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Mercy review: 2026’s first sci-fi malfunction

Mercy review: 2026’s first sci-fi malfunction

Mercy is the latest piece of insufferable, pro-AI messaging, muled through the most ‘January’ movie of the century
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Geo-engineering the atmosphere: How can science buy us time in the Climate race?

Geo-engineering the atmosphere: How can science buy us time in the Climate race?

The Mancunion meets with the Univeristy of Manchester’s Professor Hugh Coe to learn about Science’s role in the Climate Crisis
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Lula: Hope for the world and a lesson for the UK

Lula: Hope for the world and a lesson for the UK

Lula’s lesson for the world is this: Hope in politics is not yet lost
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Opinion: Driving (HGVs) home for Christmas

Opinion: Driving (HGVs) home for Christmas

Johnson’s hypocritical good will gesture is rejected by migrants who can do better than play Santa to Brits this Christmas.
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“Environmentally conscious” UoM spent £250,000 on Amazon in 2020

“Environmentally conscious” UoM spent £250,000 on Amazon in 2020

Investigation reveals that 1 in 10 University expenses purchases were with Amazon in 2020
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Is ‘greenwashing’ by big tech deceiving us all?

Is ‘greenwashing’ by big tech deceiving us all?

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Amelia Cummins discusses whether large tech corporations are really as green as they seem.
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Review: Borat: Subsequent Moviefilm

Review: Borat: Subsequent Moviefilm

Outrageous, thought-provoking, and politically charged, Sacha Baron Cohen’s ‘Borat’ sequel has big swings but few hits
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Alexa – Zoe Bracegirdle

Alexa – Zoe Bracegirdle

In an analysis of the relationship we have with our technology, Zoe Bracegirdle writes a love poem to her Alexa
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National Companies Moving to Manchester

National Companies Moving to Manchester

A new wave of national and international companies are heading to Greater Manchester
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Review: Tawai

An at times touching depiction of the effects of deforestation is hampered by Parry’s poor direction
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The fallacy behind boycotting businesses

Boycotting products or services for allegedly supporting Donald Trump does very little to help the cause, writes Marina Iskander
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Review: The Grand Tour, Episode One

The boys are back in town. And in a similar vein to recent weeks, May and Hammond had the nation in stitches
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Where have all the book Amagone?

There’s a rumble in the jungle, but this time it’s our small book retailers getting knocked out
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Diary of a reluctant Kindle user

Now that the e-book apocalyptists have quietened down a bit, Joelle Jefferis turns to the somewhat more measured possibility of peaceful co-existence between books and their e- counterparts
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Creative writing professor urges ‘tax avoiders’ to fund libraries

Jeanette Winterson sees Starbucks, Amazon and Google as the key to saving the UK’s libraries
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Tax evasion campaigner urges Starbucks boycott

John Christensen, Director of Tax Justice Network supports direct action against tax-dodging companies
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Book Club: Francesca Freeman, 22, archaeology student

A ‘live’ conversation with Book Club turns from fantasy to the very real threat technology poses to reading
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