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We need to politicise mental health
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Fallowfield’s 18.35%: Why are students not voting?
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Celebrity style guide #6: Michael Schumacher
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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...
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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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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...
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Taskmaster: Why it’s so good and where to begin
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So, uh, who exactly is the Borderlands film for?
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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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Oversharing and Generation Facebook
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With uploading every aspect of our lives onto the internet becoming more normalized, Cecilia Bicknell paints a dystopian view of our oversharing habits.
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I love the smell of paper in the morning
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Nowadays we choose cheap thrills over classic knowledge; the book must not die
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Careers Corner: Founder of ‘Facebook’ for Student Employability
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One of the founders of Kloodle, Phil Hayes, talks to Robert Firth about how they started and the graduate job market today.
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Switch Off Social Media
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Now we’ve left our teenage years, is it time to stop fretting about how many Facebook likes we have? Charlotte Wheatcroft thinks so
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Facebook may soon promote extremism
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Lauren Wills: Facebook is an egotistical façade perfect for extremism, and it’s going to get worse.
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Does social media connect people?
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David Brierley and Samuel Gilmore respond to the pressing question about the imposing effects of social media; is it, or is it not beneficial?
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Facebook: the new King Maker
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After a spate of human rights pages being deleted from Facebook, Lauren Gorton asks whether it is taking its history-making role seriously
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Students perform ‘neknominations’ during lectures
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In one case a student dressed up as Robin in a University of Manchester politics lecture
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I swapped Facebook for knitting and won’t ever look back!
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Arts Editor Abbie Roberts on the addictive procrastination alternative to social networking and its hidden associations with crime.
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Idiotic Internet Trend of the Week: NekNomination
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The latest internet super-craze “NekNomination” has swept the globe. Give it a rest, says Sophie Lipton
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Has the world of social networking distorted our views on happiness and success? Beth Currall thinks so
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Manchester student profiles uploaded to Ratemash
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Dozens of Facebook photos have been used without students’ consent by a controversial website branded “creepy” by the NUS
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Lost and disenchanted: Murakami and the student experience
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Ross Graham explores the parallels between Murakami’s evocation of ‘60s students life in Norweigian Wood and 21st century student life…
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Manchester Uni Facebook page for ‘hilarious confessions’ launched
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Facebook pages created for Manchester university students to tell all their shocking stories
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The unofficial Freshers guide to scams
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Every year students are being scammed, but what is anybody doing about it?
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Facebook ‘rioter’ jailed
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A man who encouraged rioting in Manchester using Facebook has been sentenced to three years in prison
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