5th December 2019
Elspeth Macintosh Writer The Peanut Butter Falcon is a cheesy American coming-of-age film set in small-town North Carolina. It stars Zack Gottsagen as the main character (also named Zak), a young man with Downs Syndrome who sets out to escape imprisonment by his caretakers in a retirement home, and to reach his ultimate goal at ...
2nd December 2019
Andrew Quinn Deputy Editor-in-Chief National Theatre Live brings all of the top productions from British theatre to cinemas across the country and abroad. It means that you don’t need to trek down south, save money on tickets and can enjoy plays from a more familiar setting. What’s not to like? Showing plays in the cinema ...
2nd December 2019
Ethan Marshall Writer Transhumanism, or biohacking, is an international philosophical movement that suggests that a potential evolution of the human condition is integrating ever more sophisticated technologies into the body. This includes everything from magnets, LED lights, credit card chips, and electronic door keys. At its core, transhumanism is a philosophy that seeks change. It ...
2nd December 2019
Madeline Pritchard Science & Tech Editor Monos follows a team of child soldiers fighting a civil war somewhere in Latin America. It’s a deeply tense, unrelenting thing, but still far more joyful than expected. This is director Alejandro Landes’ second feature film, and is Colombia’s submission for the Best International Feature Film at the Academy ...
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-...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
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 ...
