23rd October 2018
Jack Corban Views Editor As per usual on a Friday evening, or any evening actually, I find myself in Wetherspoons: cheap food, cheap alcohol… What’s not to like? But if you’re a “remoaner” like myself, you’ll find the beer mats and the menu rather discomforting. “FREE TRADE (ie NO DEAL) MEANS LOWER PRICES” they declare. ...
23rd October 2018
Sam Doak Reporter The Home Office has reversed its decision to deny a visa to a Bosnian national hoping to attend a conference at the University of Glasgow. Nadza Dzinalija is currently enrolled at the University of Amsterdam and is working towards a Master’s Degree in Psychology. Dzinalija was initially told that her ...
23rd October 2018
Sam Doak Reporter This comes after an estimated £7.5 million repair bill Glasgow City Council has announced that the People’s Palace and Winter Gardens will close indefinitely by the end of the year. The decision to close the venue was taken due to safety concerns regarding the structural integrity of the Winter Gardens. According ...
23rd October 2018
Sam Doak Reporter The Centre for Contemporary Arts reopened last Saturday after months of uncertainty around the future of the space. The venue was forced to close its doors this June as a result of a fire that gutted the nearby Macintosh building. Following the fire, many businesses – the CCA included – were ...
23rd October 2018
Sam Doak Reporter Council provides update on which services are to be affected by strikes taking place at the end of the month Glasgow City Council has released guidance on which services are likely to be most affected by this month’s industrial action concerning equal pay. Over eight thousand council workers are set to strike ...
22nd October 2018
Jenny Cameron Writer With the CCA under threat, there seems to be a trend occurring amongst arts spaces in Glasgow Following the blow of the closure of The Arches a few years ago, Sauchiehall Street’s Centre for Contemporary Arts (CCA) is now under threat after another fire at the Glasgow School of Art’s Mackintosh Building. ...
22nd October 2018
Lewis Paterson Online Editor A balanced look at anti-tech parenting When the TV presenter Kirstie Allsopp announced that she had “smashed” her kids’ iPads after they broke screen time rules, it was the peak of a summer of stories that had seen children and teenagers’ uses of tech scrutinised beyond comparison. Headlines included the story ...
22nd October 2018
Bethany Woodhead Views Editor There are so many issues students must deal with while attending university: deadlines, debt, fights with friends, bereavements in the family… and break-ups. Unfortunately, we’ve all been there and perhaps even just the words “break-up” are dragging back memories of dark nights spent listening to depressing music and crying into ...
22nd October 2018
Niki Radman Writer An ongoing series of talks hosted by the University’s Creative Writing department Jane Harris is standing behind the podium, her gaze sometimes detaching itself from the text and wandering off into the audience over the square frames of her glasses. As she reads from her first novel The Observations, Harris’ voice travels ...
21st October 2018
Ruairidh Barlow Writer Why are the people in these deprived areas being helped to fulfil their potential in uniformed youth groups and not with the Educational Maintenance Allowance? The Guardian headline revealing that the Tories plan to “enlist” disadvantaged children in uniformed groups such as Scouts, Guides and military cadet forces has an uneasy feel ...
