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More evidence that Facebook is actively undermining society, and that we need to get people off it - residents AND councillors.
These days a playground fight will quickly find its way online, transformed into a proxy war onto which people can project their pre-existing beliefs.
Playground fights are as old as schools. Newsworthy playground fights are very much a modern phenomena.
Read our full story on the brawl below...
The recent Gorton and Denton byelection brought this area national attention, and Denton’s largely white population, meant the seat was viewed as a potential Reform gain.
One man I speak to says the area has gone downhill due to demographic changes. “It’s the Asians. It never used to be like this."
I’m at a corner shop in Audenshaw: The scene, I’ve just been told, of a vicious fight — one that has since been picked up by the national press, and termed a “mass brawl”.
Here, a man unspools a troubling theory: that a “race war” is playing out at a local school.
"Burnham has consistently called for greater government accountability... Having to be forced by journalists to release a report into how the GMCA lends hundreds of millions of pounds of public money to developers would appear at odds with that".
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🎶 Read your briefing in full here, which includes info on Nahum McLean's latest performance, as well as access to a limited number of free tickets to a concert at St Ann's Church this week.
Plus: 🩰Nahum McLean, a ballet dancer from Moss Side, is returning to Manchester in triumph after his career has seen him perform globally.
🚓 Gorton and Denton MP Hannah Spencer was ushered into a police car yesterday after an anti-far-right event turned violent.
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The top line: For seven years, an anonymous source leaked information to campaigners and journalists on the extent of Britain's toxic river scandal. Now, the identity of the whistleblower has been revealed: Wigan resident Robert Forrester.
‘Why the hell am I doing this?’ The man navigating Manchester’s biggest job
Students cheating via AI and international applications ‘tanking’ – Duncan Ivison is at the helm of a big ship in stormy waters
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“being a regular Mill reader is one of Ivison’s obvious virtues”
Well, he is a Political Philosopher.
“One thing we want is for our students to be telling us they’re receiving the kind of education, having the kind of experience, they’d hoped for and expected,” he says. “We haven’t done well on that front for many years.”
“Everyone I speak to about Ivison says he’s an unusually, almost freakily, great listener, something I’ve also observed during our time together,” writes @joshih.bsky.social.
Listening more closely to the students at the University of Manchester has involved hearing some difficult messages.
"The University of Manchester employs more than 12,000 staff and brought in £1.4 billion last year, more income than Manchester City and Manchester United combined."
An excellent profile, which shows Ivision as v. perceptive about the problems facing the city, as well as the Uni. Like UoM's previous 'non-UK' Vice Chancellor, Australian (the late) Alan Gilbert, Ivision has proved a positive choice. But whether he will achieve what he hopes, or burn out trying...
“My own view is that we actually don’t quite have the right ‘offer’ in the postgraduate coursework,” Ivison told The Mill.
He says a review is under way. “I don’t think we’re offering the kinds of programmes that students are looking for."
It was late autumn last year when staff realised applications from international grad students were 'tanking'.
“I became more aware of the panic around it in October and November,” one administrative worker told @joshih.bsky.social.
Over the past few months, I've been meeting Duncan Ivison, who in my view has the most important job in Manchester. I wanted to ask the vice chancellor of @officialuom.bsky.social about its reliance on China, the threat of AI and its relationship to the city.
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Today we profile the man who may have the most important job in Manchester. Duncan Ivison runs one of the country's biggest universities, but he faces "tanking" international applications and the threat of AI.
Can his new style of leadership work?
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From coddled egg 'sluts', to £15 sandwiches, Thursday afternoon was spent turning our hands to food criticism for one almighty feast.
See our rankings — from worst to best — below.
We've decided to settle it, once and for all.
Are Manchester’s viral food spots, ones with hundreds of thousands of followers globally, actually any good?
We fanned out across Manchester to Happy Lemon Kung Fu burger, Fat Pats, Morning Glory, Tabitha's, Onda, Eggslut and The Flat Baker.
From bins that 'wander off like cats' to a much-maligned 'super contract' with a private firm signed under the last administration, the reasons are as varied as the objects fly-tipped. But a motley gang are fighting back.
Read it below:
Over the last 20 years, we're told fly-tipping in Old Trafford has steadily increased to the point where “pretty much every road in the centre” is rife with old fridges and children’s toys.
But can it be solved? And who, or what, is to blame? Well, that depends on who you ask.
