27th January 2019 - The Glasgow Guardian



Popular local food vendor Falafel To Go ousted from Sauchiehall Street to make way for chain restaurant

27th January 2019

    Jen Bowey Deputy Editor Independent Glasgow food vendor Falafel to Go is to be evicted from its premises on Sauchiehall Street in order to make way for chain sushi restaurant Kokoro. Plans to renovate the current B-listed building were approved by the council and announced last week. Falafel To Go, which currently occupies ...


Let’s be honest about student halls

27th January 2019

  Jordan Hunter Writer I made a huge mistake in my first year halls choice: I chose Murano. And before you decide to not read another piece whining about the near-third world conditions that is this horrid hall, hear me out. When deciding to choose which accommodation to inhabit, I, being an international student and ...


Blasphemy laws are outdated and dangerous

27th January 2019

  Chris Dobson Writer On October 26 2018, the Republic of Ireland voted to decriminalise blasphemy. The last conviction of blasphemy in the republic was back in 1855, so this referendum was to some extent merely symbolic, removing from the constitution an outdated and irrelevant law. Still, before October 26, a person could still be ...


Should Andre Lohte’s The Negress be renamed?

27th January 2019

  Rachel Boyd Writer   Rachel Boyd questions whether Kelvingrove Art gallery should rename the infamous painting Earlier this month, Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum took the decision to rename Andre Lhote’s painting Negress, to Head of a Woman. Since the original acquisition of the painting from John Mathias in 1951, Glasgow Museums Resource Centre ...