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Spineless<\/cite>, Lancaster’s alternative source of student news and comment, is no more. This is for the happy reason that the (officially anonymous) members of the Spineless<\/cite> team have now successfully graduated from Lancaster, leaving behind a 16-month archive of articles that dissected University House, the University Council and the students’ union alike. Coverage of the student rent strike in January to February 2021 (see also subtext<\/cite> 196<\/a>) was particularly detailed. subtext<\/cite> understands that the website, and its contents, will stay live for the time being at https:\/\/spineless.uk\/<\/a>. Farewell!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Spineless, Lancaster’s alternative source of student news and comment, is no more. This is for the happy reason that the (officially anonymous) members of the Spineless team have now successfully graduated from Lancaster, leaving behind a 16-month archive of articles … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":568,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[612,283,561],"class_list":["post-1515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-issue-197","tag-rent-strike","tag-spineless"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p99sHo-or","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1189,"url":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/subtext\/2020\/02\/19\/fearlessly-spineless\/","url_meta":{"origin":1515,"position":0},"title":"FEARLESSLY SPINELESS","author":"Johnny Unger","date":"February 19 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"Readers feeling starved of information due to subtext's relative infrequency these days (the more contributions and contributors we get, the more issues we'll put out - don't be shy!) can sate their hunger by visiting Spineless (https:\/\/spineless.uk\/), an online publication in the tradition of Lancaster's radical past, full of news,\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "news"","block_context":{"text":"news","link":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/subtext\/category\/news\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1209,"url":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/subtext\/2020\/02\/19\/subtext-192-strike-while-the-subtext-is-hot\/","url_meta":{"origin":1515,"position":1},"title":"subtext 192 – ‘strike while the subtext is hot’","author":"Johnny Unger","date":"February 19 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"Every so often during term time. 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