15th February 2017
Kate Snowdon Editor John Byrne’s Slab Boys trilogy focuses intently on the lives of a few characters from the slab room and design room of a local carpet manufacturer in Glasgow. Cuttin’ A Rug, the second in the series, concentrates on their annual staff party and the farce that ensues. Familiar to anyone who has ...
15th February 2017
Austen Shakespeare Reporter The wealthiest students are still more likely to enter universities in Scotland than the least privileged, according to recent UCAS figures. The number of deprived students going to university has increased by 0.8%, whereas the number of the wealthiest students has increased by 2.8%. The Scotsman claims that: “In 2006, 18-year-olds from ...
15th February 2017
Caroline C. Evans Abbott Writer Towards the end of January, a diverse group of Glaswegians descended upon the city centre in a show of solidarity and protest against United States President Donald J. Trump’s Seven Nation – or ‘Muslim’ – Ban, calling for immediate revocation of the order. Two crowds assembled in two separate locales ...
15th February 2017
George Marsden Writer An open-air art gallery is planned to open at Kelvindale railway station. The proposed West End gallery, which will be Scotland’s first of its kind, was dreamt up by Helen Ntabeni, a local resident and lawyer. Financed by Go Wild, Ntabeni would like to fill “the place up with art, both on ...
15th February 2017
Why Helen Fitzgerald’s Viral does not get to the cusp of the problem of slut-shaming Alice Dingle Books Editor Glaswegian author Helen Fitzgerald’s most recent novel Viral is a page-turner of a story. Young, adopted teenager Su, just entering adulthood, is accompanying her sister and friends to a party holiday. The gripping first line of ...
