5th May 2021
As part of our elections coverage, Editor-in-Chief Jordan Hunter sat down with Scottish Green Party candidate and leader Patrick Harvie to discuss his party’s positions on the big issues affecting students and the broader community of Glasgow. Excerpts from the other interviews can be found here: https://glasgowguardian.co.uk/2021/04/21/meet-your-kelvin-candidates/ The interview can be found...
5th May 2021
As part of our elections coverage, News Editor Ollie Rudden sat down with Scottish Nationalist Party candidate Kukab Stewart to discuss her party’s positions on the big issues affecting students and the broader community of Glasgow. Excerpts from the other interviews can be found here: https://glasgowguardian.co.uk/2021/04/21/meet-your-kelvin-candidates/ The interview can be found here: http...
5th May 2021
As part of our elections coverage, Deputy News Editor Lucy Dunn sat down with LibDem candidate David McKenzie to discuss his party’s positions on the big issues affecting students and the broader community of Glasgow. Excerpts from the other interviews can be found here: https://glasgowguardian.co.uk/2021/04/21/meet-your-kelvin-candidates/ The interview can be viewed here: https://youtu.be/2...
5th May 2021
The Scottish Greens’ manifesto plans to end ties with the controversial Confucius Institute over ties to the Chinese Communist Party. The Scottish Green party has become the first major UK party to call for the termination of Confucius partnerships in schools and universities, adding to the renewed global criticism of the programme. The mission of ...
5th May 2021
As part of our elections coverage, Deputy News Editor Silas Pease sat down with Labour candidate Pam Duncan-Glancy to discuss her party’s positions on the big issues affecting students and the broader community of Glasgow. Excerpts from the other interviews can be found here: https://glasgowguardian.co.uk/2021/04/21/meet-your-kelvin-candidates/ Video can be found at: https://youtu.be/Edmzvwr...
5th May 2021
Your questions answered by our Views Editors. I’m obsessed with sex. My worry is that I’m using sex/masturbation as a distraction from my life problems. I’ve never been diagnosed with depression but I certainly struggle to see the point of getting out of bed many days recently. Is it unhealthy to use sex as a ...
5th May 2021
Is her literary success reflective of a society-wide mental health crisis? Ahead of the release of her third novel Beautiful World, Where Are You this September, the buzz around Sally Rooney’s writing does not seem set to diminish any time soon. The success of the TV adaptation of Normal People has only widened her readership ...
5th May 2021
Sophie Gorman explores what to do when the news and social media make activism feel all too much. “Doom scrolling” is a term that gained popularity during 2020, meaning consuming a large quantity of negative news online all at once. It’s hard to avoid this feeling of the world being a terrifyingly unjust place when ...
5th May 2021
Fionuala McCarron discusses the importance of pronoun checks in the context of debating and beyond. It has always struck me as odd that it is largely older and more Conservative people who refuse to use a person’s preferred gender pronoun if they don’t believe it matches a person’s gender identity. After all, it is this ...
5th May 2021
Candidates discussed gender-based violence, more support for students and changes to the healthcare system post-Covid. GUU Debating hosted a hustings on Wednesday 28 April which saw local candidates for the upcoming Scottish parliamentary election questioned by students. Issues of gender-based violence, tenancy and Covid-19 recovery were raised, and the all-important question of Scotttish Independ...
