Opinion
Britain needs a New Deal-esque pledge in next weeks Autumn Budget
Why Big Lip needs to pull the 'magic money tree' out of his arse and deliver before we've had it.
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Universal Credit - the flagship Tory welfare timebomb that students need to get clued up on
Final year students need to look now at their circumstances and understand what hardship could lie in wait for them if the Tories don't halt and fix this cruelly designed…
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In solidarity with university staff over job cuts
Stand against cruel and unnecessary staff redundancies
Opinion
Manchester Black cab drivers protest 'illegal out of town' drivers
Deregulation of licensing regulation has damaged the incomes of Manchester taxi drivers
Music
Gig Preview: Upclose: Manchester Camerata & Aziz Ibrahim: Lahore to Longsight
A story of his father, torn between the cultures of his home Pakistan and inner-city Manchester
Theatre
Review: When Both Sides Surrender
The 2011 riots are dramatised to tremendous effect, an excellent production by a local Manchester theatre