
What do you want for Christmas?
‘For Taylor Swift to return to her country roots’
It’s that time of year again where we get drunk, make bad decisions and spend every last penny of our loans on beer and sausage at the markets.
If there’s one thing students know how to do it’s make tacky cheap Christmas decorations until there’s more fake sparkle than a cheap strip club.
But we do we want from our parents? Before everyone goes home and pretends to be revising for January exams we asked some of you what pressies you’re looking forward to this Christmas.

Gluhwein, bratwurst and expensive trinkets. It’s all part of Chirstmas.

Shake it off

In fairness they are half a dog tall and at least a dog and half long but incredibly cute.

That advert hit us right in the feels
Dr. Custard the taxidermist bear gets lonely too and that soppy penguin advert didn’t help.

Just don’t leave the moldy stuff in the fridge when you go home.
As long as your not the crazy OCD cleaning flatmate, nobody likes that guy.

Sorry Josh, but no
Now go home, get inappropriately drunk at that family party and avoid talking to the racist grandparent and the cousin you can’t stand after that wedding last year.

What it’s really like behind the scenes at BBC Newsround in Salford
Don’t lie, you defo wanted to be a Newsround presenter growing up

University of Manchester to award Matt Hancock honorary degree
The uni is also exploring the idea of offering a degree to ‘someone off Love Island’ to ‘balance it out’

Applications for The Tab Manchester’s editorial team are now open
Come join the UK’s biggest student news publication

Hundreds join Reclaim the Night protest through Manchester
The protest left Owens Park and marched towards Oxford Road

Women in Media conference coming to Manchester this week
The conference is run by UoM students and supports charities MASH and Care4Calais

Andy Burnham to cap Manchester bus fares at £2
The new fares are part of a wider move towards ‘London-style public transport’

‘I’ve received calls from friends crying’: Ukrainian students share the reality of the war
We spoke to four young Ukrainians about their personal experience with the ongoing war

Manchester uni students come together to support Ukraine
At least seven cars’ worth of donations have been gathered so far

Fallowfield students hold vigil for car crushed by tree
‘We felt a little crazy with our candles and the Cars soundtrack playing over a Bluetooth speaker’

‘The future is bleak for academics’: Manchester Uni staff on why they’re striking
‘Academics are financially, physically and mentally stressed’

Man Met fresher died after slipping from halls staircase in tragic accident
‘He always wanted to make people happy and laugh’

The Manchester Tab is recruiting – come and join our team!
We’re holding an open meeting this Friday at 5pm in the University of Manchester SU

Manchester Uni students occupy Simon Building in support of UCU strikes
‘The fight against pay inequality needs the support of every student’

Over 18,000 votes were counted: Now we can officially reveal Manchester’s favourite club
We all know Manc’s nightlife is better than Leeds and cheaper than London but which club is students’ favourite?

Manchester dad who lost 17-year-old daughter to suicide raises over £800,000 for charity
The money is being given to Papyrus, a charity for the prevention of young suicide

A Manchester student house with Pride flag in the window has been egged
‘When I saw it I had a little cry, I wouldn’t expect this here’

In pictures: Manchester’s Kill the Bill protest on Saturday
Hundreds took part and marched through Manchester city centre

Kill the Bill protest returns to take over Manchester city centre
Hundreds of people marched through Manchester against the proposed policing bill

7,000 of you voted: Now we can officially reveal Fallowfield’s favourite takeaway
It seems Manc students just can’t get enough of chicken, kebabs and everything in between

Body found in search for student Charley Gadd
Charley went missing on the December 11th after visiting Warehouse Project

A Depop seller has refused to send someone an item because they’re ginger
They said it was ‘company policy’ because ginger people have ‘demonic energy’

Derry Girls has come to an end but these 54 memes and our love for it are eternal
Derry Girls will never die x

Here are 21 of the *best* reactions to the Wagatha Christie trial
Happy Wayne Rooney court drawing day, to those who celebrate

Guys! Made in Chelsea’s James Taylor and Maeva D’Ascanio are engaged!
‘I have everything I have ever wanted’ 🥺

Lost WhatsApps and Peter Andre’s ‘chipolata’: Rounding up the Wagatha Christie trial’s key moments
‘Arguing with Coleen is like arguing with a pigeon’

Government plans to cap student loan interest rate, saving graduates hundreds of pounds
The student loan interest rate is currently set to skyrocket to 12 per cent by September

These 37 memes about Bling Empire season two stir even more drama than Kane
I don’t care how many people know I’m obsessed with Anna Shay

Christine Quinn accuses Selling Sunset producer of misconduct
She claimed he told her to ‘kill herself’

Geordie Shore babies: These are all the cast members who now have children
Marnie has just had her second and Charlotte is pregnant!

Christine Quinn just claimed she gets paid the most out of the Selling Sunset cast
She claimed there are three different salary tiers

As a queer person I loved Derry Girls, but last night’s episode has ruined it
I am sick of shows like Derry Girls destroying lesbian happiness

Benefit Cosmetics called out for influencer trip to Hawaii despite overtourism concerns
Hawaiian locals have asked for tourists not to visit as they claim they are damaging the islands

Derry Girls creator reveals the storylines that didn’t make the show, and they’re so good
Sorry but we were ROBBED of seeing Orla play Romeo with Jenny Joyce as Juliet

The 30 greatest Charli XCX songs of all time, ranked from iconic to life changing
I will be shouting ‘DON’T MAKE ME BEG FOR YOU’ on my death bed

Here’s where characters from Netflix’s Heartstopper would go to uni in the UK
You can’t NOT see Tao at UAL with that hair

Everything you need to know about Camille Vasquez, Johnny Depp’s lawyer
Has she ever represented a celebrity before?

Cherie and Jessey suddenly left Bling Empire in season two – you’re probably wondering why
It all happened amid the drama of Jessey having a ‘second family’ 👀

Who is Crystal? The mysterious ex-wife of Jessey Lee from Bling Empire
No, her Instagram bio doesn’t say she divorced a millionaire to find a billionaire like they said on the show

Depp v Heard: How did Amber Heard get her role in Aquaman?
Johnny Depp’s lawyer grilled her on it during yesterday’s questioning