Why Manchester Students’ Union supports BDS
University of Manchester Students’ Union recently passed a policy in support of the BDS (Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions) campaign. The average student may know that this is controversial, but they...
View ArticleProofreading companies: right words, wrong idea
Do you ever get tired of having to use certain words in your essays that create sentences which are grammatically correct and work together to build up a paragraph where, hopefully, each sentence makes...
View ArticleReclaim the Night: We do not live in a rape culture
On Thursday 23rd of February, protesters took to the streets of Manchester to “reclaim the night” in protest against “sexual violence against women, street harassment, rape culture and victim blaming”....
View ArticleAre the police letting students down?
Last week, my close friend was violently assaulted on Oxford Road in broad daylight. She was walking down the busiest university street a mere 200 meters from the Students’ Union. While heading into...
View ArticleWhy I’ve dropped out of the University of Manchester
A sigh of relief passed through my lips as I got off the East Midlands train from Manchester on the 29th January 2017, greeted by my mother with open, loving arms. I’d royally effed-up the only exam I...
View ArticleMen must listen to feminists
On Thursday 23rd, 2500 students gathered outside Owens’ Park for the annual Reclaim The Night march, a demonstration organised by the Students’ Union to protest the continuation of violence against...
View ArticleThe ‘Before I Die’ blackboard: Iterations and implications
Death works its way into the everyday imagination in myriad un-profound ways, a claim which this article might both explore and attest. Death in the glib sloganeering of mass culture rarely carries the...
View ArticleStudent elections and ongoing contradictions
I planned to write an article where you think it’s about one thing, but it turns out to be satirising something else. It was going to start off being about how it’s becoming increasingly difficult to...
View ArticleA culture of objectification, not rape
In a recent article, Catherine argues that the 2014 United States Department of Justice study — which reveals that, on average, one in 164 college women aged 18-24 reported experiencing rape or sexual...
View ArticleThe toxicity of student politics
Manchester Labour Students (MLS) has regularly grabbed the headlines of this paper over the past 18 months, and increasingly for the wrong reasons. But it was not always this way. I went along to my...
View ArticleManchester attacks: “I am writing this as a Muslim, a woman, a mother”
As you can probably tell from my name, I am an Arab, I am a Muslim and I am not British. The aim of this article is not to state that Islam is a religion of peace, nor to say that all these terrorist...
View ArticleIn it together? A welcome to Professor Osborne
Manchester has a fascinating political history full of controversy and societal change. But how will Professor Osborne cope with the controversy around his appointment? It has been two years now since...
View ArticleVoluntourism harms communities: make a difference, stay at home
It’s enticing, I know, to be a holiday humanitarian. Helping villagers in Third World countries seems charitable enough to counteract the hedonism of lavish vacationing — and it should, if our work is...
View ArticleOsborne at Stanford: the power of privilege and celebrity
The nation’s ex-chancellor Mr George Osborne has just accepted his seventh job as a visiting fellow at the prestigious Stanford University in California. He is also an honorary professor of Economics...
View ArticleIn solidarity with university staff over job cuts
Academic staff on campus today voted overwhelmingly to take industrial action in reaction to the announcement made by the University to make 171 staff redundant in May this year. The University...
View ArticleFree speech needs to be protected at universities
Free speech has certainly proved to be a contentious issue over recent years and this is especially true on university campuses. A report by Spiked earlier this year highlighted the astonishing levels...
View ArticleAnother look at the Balfour Declaration
Our university has come under criticism over the decision to host a ceremony, organised by Manchester’s Jewish community, commemorating the controversial Balfour Declaration. Some students have called...
View ArticleUniversities are not businesses
On Monday and Tuesday the 23rd and 24th of October, the staff and students of Manchester will demonstrate against the staff cuts proposed by the university administration back in May. The University of...
View ArticleThe widening gap between SU Exec officers and students
You see their faces on the Students’ Union website, plastered on the walls of the Union. Perhaps you’ve seen posters and banners hanging around campus encouraging you to vote for them, making pledges...
View ArticleWhy was there no official LGBT+ bloc at Reclaim The Night?
It was my third ‘Reclaim the Night.’ It was supposed to be the crowning jewel in my university life, so that when I graduated in about six months, I jumped into the world of work happily knowing that I...
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