25th October 2018
Axel Koch Columnist – Music Music columnist Axel Koch takes a look back at Troye Sivan’s latest album Singing about the same stuff that pop songs have been about for decades, only from a queer perspective is hardly a distinguishing feature in 2018. Yet, on his second studio album Bloom, the 23-year-old Australian singer ...
25th October 2018
Adam Nicholson Writer How should we look at the work of violent artists? The reality is far from simple. There is a painting which hangs in Rome’s Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Antica, c.1599, entitled “Judith Beheading Holofernes.” It is one of a number of undisputed masterpieces by Caravaggio. In stark chiaroscuro, colours vivid, and with those ...
25th October 2018
Isabella Eastwood Writer By blaming violence on video games, the media misses its mark In December 1980, Mark David Chapman fatally shot John Lennon four times in the back. In February 1993, ten-year-olds Robert Thompson and Jon Venables kidnapped, tortured and killed two-year-old James Bulger, and in April 1999, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold ...
24th October 2018
Seán Westwood Writer Squash demands resilience, technique and timing. Seán Westwood explains why the sport is more accessible than you might think There are few sporting venues more intense than a squash court. Whether playing at the foot of the Great Pyramids for the El Gouna International or in the middle of Grand Central Terminal ...
24th October 2018
Georgina Hayes Editor-in-Chief Katie Allan was found dead after months of bullying, self harm and targeted strip searches at Polmont Prison On Thursday 25 October at 10am, the family of Katie Allan – a University of Glasgow student that died by suicide in Polmont Prison in June of this year – are to launch a ...
24th October 2018
Inanna Tribukait Reporter Every year, 32% of our plastic trash lands in the ocean. That is almost 25 million tons of trash. It seems unnecessary to mention how quickly climate change is advancing and how many species are going extinct every year. According to Nasa, 17 of the 18 warmest years since the beginning of ...
23rd October 2018
Axel Koch Music Columnist Kurt Vile brings his A-game to Bottle It In With his eternal stoner demeanour belying his prolific musical output, Kurt Vile has just released Bottle It In, his seventh solo studio album in only ten years, not counting the myriad of EPs he produced with The War on Drugs, and last ...
23rd October 2018
Amy Rodgers Deputy Culture Editor – Art Catch Crazy P play a rare Glasgow show this Friday Whether it’s through their productions, live performances or DJ sets – a night with Crazy P is a night well spent. Catch them this Friday 26 October at La Cheetah. This Friday Craig Moog and Dario Bernadi ...
23rd October 2018
Tara Gandhi Investigations Editor Tara Gandhi explores the history of colourism and its lasting impact across cultures Every few years, the topic of colourism crops up in the media and becomes an issue that is debated again and again. There was Kanye West’s 2016 casting call for “multiracial women only”, the infamous whitewashing of Beyoncé ...
23rd October 2018
Andrew Quinn Sports Editor Tired of watching Europe’s elite teams all the time? Looking for a new, niche club to tell all your less fashionable friends about? You’ve come to the right place. “Half of the Champions League games are rubbish, I’ve not even heard of some of the teams” blasphemed my dad as I ...
