13th September 2018 - The Glasgow Guardian



The rent is up for Queen’s Park

13th September 2018

Rory Clark Sport Editor Scotland’s oldest club face eviction from the home of Scottish football Queen’s Park FC is the oldest association football club in Scotland. Although the club currently ply their trade in League 2 – the fourth tier of Scottish football – their lowly status actually belies the scale of their past successes. ...


Words for wounds

13th September 2018

Katie McPeake Writer Katie McPeake shares her experience of drawing strength through community You never think it will happen to you until it does. It sneaks up on you in the most unpredictable way, an abrupt ambush on your self-sanctity. One day you are the same old you, the next you find yourself another statistic ...


Review: The Miseducation of Cameron Post

13th September 2018

Manon Haag Deputy Culture Editor – Film & TV Director Desiree Akhavan comes into her own with heartfelt film on conversion therapy Trailers for Desiree Akhavan’s second feature hinted at a queer coming-of-age story following in the tracks of recent indie successes Call Me By Your Name (Luca Guadagnino, 2017) and Love, Simon (Greg Berlanti, ...


BREAKING: Glasgow women workers vote overwhelmingly in favour of strike action

13th September 2018

Isabel Thomas News Editor The ballot is said to be one of the largest ballots of women workers in the UK Female workers in Glasgow have voted 98 per cent in favour of strike action over equal pay claims. The ballot run by GMB Scotland which opened on 30 August and closed 13 September, is ...


‘Daddy’s Girl’ is privileged, not a prophet

13th September 2018

Laurie Clarke Editor-in-Chief Laurie Clarke responds to Emily Clarkson’s controversial Sunday Times piece Emily Clarkson recently made the rounds on Twitter, drawing praise and censure alike for her Sunday Times article on foregoing university. You probably don’t know who Emily Clarkson is, and reluctant as I am to identify a woman by her relationship to ...


Review: BlacKkKlansman

13th September 2018

Abi Menzies Writer On stage at BFi London for a Q&A after a preview screening of BlacKkKlansman, Spike Lee shrugs off questions about D.W. Griffith’s Birth of a Nation. The 1915 film is an overtly racist Civil War epic that portrays black people as spectacle and white people as heroes. When it was originally screened, ...