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    The People’s Budget

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    By Neil Harrison As George Osborne’s budget statement is dissected in all corners of the media this evening, numerous groups of campaigners and protestors will be descending on Manchester to deliver an alternative budget of their own. Organised by Manchester People’s Assembly, a number of campaign groups from around the region will come together to…

  • Entertainment, News

    Review: Sarah’s Key by Tatiana De Rosnay

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    By Naomi Daniel I first came across this book in June, last year, when it was given to me as a birthday gift. Not knowing the beauty that would spill from its pages, it simply joined the ever-increasing library of books in my bedroom, collecting dust on my shelf. After remembering it existed, I had…

  • News

    The Blue Tortoise

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    Words by: Sadna Choudhury My shoelace is gone off. I can’t tie it like Mummy can. It is getting dark outside. Big, tall lights in the sky have come on. I can’t see Mummy. Where is Mummy and Auntie Dee? Tommy said to wait, but I saw the blue tortoise and it was blue and…

  • News

    How Should Young People Burst The Westminster Bubble?

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    Words and Photographs by Neil Harrison The iDebate, Manchester Town Hall, 11th March: ‘A Generation of Young People Is Right To Give Up On Westminster Politics’? Arguably, the most striking element of this week’s iDebate was the prevalent consensus. Each of the Independent journalists and columnists on the debating panel acknowledged the fact that the current model of…

  • News

    World War One & The Ukraine Crisis – ‘The Pity of War’ Reconsidered

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    Words by Joshua Hill Niall Ferguson’s The Pity of War became strikingly relevant last week as, nearly 100 years after the outbreak of the First World War, Russian troops advanced into Ukraine, a move the Ukrainian government described a declaration of war. But while the former escalated into a global conflict, the latter has so…

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