13th November 2018
Kristy Leeds Writer Are you reading this in Glasgow? What if I told you that in 50 years, it is very likely that the building you are in right now will be flooded? Well, for starters, I don’t think you would believe me, but daughtingly, this could be the new reality for Scotland’s largest ...
13th November 2018
Makhib Choudkhuri Writer In music and sound, an echo chamber is an enclosed space that produces reverberations of sound, with a single noise echoing until it’s fully absorbed by the chamber. In social media it has a similar meaning: a confined space within which your thoughts and opinions are echoed by a similar group ...
13th November 2018
Kevin Le Merle Writer Kevin Le Merle raises the difficulty of sharing personal mental health issues. Mental health issues are becoming so widespread that they can now be considered normal. This is a huge problem when the diagnosis of a disease is made, thanks to the standard of what a normal healthy population ...
12th November 2018
Jamie Quinn Science & Tech Editor How the world’s most popular programming language went politically correct With just one line, “I’m closing this now,” Guido van Rossum, creator of the programming language Python, strolled out of retirement on 11 September to end a heated argument about the use of the terms “master” and “slave” ...
12th November 2018
Jordan Hunter Writer Jordan Hunter gives us a rundown of what the Midterm Elections mean for the rest of the world Tuesday 6 November produced some shocking revelations and has changed American politics for the foreseeable future – but not in the ways most students around here may think. The media are jumping to ...
11th November 2018
Naomi Gessesse Writer Itzhak, Humor Me and The Testament will form the Glasgow strand of the UK Jewish Film Festival 2018 Returning for its 22nd year, the UK Jewish Film Festival has programmed a range of films that explore the nuances of Jewish heritage on screen. As well as their annual film festival, UK ...
9th November 2018
Jonny Smart Writer “The funds raised by the Poppy Appeal are used to finance support for veterans of the British army; soldiers who have often been recruited from impoverished working-class communities. Having being discharged, these ex-Armed Forces members frequently end up battling with PTSD or other mental illnesses and an inhumane welfare system“ Last week, ...
8th November 2018
Max Kelly Deputy Editor-in-Chief Dark tourism, also known as grief tourism or black tourism, is an ever-growing phenomenon in which sightseers chase grotesque or macabre destinations, often places associated with suffering and tragedy. These dark places are wide-ranging and encompass human and economic disasters, as well as sites of atrocities and genocide. The Chilean ...
7th November 2018
Niki Radman Writer For the last ‘Creative Conversations’ before reading week, Louise Welsh was joined by novelist Claire McFall A Guardian headline from January reads “Hollywood buys film rights to debut novel by Scottish teacher”. The mysteriously unnamed Scottish teacher, whose Ferryman novels just received Hollywood’s approval stamp, is Claire McFall. The author of ...
7th November 2018
Linda Kerbl Writer A whisky at The Wee Pub, live music at Jinty’s, romantic dinner in The Chip – Ashton Lane has it all Upon arriving in Glasgow this September, everyone was gushing about a place called Ashton Lane, hidden in the heart of the West End, just behind Byres Road. As it’s so often ...
