25th October 2016
Marion Prieler Writer The Scottish Queer International Film Festival is quickly establishing itself as a leading platform for the screening and promotion of queer cinema. This year the festival showcased a wide range of genres and themes: from feminist pornography to old school horror. Often some of the bravest and rawest pieces at the festival ...
25th October 2016
Ryan Capperauld Writer Over the last five days, the Scottish Football Association might have started rethinking the World Cup campaign’s official slogan. “This Time” is already outdated. It could be changed to “This Time, same as usual”, since Scotland look as if they will yet again fail to make another major tournament. After Saturday’s shambolic ...
25th October 2016
Katy Scott News Editor The University of Dundee have disowned the controversial “Glasgow Effect” project set up by lecturer Ellie Harrison. She is currently being paid £15,000 to live in Glasgow for a full year. The project became a subject of controversy earlier this year when it was discovered that Harrison was funded by public ...
25th October 2016
Rebecca Norfolk Writer On the basement dance floor of Nice ‘n’ Sleazy’s I was welcomed into Queer Theory’s cabaret world. Having spoken to the organiser Dean Cargill, I was eagerly anticipating the acts to come. This was their fifth event, and I was impressed by the size of the crowd, and the good mix of ...
25th October 2016
Aileen Booth Culture Editor When we think of pornography we tend to think of laptop screens illuminating an otherwise dark (and probably messy) bedroom. We think of masturbation and taboos and deleted internet histories. For most of us, pornography could definitely be categorised as part of our lives – if not day to day then ...
25th October 2016
Osama Abou-Zeid Writer The University of Glasgow will use new funding from the Scottish Government to provide staff and materials for Catholic teaching qualifications to be taught at the universities of Strathclyde and Edinburgh. John Swinney, Cabinet Secretary for Education, announced the move as part of the Scottish Government’s commitment to combating the shortage of ...
25th October 2016
Katie Lawson Writer We all dream of a better life, whether it’s a better house, nicer clothes and shoes, not having to worry about bills or putting food on the table, or just wanting a plane to fly us to a tropical island; we all have aspirations, and Noha, Soukaina, Randa, and Hlima are no ...
25th October 2016
Erin Gallagher Writer ScotCen, a leading social research body used by the Scottish Government, have published survey results indicating a significant shift in public attitude towards same-sex relationships since the start of the millennium. The 2015 Scottish Social Attitudes survey revealed that the number of Scots who think same-sex sexual relationships are mostly or always ...
25th October 2016
Glasgow University is still a “World of Words”: an interview with Dr. Bryony Randall Caroline C. Evans Abbott Writer We are now in the midst of the unquestionably beautiful days of life in Glasgow – but with them, an analogy emerges with the bare branches of the trees. As students bundle up and leaves make ...
25th October 2016
New sequencing of the virus genome discovers immune response Katy Scott News Editor Scientists at the University of Glasgow have made a major breakthrough in defeating the Zika virus. The researchers recently succeeded in sequencing the full genome of the virus from a patient in Brazil displaying symptoms of the disease. They discovered that certain ...
