16th November 2017
Osama Abou-zeid Writer Glasgow will be the first city to have a Low Emissions Zone (LEZ) put in place under the Scottish government’s programme. Work is expected to be completed by the end of 2018. The move was announced by Nicola Sturgeon in October as part of the SNP Conference in Glasgow, in which she ...
16th November 2017
Eamon Ewins Writer Taken at face-value, an alternative band from Norway, with an edgy sounding name, coming to play in a basement in Glasgow would strike fear in the heart of locals and ecclesiastics. But Sløtface (pronounced “Slutface”) aren’t here to subvert our moral universe – just for some good, clean fun as they tour ...
15th November 2017
Aaron Gray Writer A public fundraising campaign was launched in October 2017 to build a statue of late South African president and revolutionary Nelson Mandela on Glasgow’s Nelson Mandela Place. The campaign aims to raise £250,000 for the statute to be built. The campaign is led by the Nelson Mandela Scottish Memorial Foundation (NMSMF). They ...
14th November 2017
Osama Abou-zeid Writer Physicists Rainer Weiss, Barry C. Barish and Kip S. Thorne have been announced as the winners of the 2017 Nobel Prize for Physics, for their “decisive contributions to the LIGO detector and the observation of gravitational waves”. One half of the Prize will go to Weiss, while Barish ...
14th November 2017
Eamon Ewins and Sean O’Neil Writer and Deputy Culture Editor South Korea’s largest music showcase event Zandari Festa was given a bold Scottish injection at the start of the month as female duo The Twistettes took their high energy sound to the nation’s capital. Their irreverent punk ethos traces its roots to riot grrrl pioneers ...
13th November 2017
Tiffany Amberger Reporter The University of Glasgow has approved the first new building on the former Western Infirmary site. The first permanent building on the extension of the Gilmorehill campus will be the Research Hub. The University hopes to demonstrate its commitment to research with the building, which is due to open in 2020. The ...
13th November 2017
Craig Hale Writer Craig Hale argues that beliefs and actions outweigh identity Six of the seven Equality Champions at the University of Glasgow are white men, but does their demographic make them unfit for the job? What is the real question here? Would it have been asked if the Equality Champions were all people from ...
12th November 2017
Ash Neilson Writer Train at the O2 Academy While watching replays of Will and Grace, I was struck that, 13 years on, Eric McCormack was no longer the sharp suited sit-com Adonis of my childhood dreams. I had much the same realization at Train’s recent sold-out gig at the O2 Academy. Lead singer Patrick Monahan ...
12th November 2017
Chloë Spence Reporter The Glasgow School of Art (GSA) has faced criticism for its advertising of zero-hours contracts, with nationwide campaign group Betterthanzero suggesting that this is inconsistent with the School’s “progressive” reputation. The group drew attention to this alleged inconsistency in a post on their Facebook page dated 20 September, in which they shared ...
12th November 2017
Natalia Parker Writer This is the “For” piece in a For and Against feature. Read the “Against” piece here. For many, the arrival of your twenties can throw you into a crisis – you feel like you’re barely out of your school uniform and yet you’re expected to have some kind of “plan”. Last year, ...
