1st December 2019 - The Glasgow Guardian



Exploring the unrelenting policing of female bodies

1st December 2019

Sofia Stephens Writer Content Warning: Contains discussion of sexual assault, discrimination and violence, based on sexuality, and mental health issues. Virginity testing, intended as the pseudo-medical procedure through which female “virginity” is believed to be determined, has controversially gained notoriety in recent weeks after Atlanta-born rapper T.I. confessed to subjecting his 18-year-...


Your guide to the 2019 strikes

1st December 2019

Jamie Quinn Writer Over the past week, teachers and support staff have been striking as part of the UCU over two things: the first, and the real big-ticket item, is the matter of how pensions are handled, which was also a major driver of the 2017 industrial action, but this is not the most important ...


Us + Them: Roger Waters’ concert film delivers the last goodbye to humanity

1st December 2019

Lucia Posteraro Writer Roger Waters’ music has the greatest sentimental value to me. A few months after my parents’ acrimonious divorce, during a car journey, The Dark Side of the Moon gave me and my father a chance to bond in a serene way over bass lines and psychedelic utopias. To this day, the same ...


Is lab-grown meat the future?

1st December 2019

Tara Gandhi Editor-in-Chief With the world growing more environmentally aware, more and more people are reducing their meat intake, conscious of the impact that animal farming is having on the planet. But what if you could enjoy a Big Mac that was grown in a lab? Can cruelty-free meat really exist? In 2013, the first ...


Review: Mac DeMarco @ O2 Academy

1st December 2019

Benjamin Coulson Writer Mac DeMarco delivers an expansive setlist during his O2 Academy show, laced with the usual mischief characteristic of his gigs and a few special delights to entertain the Scottish crowd. The crowd are in high spirits before Mac takes centre stage. An ode to the Limmy Show is displayed on the backdrop, ...


University considering new eco search engine

1st December 2019

Ollie Rudden Deputy News Editor The University of Glasgow is considering switching search engines on their computers to a website that helps plant thousands of trees.  Glasgow University on Ecosia (UofG on Ecosia), announced on their Facebook page that Principal Anton Muscatelli, and Chief Operating Officer and co-chair of the Sustainability Working Group at the ...


Review: Squid and Metronomy @ SWG3

1st December 2019

Charys Newton Writer Brighton post-punk five-piece, Squid, have generated considerable buzz over the last year, signing with Dan Carey’s label-of-the-minute Speedy Wunderground, impressing at SXSW and packing out tents at Glastonbury (complete with fans in papier-maché costumes). Their latest EP, the Carey-produced Town Centre, is a whirl of motorik rhythms and funk-punk weirdness that gobb...