Award-winning poet Helen Mort and renowned poet and novelist Blake Morrison discuss the central role place plays in their creative practice The Portico Library is set to award The Portico Prize next month, an exciting literary award celebrating contemporary writing that ‘encapsulates a sense of the North’. In the months leading up to the prize,…
By Amber Bogumil aAh! Magazine reported this week that many universities across the UK will be striking over staff pensions, pay and working conditions. Between the 25th November and the 4th December, members of the University and College Union (UCU) will be walking out of work in favour of industrial action. However, many people are asking…
By Isaac Blackshaw University lecturers and support staff from 60 universities across the UK will begin eight days of strike action today, amid disputes regarding staff pensions, pay and working conditions. The action follows similar strikes by the University and College Union (UCU) and Universities UK (UUK), which failed to come to a solution over…
By Amelia Britten Aitch broke into the UK grime/rap scene as a young artist over the past couple of years after releasing music videos on YouTube for songs like ‘Straight Rhymez’. Originally from New Moston, Manchester, it hasn’t taken the 19-year-old long to become an extremely successful artist with millions of fans obsessing over him….
Words and photography by Ben Townsend and Ben Thompson Hundreds of protesters marched through Manchester city centre yesterday, demanding the British Government help bring ‘justice’ to Hong Kong. Adorned with flags, banners and face masks to hide their identities, the pro-democracy protesters marched through All Saints Park, Deansgate and St Peter’s Square, calling for Britain…
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