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Arts
- Review: Ice Village
- Is it Art?: Lorraine Kelly
- MACfest: The festival we need in a divided Britain
- The Great Debate: What makes a liveable city?
- Design Manchester 2019 conference: being a SMART creative
- ‘Art in Mancunia’ 2020
- Art In Mancunia: Jamie Kirk
- Is it art?: Nancy Rothwell looking at things
- Lightopia: Heaton Park never looked so magical
- Is it Art?: Stand-up comedy
- Abstract: The Art of Design – Our Planet for artists
- The Politics of Dancing
- Is it Art? The house with too many sockets
- Review: ‘Leonardo: The Works’: an art lover’s dream, everyone else’s nightmare
- Is it Art?: The White Painting
- Preview: Stealing Sheep ‘“Big Wows” Video Series Premiere at Everyman Cinema
- The Bauhaus in Britain: Beyond Bauhaus at the RIBA
- Review: ‘What’s in a Mind?’: A Night of Poetry Looking at Mental Health
Books
- 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
- Review: ‘The Demon’ by Hubert Selby Jr
- His Dark Materials, a BBC adaptation
- Manchester hosts Make Yourself a Little Bit Famous launch
- Review: Robert Macfarlane — Underland
- Review: ‘The Testaments’ by Margaret Atwood
- Don Quichotte: Renewing old stories
- Opinion: Man Booker continues to fail black women
- Opinion: Marx and the issue of Apologism
- Unfollow: Growing up in the Westboro Baptist Church
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
- Accounting for Style #3: An identity crisis haircut and a perfume shopping spree
- This decade’s fashion is undefinable because it was obsessed with the past
- Opinion: Jeffree Star thrives on beauty YouTube’s drama-industry
- An ode to the fleece
- Review: Sustainable beauty workshop with LUSH
- The winter coat you should buy based on your Myers – Briggs personality type
- The best fashion podcasts
- Accounting for Style #2: Expensive taste and no control
- Opinion: Boycott Black Friday this November
- Clothes you can cycle to uni in that aren’t activewear
- How to sell pre-loved clothes online
- In conversation with Manchester fashion blogger, Onyi Moss
- Opinion: inclusivity in fashion needs to be sincere
- Realistic steps you can take to make more sustainable fashion choices
- The best second hand shopping in the Northern Quarter
- Opinion: Gucci’s history of insensitivity is a step too far for fashion
- Four autumn/winter wardrobe staples all students should own
- Opinion: Fast fashion is destroying the integrity of the fashion industry
Features
- 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
- DNAFit brings personalised biohacking to the people
- Life beyond Oxford Road – Studying abroad in your degree
- Nourished – Willy Wonka-ing the health industry
- In Conversation with Milimo Banji: How students can Tap In to careers
- The Mancunion conquer Treetop Trek
- Young People and Politics: How to make a difference with Amelia Womack
- In conversation: Sue Wilson, Chair of Bremain in Spain
- Manchester’s sweet escapes: The best places to explore
- Inside Talbot House: The Manchester learning disability charity
- Welcome to Uni! Now let’s budget
Film
- Review: Honey Boy
- Review: Knives Out
- In this year’s Golden Globe nominations, women are the losers
- Preview: Mimi and The Mountain Dragon
- In Review: The Best Films of the 2010s
- Review: Marriage Story
- A Film Lover’s Guide to Christmas
- Review: Frozen 2
- DéjàReview: The Shining
- The Old Bank Residency: more than a cinema
- MAF 2019: Ruben Brandt, Collector
- Review: The Report
- Opinion: Clueless remake will be a “full-on Monet”
- Review: Last Christmas
- Review: The Peanut Butter Falcon
- Review: Terminator: Dark Fate
- Review: The Good Liar
- Laugh at Little Brexit — if you can
Food & Drink
- 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
- An ode to chicken shop pizzas
- Bill’s grand reopening: what’s new?
- Alvarium Review: Vegan Food Gone Fancy
- Get excited for Manchester’s very own Peruvian pop-up, Peru Perdu
- Interrail Italy: The Food Edit
- An Ode To Hospitality: Hawksmoor is Heaven
- CulturePlex: Manchester’s Newest Ultimate Hangout
- The Caribbean Quarter: Sunshine Food in the Rainy City
- A Quick Tour of South African Food History and Culture
- The Groundnut Cookbook: The Supper club that brought African food to UK mouths
- Action Against Hunger: A Culinary-Charity Collaboration to Remember
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
- 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
- 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
- Year In Review 2019: Education Officer Olivia Meisl
- Year In Review 2019: Communities Officer Shamima Khonat
- Year In Review 2019: Welfare Officer Deej Malik-Johnson
- Year In Review 2019: Women’s Officer Sara Heddi
Lifestyle
- Getting the inside on outsider art at Venture Arts
- Let’s Get Away: York
- Dreaming of a green Christmas?
- Let’s get away: Valencia
- Get a houseplant: join the trend and watch the benefits grow
- Social media does help us feel a little less homesick
- Let’s Get Away: Kyiv
- Artdress-It Live: A night of Artistic Awareness with Mind and Movember
- It’s time to spill the tea on coffee
- Acknowledging history: talking about disabled people’s activism at GMCDP
- A visit to ‘The Vagina Museum’ London
- Feeling the SAD winter blues
- Peachy bums and perky pecks normalise plastic surgery
- Will your heart go on without ‘likes’ on Instagram?
- Opinion: A note on cultural appropriation of tattoos
- She was not asking for it: end street harassment now
- Fact or fiction? The reality of gym intimidation
- Let’s Get Away: A day trip to… Bradford?
Music
- Album Review: Everything Not Saved Will Be Lost: Part 2 by Foals
- Live Review: The Detroit Cobras at Gorilla
- Record Reappraisal: Unknown Pleasures by Joy Division
- Live Review: Jamie Lenman at The Deaf Institute
- Live Review: YONAKA at Academy 2
- Live Review: Mahalia at the Albert Hall
- Live Review: Whitney at the Albert Hall
- Live Review: Radical Face at Gorilla
- Live review: Oliver Tree at Manchester Academy 2
- Live Review: FKA Twigs at Brixton Academy
- Little Simz: Decade in Review
- Albums of the decade
- Live Review: Fuzzy Sun at Academy 3
- Review: Elvis in Concert
- Live Review: Vampire Weekend at O2 Victoria Warehouse
- Preview: Dido at Manchester O2 Apollo
- Live Review: Amanda Palmer at Albert Hall
- Live Review: Matthew Halsall at YES (Basement)
News
- Nominations for Student Executive Officers are open
- UK’s most prolific rapist convicted in Manchester Crown Court
- Afzal Khan: UoM should ‘get around table’ and negotiate with striking staff
- Senate 3 round-up
- GMCA commit to making Manchester a world leading city for STEM
- Greater Manchester named a top global region in tackling climate change
- UK’s highest mountains scaled to raise £25k for Manchester charities
- UoM confirms students won’t face any additional penalties for supporting strike
- GMCA agree official day of commemoration for Srebrenica victims
- £40,000 made available to students affected by the Bolton cube fire
- Northerners deck the halls earlier than the rest, study finds
- University of Manchester pays tribute to Jack Merritt
- Plans submitted to make Albert Square bigger and better
- UoM quietly report £40m surplus amid staff strike over pay
- UoM and the SU commit to reviewing investment portfolio
- “A call to arms to change”: Burnham joins student leaders in student safety talks
- Students march in solidarity with Boycott and Divestment and UCU
- Students launch organisation in solidarity with striking lecturers
Opinion
- Chilean protests: ‘It’s not 30 Chilean pesos. It’s 500 years!’
- Chilean protests – Police violence against women and LGBTQ+
- Chilean protests: Violence and social control
- Chilean Protests: A history of student rebellion
- “Every billionaire is a policy failure”
- Cambodia: 40 years later
- The disregard for Black Women and their boundaries
- Decrim now: why sex work must be decriminalised
- The Bolivian crisis represents the latest manifestation of American imperialism
- Consent: why do we still not get it?
- Students opinions on Gen Sec’s anti-vegan rant
- Light at the end of the Élysée Palace?
- Why are black men still the victims of racist media representation?
- Latin America burning: What the British people can learn
- Deepfakes and doctored videos: the new era of political propaganda
- ‘Bulldoze the estates’: how local and national responses to poverty miss the point
- Food For Thought: the botched morality of animal consumption
- Not another one! The generational stakes of the upcoming election
Science & Tech
- 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
- New student mental health service in Greater Manchester in motion
- Cancer research networking event for young researchers held in Manchester
- Liposome drug-delivery method to reduce brain damage in stroke patients
- UoM takes successful steps towards a sustainable future
- UoM scientists lead the way towards revolutionising radiotherapy research
- Cause of rare genetic brain disease discovered by UoM
- ‘Clean Air for Schools’ programme launched to tackle air pollution in Greater Manchester
- UoM study finds possible link between higher pain levels and humid weather
- Nourished – Willy Wonka-ing the health industry
- Activity trackers: a new potential solution for managing diabetes
- Google funds notorious climate change deniers
- New UoM study suggests targeting two faulty genes to treat leukaemia
Societies
- 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
- Black History Month: QTIPOC talk race and sexuality
- Cabaret for Freedom: A Celebration of Windrush
- How ‘Band-aoke’ is changing the socials scene
- In conversation with the president of UoM’s first ever Thrifting Society
- Run Wild member awarded Young Volunteer in the North West
- MUMS open with successful welcome concert
- Mountaineering Club reaches new heights of gender equality
- Campaign Supernova makes waves
- Musical Theatre Society get set for 2019/20
Sport
- 2019 Women’s World Handball Championship
- BBC Sports Personality of the Year 2019 preview
- Opinion: Amazon Prime is the future of football
- The best sporting moments of the 2010s
- FC United’s late goal crushes Lancaster’s comeback hopes
- Ballon d’Or 2019: A familiar face and USA’s talisman
- Refreshed England struggle in first test
- It’s more than just a game: when politics and sport collide
- Ruthless Rafa leads Spain to victory
- Opinion: Formula E is the future of motorsport racing
- Brutal knockout from Deontay Wilder sets up Tyson Fury rematch
- Charley Hull and Tommy Fleetwood come close to golfing riches
- Manchester Sports Awards 2019: The future looks bright
- International break: England’s 1,000th game
- North London derby breaks FA Women’s Super League attendance record
- World Para Athletics Championships draw to a close
- Opinion: More must be done to tackle homophobia in sport
- Opinion: Is money ruining football? It depends
Theatre
- Preview: Theatre Impossible – New Year’s Eve at Impossible
- Review: Roots
- Review: I’m a Phoenix Bitch
- Review: Snow White
- Review: The Secret Policeman’s Tour
- Review: Aladdin
- Review: 2084 – An Immersive Experience
- Review: Dr. Seuss’ How the Grinch Stole Christmas! the Musical
- Review: Light Falls
- The Mancunion’s fave shows of the 2010s!
- Review: The Little Prince
- Review: The Astonishing Times of Timothy Cratchit
- Review: Opera North’s La bohème
- Review: Legally Blonde (UMMTS)
- Review: One Mic Stand
- Review: The Duchess of Malfi
- Review: All I Want for Christmas is Attention
- Review: Plant Fetish
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
