• Entertainment, News

    Book Review: The Single Feather

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    By Jacqueline Grima  Disabled protagonists are few and far between in contemporary literature and indeed, when I flipped through my mental inventory of the many, many books I have read, I could barely think of one.  The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time?  Blind Mr Rochester at the end of Jane Eyre?  I…

  • Entertainment

    Game Review: Dying Light

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    Dying Light, from the developers of Dead Island, is yet another zombie-ridden survival horror game which pits you against the undead as you fight to find the truth behind the recent infection that has plagued one unfortunate part of the world. Thing is, unlike Dead Island and its sequels, Dying Light isn’t bad. In fact,…

  • Entertainment, News

    James Holt – ‘In The Face of It All’ Launch Night Review

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    By Daniel Fitton In launch of his debut EP ‘In the Face of It All’, Manchester singer/songwriter James Holt impressed a captivated audience at the King’s Arms in Salford last Saturday. With his rock ‘n’ roll / folk vibe, clearly inspired by the likes of Bob Dylan and The Beatles, Holt provided a superb performance in…

  • 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…

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