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Urinetown: The Musical review – UMMTS doesn’t piss about

Urinetown: The Musical review – UMMTS doesn’t piss about

UMMTS once again fails to disappoint. Urinetown, despite its name, is a delight (GASP!)
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Review: No Pay? No Way!

Review: No Pay? No Way!

No Pay? No Way!, a contemporary retelling of Dario Fo’s Can’t Pay? Won’t Pay!, is a raw reflection of reality that has you laughing through the pain
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Review: The Time Machine

Review: The Time Machine

The Time Machine is a fun, frivolous and unfaithful adaptation of H. G. Wells’ sci-fi novella
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Cannes 2022: Triangle of Sadness and ridiculing the rich

Cannes 2022: Triangle of Sadness and ridiculing the rich

Palme-d’Or-winning Triangle of Sadness is a wild, cynical satire ridiculing the rich in all possible ways.
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Aha! Alan Partridge comes to Manchester

Aha! Alan Partridge comes to Manchester

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Stratagem, starring Steve Coogan as Alan Partridge, plays at Manchester’s AO Arena as part of its UK tour
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How to: win an SU election

How to: win an SU election

Taking into account the behaviours and trends of past SU elections, here’s a handy (satirical) guide to winning your Officer campaign…
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Don’t look at the Don’t Look Up reviews

Don’t look at the Don’t Look Up reviews

Jay Darcy argues that the critical response to Don’t Look Up highlights the importance of the movie
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Don’t Look Up: No need for subtlety in McKay’s perfect satire for the modern world

Don’t Look Up: No need for subtlety in McKay’s perfect satire for the modern world

Full of black humour and intentional heavy-handedness, Don’t Look Up is a hilarious satire for our times and a wake-up call for humanity.
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Britain’s love of political satire has birthed the likes of Boris

Britain’s love of political satire has birthed the likes of Boris

Clementine Lawrence explores the ways in which political satire has become a double-edged sword
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Review: The Last Temptation of Boris Johnson

Review: The Last Temptation of Boris Johnson

Alexia Pieretti reviews The Last Temptation of Boris Johnson at the Lowry
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Is it Art? The house with too many sockets

Is it Art? The house with too many sockets

In this week’s Is it Art?, Chess Bradley examines a house in Pinner with too many sockets
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Cold War Steve: Art for the Brexit Age

Cold War Steve: Art for the Brexit Age

Is Cold War Steve the artist we need in these times of political uncertainty?
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Is it art?: MyManchester

Is it art?: MyManchester

In this ‘Is it Art?’, Chess Bradley considers whether the new MyManchester website can be considered art
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MIFTA Season: Preview: The Greatest Tory Ever Told

MIFTA Season: Preview: The Greatest Tory Ever Told

Anuli Changa talks to writer and co-director Roman Armstrong about the process of creating The Greatest Tory Ever Told
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Lean In: a satire

Lean In: a satire

Buckle up: the girl you love to hate spills her secrets on how to have it all.
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Review: Network

The four time Academy Award winning satirical classic
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The raw food reality

What happened when we logged the play-by-play of America’s most extreme diet
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Alternative uses: Coconut oil

This wonder-fat has hit the nation by storm, appearing both in the kitchen and the bathroom cupboards. From fat burning to flavouring, moisturising to cleansing, is there anything this palm extract can’t do?
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The Student Survey misses the point

Elliott Mills examines what the questionnaire tells us about university life
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Cheese pie

Food Editor and local vegan Ellie Gibbs whips up this healthy version of a pub food classic
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