31st January 2020 - The Glasgow Guardian



UofG Principal and Vice-Chancellor respond to Brexit

31st January 2020

  Jordan Hunter and Rachel Stamford Reporter and News Editor The University of Glasgow released a video on 27 January featuring Principal and Vice-Chancellor Professor Sir Anton Muscatelli that outlines how Brexit will impact students, staff and their relationship with Europe. In the video, Muscatelli said that Brexit will not have an “immediate impact” on ...


BBC’s social media reform can’t come soon enough

31st January 2020

Leda Basile Writer It’s the dawn of a new year, yet the current atmosphere cannot be depicted in any substantial way as joyful or exciting. It more aptly resembles a house on fire: Brexit being dragged into another year, surges in homelessness, the climate crisis, and an overall political situation that makes everyone, from the ...


Commercialising couplets: exploring the poetry of Rupi Kaur

31st January 2020

Lotte Schuengel Writer Rupi Kaur is the writer of the decade – at least she is according to a journalist of The New Republic, who attributed this to her ability to make poetry accessible to the greater public, AKA smartphone users. He was soon met with scorn on Twitter, a medium that, ironically, restricts you ...


“Women aren’t funny” and other lies

31st January 2020

Anna Wood Writer The BBC has recently reported on a scientific study that has found that men are funnier than women. I’ll admit that, when I read the headline (as someone who considers themselves to be both a woman and a funny one at that), my heart sank. And then, once I’d done what any ...


TEDx hosts a salon

31st January 2020

Jordan Hunter Reporter TEDx hosted a mini conference on 22 January, in the run up to their main conference taking place on 1 March this year. Held in the Debates Chamber of the Glasgow University Union, the mini conference was one of many events in the lead up to their main conference. The purpose is ...