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A defence of irony
Elliott Mills witters on for far too long; omnipresent voice Elliot Mills brings us back to a straightened-out meaning of meaning
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Student elections and ongoing contradictions
Elliott Mills illustrates how continued low voter turnout in Student Union elections is widening the gap between students and those representing them
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The 'Before I Die' blackboard: Iterations and implications
Elliott Mills illustrates how the 'Before I Die' blackboard, as well as other everyday features of Oxford Road, is a symbol for the cycle of life and death
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Proofreading companies: right words, wrong idea
T. S. Eliot examines proof-reading companies: are they killing the skill of writing a good essay?
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Hardy’s Well: a surface level re-reading
Elliot Mills muses on the existance of Hardy's Well and Lemn Sissay's wall poem
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Is 'relatable' online content homogenising us?
Our emotional and expressive capacities are changing the age of the meme
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Sankeys closes: who saw this coming?
With the closure of the beloved Sankeys, Eliott Mills turns his heart to a memory of his last trip to the infamous venue
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The half-empty promise of Dry January
Elliott Mills takes a stern look into the pint glass with a precise analysis of the merits, difficulties, and confusions of Dry January
Books
No end to Anthony Burgess
Elliot Mills argues the case for a place in the literary heritage of Manchester for Anthony Burgess, a man often left out of the narrative
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War on drugs: Fabric reopens the debate
With new rules put in place, Fabric is due to reopen, and with it the age-long debate on drugs is back
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Conspiracy theories take centre stage
Elliot Mills exposes the ridiculous arguments of today's 'conspiracy theorists', of whom many helped Donald Trump win the Presidency