Sleeping out with STAR and Amnesty International
Student Action for Refugees and Amnesty International groups at the University came together on Thursday 23rd February to protest against the destitution faced by asylum seekers. Over 120 campaigners...
View ArticleNews in brief – 24th September
Proposed Manchester City academy Manchester City football club have unveiled plans to build a new academy for training potential talent. The planned academy facility would be open for the 2014/15...
View ArticleManchester has highest number of hate crimes
Greater Manchester has the highest ratio of hate crimes in England and Wales, Home office data has shown. 17.09 out of every 1000 crimes are reported as hate crimes, 6.09 higher than the national...
View ArticleThe City for free
So you’ve made it to Manchester, the greatest student city in Europe. But after all of the frivolity of Welcome Week you come to realise that the student loan doesn’t stretch as far as you would like,...
View ArticleLib Dems call for public postgraduate loans
The Liberal Democrats have adopted a policy calling for increased funding in science and research. The policy, named ‘developing a future – policies for science and research’, calls on the Coalition...
View ArticleThe importance of allowing idiots to have their say
In the wake of the offensive amateur film Innocence of Muslims there have been calls from some quarters for new blasphemy laws in the UK. Whilst there can be no doubt as to quite how offensive this...
View ArticlePostgraduate loans – a better system?
The topic of whether or not we should have a public form of loans for postgraduate education has been floated, not for the first time, at the Liberal Democrat conference just last week. However, would...
View ArticleShould we value the National Student Survey?
The results of the National Student Satisfaction (NSS) survey, have been published to show that the University of Manchester has continued its tradition of getting relatively poor scores. We have,...
View Article“Oh, but it wasn’t rape-rape…”
The world is awash with what can politely be described as misunderstandings of what constitutes rape and what consent actually is. Whenever conversations on the topic spring up, the most marvellously,...
View ArticleShould the smoking ban apply to shisha cafes?
Yes: The government has decided to ban smoking indoors, and has failed to follow this through. The law bans all smoking indoors, with no clause to excuse shisha. All the justifications used for passing...
View ArticleThe importance of being accountable
The news section of last week’s paper was dominated by the shocking story of a Students’ Union executive member taking over a month of extra paid holiday and massively under spending their budget. What...
View ArticleDebate: should we care where our clothes come from?
Yes: To say that as a consumer you should have absolutely no cares for whether or not the people making your clothes have had good working conditions and a fair wage is to say that you should entirely...
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US Presidential elections – LIVE BLOG
15:48: Becky Montacute —States are starting to close their polling stations, Virginia’s closing soon, with a huge 13 electoral college votes. Actual stuff will happen soon! 15:48: Emma Bean...
View ArticleStoning Tories doesn’t give you the moral high ground
Protesters seem to have confused Sussex for Biblical times, as Tory MP Mike Weatherly found out when 50 pro-squatting protestors hurled rocks and other missiles at him when he came to speak at the...
View ArticleThe allure of languages
As a former languages student, it doesn’t seem particularly shocking to me that this is one the most common areas of course change in the University. Picture the scene, a green eyed first year,...
View ArticleWho does marriage equality benefit?
In the past week we have seen a key battle for LGBT equality fought and won, with a healthy majority in the commons supporting the same-sex marriage bill. This has been the culmination of a great deal...
View ArticleMy Political Hero: Tammy Baldwin
In the furore of the Presidential elections of 2012, many marvellous things occurred. Not only did the American people vote to keep Obama and reject the socially conservative republicans, rape deniers...
View ArticleShould Students’ Union executive candidates be allowed to campaign with iPads?
YES People walking into Uni in the week preceding the election do so wearing blinkers. The chalking on the floor, the brightly coloured posters wallpapering the Union, the banners flapping menacingly...
View ArticleSleeping out with STAR and Amnesty International
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View ArticleNews in brief – 24th September
Proposed Manchester City academy Manchester City football club have unveiled plans to build a new academy for training potential talent. The planned academy facility would be open for the 2014/15...
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