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Arts
- 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
- 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
Books
- 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
- Troubled Blood by J.K. Rowling: More troubling than troubled
- Shop local with Blackwell’s same-day delivery service
- Review: Inside Story by Martin Amis
- Spotlight: #Merky Books New Writers’ Prize
- GCSE syllabuses overlook BAME authors
- In conversation with Comma Press
- Lockdown read: The Unbearable Lightness of Being
- Review: Three Women by Lisa Taddeo
- October read: Their Eyes Were Watching God
- What to read next in Black History Month
- How to run a successful online book club
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
- 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
- Opinion: It’s okay if you shop fast fashion
- Your winter wardrobe staple based on your zodiac sign
- Untangling Curls
- Appearance in the age of Zoom: How to dress for a virtual class
- Style saviours you never realised originated from Black communities
- Beauty for all: Inclusivity and diversity in the cosmetic industry
- Styled, steamed, shimmered: Stories of second-hand September
- Moschino Spring 2021: Strings Attached
Features
- ‘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
- What a newfound lust for daytime TV tells us about student life
- Manchester students speak out about year abroad uncertainty
- Meet MUSKI: Manchester’s new, better-behaved snowsports club
- 13 miles, 3.5 hours, 3 centres: One student’s journey to get a coronavirus test
- Meet the Covid fighting UoM graduate making engineering history
Film
- 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
- Review: Borat: Subsequent Moviefilm
- Our favourite horror films for Halloween
- Chapeltown Picture House presents cult curation this Halloween
- Review: The Haunting of Bly Manor
- Review: Saint Maud
- International Cinema: France and Italy
- Grimmfest 2020: The Oak Room – a chilling tale of isolation and violence
- Review: Hubie Halloween
- Sharp dialogue and a killer cast – The Trial of the Chicago 7 reviewed
- A whistle-stop tour of heartbreak, family, and solidarity – Rocks reviewed
- Grimmfest 2020: Rent-A-Pal
- Review: I’m Thinking of Ending Things
- BAFTA introduces rule changes after #BaftasSoWhite controversy
- Upcoming releases: The films worth waiting for
Food & Drink
- 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
- Cheap and cheerful chickpea curry
- My Last Supper: Jay Rayner’s advice fresh out of the oven
- Cream of the crop! Vote for Manchester’s food and drink heroes
- Viva la vegan revolution: the junk food edition
- Fermented foods are more than a fad
- What comes first – the beans or the cheese?
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
- Welcome to the wonderful world of Food and Drink
- Stylish but straightforward: Basil Pesto
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 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
- 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
- SKUM: Manchester’s Bullingdon Club?
Lifestyle
- 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
- Freshers’ flu might be different this year
- Online freshers events: Your guide to connecting remotely
- Capitalism and capitalising on self-care
Music
- Maybe don’t stop talking Maisie – An interview with Maisie Peters
- A relaxing afternoon with Palace
- Grime for 2020 – electric flows with Geoblu’s latest single ‘Neck’
- Lockdown Vol 2: Albums to help you through a pandemic
- Speaking to Simon Colebrooke on 2 Bad Mice’s new imprint: Over/ Shadow
- Electro-pop protest : An interview with Ela Minus
- The same interview, a pandemic apart – In conversation with Mae Muller
- Cherry Blossom: Sweet talking with James from The Vamps
- Headie One’s EDNA: A new commercial peak for UK rap’s golden age?
- “Heroic, Hopeful & Springsteen like” – Amy MacDonald livestream review
- In Conversation with Paddy Hanna On Latest Album: The Hill
- Bouncing back with Bloxx – Talking Lie Out Loud
- Lose yourself in music again with James Bay live at The Globe
- Foals ‘Collected Reworks Volume III’ – A Review Hopefully More Creative Than Their Album Title
- Flyboy Jetty’s ‘Take My Side’ Music Video: A Summer Dreamscape
- Spacing Out: An Interview with Becky Hill
- Fake it till you make it? Beabadoobee is a force to be reckoned with
- “Raucous Rock N Roll Debut” – The Jaded Hearts Club Album Review
News
- Manchester SU staff speak out amid claims of ‘inadequate’ furlough payments
- UoM launch 24 hour mental health helpline and app
- Nancy Rothwell releases apology for not contacting Zac Adan
- Manchester City 1-1 Liverpool: Reds remain favourites in a crowded pack
- Internal Market Bill: What’s it all about?
- UoM Rent Strike reject University offer for 5 per cent rent reduction
- UoM security guards suspended following incident of racial profiling
- Horoscopes: Week commencing November 16th
- Deal or no deal? Brexit talks resume as deadline closes in
- Police descend on Fallowfield campus amid protests – in pictures
- Manchester students get creative with another halls protest
- Coronavirus in Kenya: How has the pandemic affected school children?
- You’ve got a friend in me: Join the SU Buddy Scheme now
- Police threaten to arrest students who attend Owens Park protest tonight
- Student action group UoM Rent Strike stage occupation of Owens Park Tower
- Horoscopes: Week commencing November 9th
- Mass testing for students proposed ahead of Christmas break
- Owens Park protests continue amid anger at University management
Opinion
- 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?
- Opinion: With a PM like Boris, of course the gym is staying shut
- Can we be unique in a postmodern world?
- Let’s talk about sex, BoJo: Shagging bans, dogging plans, and can you bang?
- ‘Entirely contemptuous’: Students rage as second lockdown beckons
- Why gendered meat eating has passed its expiry date
- Labour and anti-Semitism: Why this needs to be taken seriously
- Opinion: The Grimm reality of online university
- As QAnon takes the world by storm, don’t get sucked in by conspiracy theories
- Opinion: Forget politeness, we must speak out against Tory cruelty
- Your Pret BaFREEsta: Pret provides students with free hot drinks for a month
- ‘Substantial’ meals: Can I have a pint with that?
- After Abe: Where next?
- The Covid culture war: are we tearing ourselves further apart as a country?
Science & Tech
- 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?
- Five fun science experiments to try in lockdown
- Horse meat in your burger? Revisiting famous food scandals
- How does pulling an ‘all-nighter’ affect you?
- Archaeology: Using chemistry to retrace humanity’s footsteps
- Zoom has become everything, but is online learning a danger to us all?
- Astrology: Is it science?
- An ode to Garrett Morgan: The inventor of the smoke hood
- Top tips for a finding the perfect tech internship
- Online security: The way the cookie crumbles
- Housr: A Household Name?
Societies
- 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
- Chinese New Year celebrations cancelled due to coronavirus concerns
- CoppaFeel say check your chest
- Young labour rebrand and regroup after election
Sport
- 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
- Women’s T20 World Cup: A perfect ending
- My week on Huel
- Coronavirus creates uncertain sporting outlook
Theatre
- 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
- 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)
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
