The Mancunion

3 weeks ago | mancunion.com | Ella Logan-Wilson |Lilian Mulholland

Simon Building occupiers described their experience with campus security as “humiliating and discriminatory” after a disabled student was locked out from lifts and bathrooms. On the evening of the 26 March, campus security placed a bike lock on the doors connecting Simon Building rooms 3.44A and 3.44B to the rest of the third floor. Due to the floor layout, students with accessibility needs could not access the lifts. Additionally, the women’s toilets on that floor were also blocked off.

1 month ago | mancunion.com | Poppy Clayton

It feels rare that films these days preach the message that a simple life can be a perfect one, or that ageing isn’t a punishment. Indeed, there are what feels like a bombardment of films surrounding age-gap relationships hitting the box office, telling their audiences that you’re never too old and that age doesn’t define you. But sometimes you can be too old. However that isn’t always a bad thing according to the latest instalment in the Bridget Jones universe.

1 month ago | mancunion.com | Poppy Clayton

We are currently in one of the most tumultuous periods of politics in recent history, and all eyes are on the White House. America’s new oligarchic government is a scary sight to see, and fashion has a bigger impact on politics than you might expect. Back in 2016 during Trump’s first term in office, many high profile designers who once held a positive relationship with the White House refused to dress First Lady Melania Trump.

2 months ago | mancunion.com | Lilian Mulholland

A Manchester PhD student has received a racist email after enquiring about accommodation on SpareRoom.com The student received the email from the host of the two-bedroom house in Hulme after enquiring about the accommodation. The unnamed landlord said that they would not accept a tenant “from the Indian subcontinent” because they “lie too much”, are “filthy”, and “abscond without paying dues”. The host wrote: “I have stopped taking Indian students for quite a while now”.

2 months ago | mancunion.com | Poppy Clayton

We’re back for a very special bumper edition of ‘fashion news in five’! Plenty has happened in the last couple of months, and we’re here to share it with you. Ellie Bamber (Nocturnal Animals, The Trial of Christine Keeler) is set to star in a biopic centred around Kate Moss’s relationship with the late artist Lucian Freud. Emmy winner Derek Jacobi (Gladiator, Hamlet) will be taking on the rule of Freud, who painted Moss during her pregnancy with daughter Lila Moss.