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University round-up: Redundancies, Student Publicatio...
Who’s standing in Manchester’s Mayoral El...
Pro-Palestine groups occupy the Roscoe Building
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Manchester’s continuing problem with inaccessib...
From Our Correspondent: Uncovering Berlin’s les...
Thread Therapy: In conversation with UoM’s Fash...
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We need to politicise mental health
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Lower entry requirements for international students? ...
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Why are you laughing: The science of humour
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AI learns its first words (and helps explain how huma...
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Fallowfield’s 18.35%: Why are students not voting?
“They decided they didn’t want a Nightline any longer...
Spot checks on international students attendance set ...
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Celebrity style guide #6: Michael Schumacher
The new generation of F1 drivers: Wasted potential?
Tyrants cruise to playoff victory against Stirling Cl...
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Houseplant heaven: The best plants to brighten up your student home
Why is everybody obsessed with minimalism?
How to have a routine when you have so few contact hours
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Cooking a week of TikTok recipes on a student budget
TikTok and Teatox: Why social media is sucking the joy out of food
Margarita Month at Zouk: All style, less substance
Springleaf Podcast: James Acaster’s new audio adventure
My year abroad, the visa process, and getting lost in translation
Getting involved: Volunteering at the Booth Centre
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Zendaya and the art of theme dressing
Celebrity style guide #6: Michael Schumacher
Does Hailey Bieber’s Rhode phone case signal the death of the handbag?
Houseplant heaven: The best plants to brighten up your student home
17th April 2024
With the RHS Urban Show coming to Manchester, we've found some of the best houseplants to enhance your student accommodation
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Khruangbin’s LP, A LA SALA: Slight shifts make all th...
Declan McKenna live in Manchester: Seamlessly mixing ...
Thundercat live in Manchester: Bassist of all time?
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Boy Swallows Universe: Does reality make the best fic...
What to read in 2024: Exciting new book releases
Reading should be for joy, not health
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Review: Please Feel Free to Ignore My Work by David H...
Making Manchester #1: Anna Marsden
Four women who make the art world a better place
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Hedda review: A misguided imitation of Ibsen’s ...
My Beautiful Laundrette review: Nationalism, racial t...
Come From Away press launch: A community show for Chr...
Live Review: Caroline Polachek at Albert Hall
6th June 2023
Caroline Polachek stuns a sold-out Albert in her rescheduled show, touring her second solo album Desire, I Want To Turn Into You.
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SCALA!!! co-director Jane Giles on audiences, program...
Chungking Express: Intoxicating youthful cinema | UoM...
An evening with UoM Film Society and Chungking Express
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Taskmaster: Why it’s so good and where to begin
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Drive to Survive season 6: Get strapped in for more F...
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So, uh, who exactly is the Borderlands film for?
Celebrities just can’t rescue bad games
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SCALA!!! co-director Jane Giles on audiences, programming and being a first-time filmmaker: “There has to be room in the film world for all tastes”
16th April 2024
In conversation with Jane Giles, co-director of SCALA!!!, we discuss how she came to make the film, her career in programming and how the London cinema had lasting impact on young audiences
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UoM postpone Winter Graduation ceremony
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Winter Graduation ceremonies set to take place next week have been postponed due to Covid restrictions
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UoM make face coverings mandatory on campus
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Face coverings are mandatory in all indoor spaces across campus from today
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A different kind of long COVID
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In more pain than normal? Social distancing could be the cause.
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Déjà Review: The Woman in Black
Theatre
Jessica Hamilton reviews The Woman in Black at the Palace Theatre – the first show at the Palace since reopening after over a year
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The Show Must Go On: Where to catch theatre in Manchester
Theatre
An introduction to Manchester’s most well-known theatres
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Review: Boney M. featuring Maizie Williams at Hale Barns Carnival
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Head Theatre Editor Jay Darcy reviews Boney M. featuring Maizie Williams at Hale Barns Carnival
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Review: Opera North’s A Night at the Opera
Theatre
Theatre Editor Jay Darcy reviews Opera North’s A Night at the Opera at the Lowry – the first Mancunion Theatre review since theatres reopened in 2021
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How Snapchat’s ‘Memories’ feature made me nostalgic for life before lockdown
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Lifestyle Editor Rhiannon Ingle tells us how Snapchat ‘Memories’ has made her nostalgic during lockdown
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COVID-19, community, and café culture
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Rhiannon Ingle ruminates on the prominence of coffee and café culture during Covid
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Annie Dabb: Double or Nothing
Opinion
Annie Dabb looks into concerns that the pandemic may have reversed the impacts of modern feminism and sent us back to the era of 1950s housewives
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Drama society and directing virtual plays during a deadly pandemic
Theatre
Megan Drew accounts her experience directing a virtual play for the Drama Society’s Fringe Festival
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Don’t miss the Melanie Martinez livestream show tonight
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Melanie Martinez is following her K-12 Tour – which played Manchester in 2019 – with a worldwide livestream, titled ‘Can’t Wait Till I’m Out of K-12’
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Review: Jesus Christ Superstar, The Concert
Theatre
Olivia Castagnetti reviews a socially distanced, concert version of Jesus Christ Superstar at Regent’s Park Theatre
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National Lottery helps bring back theatre in time for Christmas
Theatre
Thanks to the National Lottery, Manchester Opera House is able to put on its annual Christmas pantomime! This years performance of Sleeping Beauty stars Jason Manford – with free tickets for NHS staff
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Let’s talk about sex, BoJo: Shagging bans, dogging plans, and can you bang?
Opinion
Can we have a shag in lockdown? What about in Wales? Or in a forest, with strangers? Pippa Dennis explores the rules for sex under lockdown
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Manchester University: Inside the protests that rocked an institution
Features
The protest began with rallies and chants, coloured with flares and protest signs igniting the dark Fallowfield skies
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“It’s time to organise and get involved”: Meet the students making campus SAFER
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Rent strikes, better crisis plans and ensuring staff safety: What are SAFER doing to help students through the coronavirus?
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UoM release Covid figures but students fear they could be much higher
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UoM’s Covid figures only include positive results reported to the University through an “agreed process”
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“It’s presposterous”: Students react to possible Christmas Covid restrictions
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Students feel largely let down by the government’s recent announcement regarding their freedom to return home at Christmas
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Manchester students face curfew after “significant” Covid breaches
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Greater Manchester Police were in attendance in Fallowfield
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