Among the predictable stream of condemnation for the ‘violent’ protestors on the December 9 demonstration against tuition fees, it was pleasing to hear David Cameron say that it was time to stop talking about them as a “small minority.” “There were,” he said, “quite a lot of people who were hell bent on violence and […]
It has been one whole year since Manchester City Council launched its climate change action plan, ‘A Certain Future’, so what has been achieved in that time, and where do things go from here? This was the question that was supposed to be answered on November 30, at the first annual stakeholder conference held at […]
Students have been occupying a lecture threatre at the University of Manchester for almost a week following the first decentralised national day of action against education cuts and tuition fees.
The NUS’s anti-cuts strategy is absurd and its proposals for funding reforms regressive. It’s time students regained control of the debate.
What a difference a year makes. Back in 2009, finance was public enemy number one. The lunatic expansion and under-regulation of dodgy financial services had precipitated an economic crash that destroyed tax revenues and stretched dole queues. The bailouts transferred tens of billions of public money into the black holes of bank balance sheets. If […]
As Manchester prepares for the Government’s Spending Review MULE tried to speak to Sir Howard Bernstein, the Council’s Chief Executive who recently dismissed calls that town hall chiefs should take pay cuts.
Gideon “George” Osborne’s budget has certainly been tough but, asks Tom Fox, is it fair?
