If this is the future of live music, ‘I Can’t Stand it’: Blossoms livestream review
- A Voice To Remember: Talking with Molly Hocking
- Beans on Toast: 2 for 1 on albums for your heart and soul this year
- Down by the River Thames with Liam Gallagher
- Pa Salieu talks new mixtape, Gambia and life in Coventry
- Record Reappraisal: My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
- A much needed dreamy escape in Hauskey’s debut EP Slow
- A Return to Form for Gorillaz on Song Machine, Season One: Strange Timez
- Futuristic dance euphoria: SHYGIRL’s ‘Alias’ EP
News
- LGBT+ History Month: How to celebrate from home
- “Entrancing and Energising” – Bicep Isles Album Review
- Editorial: Russell Group Student Newspapers for No-Detriment Policy
- Covid cases went undetected during student mass testing, study says
- Brexit: What on earth is going on?
- Polish students react to near-total abortion ban in their home country
- “Bleeding isn’t a luxury, no one should have to budget to bleed”: Scotland issues free sanitary products
- Get involved in the Christmas Pamper Shoebox Appeal
- “This is a way we can all be together again”: Streamers wanted for student Twitch channel
- #NoMoreNancy: Students launch campaign to oust the Vice-Chancellor
- Puzzle Page: December 4th
- No justice, no peace: Hulme’s fight against racism and inequality
- What really happened with the fences? University of Manchester releases inquiry findings
- Chaos in Fallowfield halls as students get trapped inside massive lockdown party
- Students win 30% rent reduction from University of Manchester
- Exclusive: Manchester University reveals Christmas plan to get students home
- Manchester SU staff speak out amid claims of ‘inadequate’ furlough payments
- UoM launch 24 hour mental health helpline and app
Opinion
- Holocaust Memorial Day 2021: What does it mean and why should we remember?
- Opinion: Students are struggling, it’s time for a safety net
- Opinion: The Republican Party is complicit in the attack on Capitol Hill
- Britain will be weaker on the post-Brexit international stage
- Annie Dabb on Biden’s all-female cabinet: Someone’s been paying attention
- There’s Far-mer where they came from: The Indian farmers’ protests
- From Netflix to jigsaws, what makes you smile?
- What does the fall of the Piccadilly Gardens ‘Berlin Wall’ reveal about us?
- We need to move on from Corbyn, he is leaving Labour at a standstill
- Time’s up TikTok: Here’s why I’m not wasting another 15 seconds
- The slow, cold abandonment of Manchester nightlife
- Annie Dabb: Fawke the fences
- Who’s to blame? Looking back at Covid restrictions
- Comedy shows are still caught up in class, we need to stop laughing
- Biden may have won the election, but he’s lost the Latino voting base
- Gen Z: If we are the virus, they are the vaccine
- Are romantic relationships really important?
- China: What relationship do we hold with dictatorship?
Science & Tech
- Protein folding: AI’s new frontier
- One small step for NASA, one giant leap for womankind
- Combatting conspiracy: The Grimes equation
- Beavers are back!
- Have we misunderstood COVID-19?
- Listening to nature in lockdown
- Fasting: Health trend or dangerous relic of the past?
- Here’s what science writing can teach us about ourselves
- How Jodrell Bank scooped the space race
- Relax, the vaccines are here
- Covid dreams and nightmares
- The need for routine
- UoM Computer Science Society event of the year: The Great Uni Hack
- Tenet and time: The facts behind science fiction
- From vaccines to climate change, why don’t we trust the science?
- AI in Teaching
- ‘It’s a hoax’: Trump’s era of science miscommunication
- It’s a small world after all?
Societies
- What’s On: UMDS Autumn Fringe Festival
- Autumn Fringe Festival 2020 Showcase
- Hyperloop Manchester: A student-led transport revolution
- Run Wild Manchester’s 24 hour virtual run to fight homelessness
- How debating changed for the better during COVID
- TSIS: Here are the top skills you need to make it a science graduate
- Looking to save lives? Here’s how
- Poetry pamphlets and pub quizzes: Lit Soc’s virtual freshers events
- Indian Society of Manchester to re-run election after complaints
- 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
Sport
- Project Big Picture explained: Can it solve football’s economic crisis?
- Diego Maradona: The Golden Boy
- Movember: How much UoM sports clubs have raised this month
- The Redemption of The Saints
- Long read: From Jimmy Butler to Jimmy Buckets, the heat Miami was missing
- Same game, new packaging
- English players in the IPL: From reluctance to acceptance?
- For Kobe: NBA finals review
- Lewis Hamilton and the future of Formula 1
- IPL: A business-cricketing joint venture
- Lancashire CCC defeat Sussex to reach T20 Finals Day
- Why Pep Guardiola must win the Champions League with Manchester City
- Indian Premier League: Most valuable cricket league in the world?
- Meet the UoM football clubs showing racism the red card
- Students react as United return to Champions League in final day drama
- Social distancing: how to get your sporting fix
- Disappointment for the Lionesses
- Safety concerns over Fukushima opening the Tokyo 2020 Olympic torch relay
Theatre
- A Tough Act to Follow: In conversation with Since September’s Patrick Ralphson
- Drama society and directing virtual plays during a deadly pandemic
- Don’t miss the Melanie Martinez livestream show tonight
- What’s On: UMDS Autumn Fringe Festival
- A Tough Act to Follow: In conversation with Max Hovey
- Autumn Fringe Festival 2020 Showcase
- Review: Jesus Christ Superstar, The Concert
- National Lottery helps bring back theatre in time for Christmas
- Peripeteia Theatre Company: A Digital Theatre Company.
- Drama and diversity – a conversation with Cecilia Alfonso-Eaton
- Review: The Believers Are But Brothers
- Coronavirus: What do the new tiers mean for theatres?
- The history of Black theatre in Britain
- The shows must go on: where to catch (socially distanced) theatre in Manchester
- Don’t cry over ‘Don’t Cry for Me Argentina’: musical theatre songs you misunderstood
- Theatre in crisis? How to support an industry in need
- Socially distanced theatre: Beverley Knight keeps the fire burning
- Naya Rivera brought so much ‘Glee’ to our lives
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
