October > 2010 > The Mancunion

Interview: Two Door Cinema Club

Alex Trimble, Kevin Baird and Sam Halliday, otherwise known as Two Door Cinema Club, are sitting backstage at the Academy…
Lack of faith in police was “sole trigger” for further riots

Report blames police inaction for spread of riots and warns they will happen again
Messing about on the quays

Review: The Wind in the Willows at The Lowry
Tributes to Manchester student and friend Rob McCormick

Tributes to student Rob McCormick, beloved brother, son, friend and housemate who tragically passed away on the morning of Sunday…
10 years on: Oldham revisited

Over a period of three days in May 2001, the former industrial town saw violent race riots, showing just how…
Is Christmas over-commercialised?

Oliver Harman and Oliver Bruce Taylor debate the age-old controversy of everyone’s favourite festive holiday.
Some staff ‘do not think that students are important’, says VC

Dame Nancy Rothwell has argued that the University of Manchester’s poor performance in league tables measuring student satisfaction is because…

News

Leeds University is considering providing a service to walk people home after a series of violent attacks on students

Spate of violent attacks on Leeds students

A series of violent attacks by masked men in Leeds have left ten hospitalized.... Read more

25,000 public sector workers strike over pensions dispute

Manchester city centre was filled with over 25,000 striking public sector workers on November 30th, protesting against the planned changes...... Read more

Poor Bristol students told to get a job

Bristol students who will no longer be elligible for a bursary under new proposals are being encouraged to support themselves...... Read more

Dame Nancy criticises fees policy

The Vice Chancellor of the University of Manchester has stated that the coalition government hasn't thought of the impact of...... Read more

Police hunt sex attacker after assault in Fallowfield

Man attacks student in Fallowfield Revolution bar... Read more

Politics

Revolution: The Arab Spring provided some of the most iconic images of 2011

Here’s to you, 2011

Riots in Britain and revolution abroad – it’s been a turbulent year in politics. Andrew Williams looks back, and asks...... Read more

“Social change sometimes happens in unpredictable ways”

Andrew Williams meets political activist Tim Gee, the author of Counterpower: Making Change Happen – a new history of protest...... Read more

The Levant Winter – Syria’s march to freedom

Hisham Omara leads our coverage of UMSU’s Middle East and North Africa Week with a deeply personal account of the...... Read more

Business

Christmas Market 2011 most popular ever

But is the Christmas Market a positive or negative force for local businesses?... Read more

Debate: Does business have too much influence over the government?

Oliver Harman and Scott McEwan express their views on the relationship between the private sector and the government.... Read more

Manchester design students launch charitable venture

“PiccoPrint represents an excellent example of students employing their skills learnt at university into business.”... Read more

Food & Drink

You’ve got the loaf

Get baking! ... Read more

Basics Bible

James Watts weighs the ups and downs of Sainsbury's Basics... Read more

Food and Drink Campus Map

Here lays the map of the best and worst of the Food and Drink available in and around the University...... Read more

Literature

Review: The Bride Stripped Bare

I don’t want to like this book. Not because it’s not a lucid, compelling collection of stories – I just...... Read more

Review: Michel Houellebecq – The Map and the Territory.

Described variously as the most important, original and talented author in France at the moment, Houellebecq’s latest novel has caused...... Read more

Book Club

This week, something about nosebleeds with Naila Missous.... Read more

Societies

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Pieboy clothing brings you the Official Manchester Scarf

By Fahim Sachedina The Manchester Scarf is finally here! From the people who brought you the “Manchester Beanie”, and delighted you...... Read more

Pieboy: Flashmob part 2

Next week sees the launch of Pieboy clothing’s Manchester Scarf. They’ll be running a pop-up stall every day outside the...... Read more

Get your work published with the Institute of Public Policy Research

Do your academic interests cover Global Politics and the Environment? Would you like to get your work published? This is...... Read more

Music

Interview: Vinnie Caruana (I Am The Avalanche)

Frontman and founder of I Am The Avalanche, Vinnie Caruana, answers some questions shortly before their show at Moho Live...... Read more

Live: The Swellers @ Academy 3

Mutual appreciation between band and audience make for a memorable night in Academy 3. ... Read more

Album: Four Year Strong – In Some Way, Shape or Form

Not an astounding effort from the pop punk quartet but impressive enough. ... Read more

Comment

Egyptians celebrate a step towards freedom

Arab Spring, Summer and Autumn 2012

With practically unforeseen uprisings in no less than sixteen countries, 2012 may see a distinctly more civilised world than 2011.... Read more

In defence of polyamory

The practice is perfectly suitable for some... Read more

You can buy extension cords for less than a fiver

Recently I have begun, or rather, attempted to begin, research for my dissertation (I won’t bore you with the title)...... Read more

Features

Libya’s art attack

Benjamin Wein looks at the cultural explosion occurring in Libya following Col. Gaddafi’s death. ... Read more

The ones that got away

Richard Crook takes a look at products that lost millions and embarrassed their companies, but played significant roles in the...... Read more

When Andrew met… Alistair Burt

Andrew Williams presents his complete, unexpugated interview with Foreign Office minister Alistair Burt MP - including discussion of the Israel-Palestine...... Read more