26th April 2020 - The Glasgow Guardian



No more business as usual following Covid-19

26th April 2020

Kimberley Mannion Writer Should we blacklist businesses who have mistreated their staff during the coronavirus crisis when we are free to consume again? The last couple of weeks have been some of the most strange of our lives, as every bustling high street and rowdy pub across Britain is closed. Several “valuable” people have now ...


How little does sport matter?

26th April 2020

Craig Smith Sports Reporter In a time of global crisis, Craig Smith writes how insignificant the often faux-important world of sport seems on reflection. Sport undoubtedly pales into insignificance when considering the horrors that the world is currently facing. Liverpool raising the Premier League title is insignificant when faced with mounting deaths across the globe ...


Huawei and the 5G network

26th April 2020

Adam Verson Writer When we are told to worry about so many things, should the Chinese government spying on us really be a concern? A new network system has been in the works since 2018. In the last six months, the four major UK network providers (Vodafone, EE, O2, and Three) have all launched 5G ...


Review: Noughts + Crosses

26th April 2020

Hannah Patterson Views Editor Views Editor Hannah Patterson shares her thoughts on the BBC adaptation of Malorie Blackman’s Noughts & Crosses. When it was announced that the BBC were adapting Malorie Blackman’s Noughts and Crosses, I was a little nervous. A book that touched so many readers growing up was an ambitious thing to take ...


Pseudoscience in The Goop Lab

26th April 2020

Megan Farrimond Writer Megan Farrimond examines the Netflix documentary on Gwyneth Paltrow’s lifestyle brand. Since Gwyneth Paltrow’s lifestyle e-commerce brand Goop was launched in 2008 it has come under much scrutiny from trained medical professionals and scientists. The criticism levelled at the “L.A. lifestyle” being pushed by the brand, is due to the false and ...


Can the festival industry survive post-pandemic?

26th April 2020

  Joe Evans Writer A postponed festival just won’t be the same. With lockdown in full force and stricter enforcement being reportedly planned, it’s safe to say that the impact on the festival and touring industry has been massive. Glastonbury is just one of the big events to have been axed to ensure public safety, ...