31 May 2010:  Twelve hours after the Free Gaza flotilla was fired at from Israeli helicopters in international waters, a protest was gathering outside the BBC on Oxford Road in Manchester. It has been a regular site for pro-Palestinian protests in the city since the December 2008/January 2009 Israeli attacks on Gaza. People considered the […]

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Sunday 20 June is Manchester Day – the city’s first ever. Dozens of colourful floats and thousands of people will take part in a parade to celebrate Manchester’s cultural diversity and creativity. That same day is also World Refugee Day – a fact conveniently forgotten. There are more than 20,000 refugees living in Manchester. Most […]

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To much fanfare in a speech in Manchester in 2007, David Cameron announced the launch of the “Conservative Co-operative Movement”, an organisation supposedly independent of the Conservative Party and designed to “campaign for the principles of local, democratic, voluntary, public ownership of public services and public facilities.”

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While our rulers claim to embrace democracy with a dangerous fervour, it’s probably fair to say that many of us have rather less enthusiasm for the elections that come around with such regularity.

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Alan Gilbert, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Manchester, has announced that he will retire at the end of the current academic year. Former Students Union officers Robbie Gillett and Jennie O’Hara discuss his record.

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Small Rocks is a collection of writing from people made destituteby the immigration system.

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Last year far right group the English Defence League (EDL) whipped up anti-Muslim sentiment across Britain by holding a number of high profile demonstrations against what they see as the creeping Islamification of British society. Last weekend saw their first march of 2010. MULE sent reporter Tim Hunt to his native Stoke-on-Trent to witness events.

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