June 2009 - Page 2 of 3 - The Glasgow Guardian



Making noise together

16th June 2009

Zoey Van Goey’s MJ McCarthy talks to Oisín Kealy...


One more cup of coffee

16th June 2009

Tom Bonnick The irony of Benjamin Obler’s debut novel Javascotia is that the very aspects that made it seem so promising a literary debut — a novel about coffee! In Glasgow! With sexy art students! — are, in fact, amongst its most negligible qualities....


Blissfully ignorant

16th June 2009

Bliss + Mud at The Tron is a superb double act, writes Dominic Maxwell-Lewis...


Celebrity Plague

16th June 2009

Jamie Ross Without celebrities, our lives would be vapid and soulless. Even the most worthless and unassuming object can instantly can fetch a king’s ransom on eBay if any celebrity so much as excretes a bodily fluid on it, and this is by no means a modern phenomenon....


A need for speedway

16th June 2009

George Binning Glasgow 52 - 38 Sheffield Guardian gets the back end out in the company of the fastest, loosest motorsport going - Speedway...


Counting down the seconds

16th June 2009

Ross McNab talks about the need to see continued investment in all levels of University sport...


In and out of print – The politics of language

16th June 2009

Tom Leonard, who retires as Professor of Creative Writing in September, recalls his editorship of GUM, and gives his views on news reporting...


The Thorn in China’s side

16th June 2009

Hannah Millar marks the fiftieth anniversary of the Tibetan uprising, and looks at the current situation with the troubled Himalayan region...


Past, present and future imperfect

16th June 2009

Postmodernism - where did it come from, and where is it going? James Foley discusses...


Head to head with Sir Muir Russell

16th June 2009

As he prepares to say goodbye to Glasgow University, Sir Muir Russell looks back on his six years as Principal and Vice Chancellor with Sarah Smith...