• Lifestyle, Manchester, News

    ‘Where Next for English as a Lingua Franca?’

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    By Jacqueline Grima In the modern world of global economics, business and education, the predominant language of communication is English. Its position as the world’s most widely-used Lingua Franca – a language that enables communication between people who do not share a mother tongue – awards English such status that there are often calls for…

  • Lifestyle, News

    Multi-Lingual Life: Babel And Beyond

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    By Luke Spiby “Therefore its name is called Babel, because there the Lord confused the language of all the earth; and from there the Lord scattered them abroad over the face of all the earth” (Genesis 11:4–9). Babel is the supposed birthplace of the language barrier, and so Beyond Babel is a more than suitable…

  • Creative, News

    The Price We Pay

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    By Lydia Eve Grant We are shadows on the wall, burnt crisp as brutal sunsets blaze against the dying bursts of a million lights. Nuclear storms melt our frames, black soot cloaks jagged ground. Children gulp in toxins, drink in evil, tiny eyes go wide. Aware. Alert. Mothers scream and reach, desperate in their urge…

  • Lifestyle, Manchester, News

    Manchester School of Art Fashion Show

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      By Olivia Wright If you have Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, can read, or follow Kim Kardashian, you will know the past few weeks have been fashion and street style packed. But it wasn’t just New York, London, Milan and Paris who were treated to a touch of glamour, last week first and second year fashion students…

  • Entertainment, Manchester

    Stage Review: Blood Brothers

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    By Joshua Lee ‘Blood Brothers’ is one of the few shows which seems to always be playing somewhere across the country. From the West End to its hometown Liverpool, or being studied by endless GCSE drama students; it’s safe to say that the show is not going to have to take refuge in obscurity any…

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