Scene from Gothic Manchester – just one of HiP’s new features Words by Lisa Burns The launch of MMU’s new ‘Humanities in Public’ (HiP) programme last week attracted staff, students, guest speakers and successful alumni. They gathered in the university’s Geoffrey Manton building to kick off the year-long celebration of the Humanities. Hosted by the…

Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy with Mother Tongue Other Tongue winners Words by Amillah Javed. Drum roll please! The moment finally arrived to award prizes to the students who won the Mother Tongue Other Tongue (MTOT) Competition, 2013.  Mother Tongue Other Tongue launched last year to celebrate the range of languages found in schools across the UK…

Words and photos by Sophie Bannister Whitworth Art Gallery closed its doors earlier this month with a bang and a spray of colour in the form of the Whitworth Weekending Festival, and (lucky me!) the whole thing took place five minutes from my house. The festival, which was mainly based outdoors in Whitworth Park, was…

Neil Harrison explains why he would back the Top Gear tosser’s election campaign. Whether it’s a night spent with that ex, or another crushingly disappointing ‘meal’ at Pizza Hut, it appears that certain mistakes in life are destined to be repeated. If ‘to err is human,’ then to err and learn from it is often…