7th November 2021
Boris, Biden and Bezos: Editor-in-Chief Lucy Dunn diaries day three at COP26. Morning I’d learned my lesson from the previous day: turning up early means early. I’d asked some of the journalists I’d been with on Monday what time they came in for. “Quarter to six,” one said, a bit too matter-of-factly for a reference ...
7th November 2021
A week has passed since the UN climate conference began, and a myriad of talks with names big and small have taken place over the last seven days. Which subjects are the big ones, and what has been said? And are we actually making progress? Editor-in-Chief Lucy Dunn summarises. Powerful remarks Many countries have made ...
7th November 2021
Day two inside COP26, and The Glasgow Guardian sees some famous faces. Day 2: Monday 1 November Told to meet at the “media meeting point” for 11.15am on the first proper day of the conference, turning up at 9am seemed like a good plan. What I hadn’t accounted for, however, was the sheer volume of ...
7th November 2021
There has been criticism levelled at the COP26 summit at the lack of intersectionality and racial justice, which proponents argue are vital to any solution to the climate crisis. Both the delegates in the blue zone and the most prominent activist groups such as Extinction Rebellion (XR) are perceived by some as lacking in ...
7th November 2021
The Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, insensitively compared the risks of the climate crisis to the effects of the Nazis, demonstrating how antisemitism still isn’t taken seriously. At the beginning of this week Laura Kuenssberg, the political editor of BBC News, tweeted “Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby’s here at COP too – tells me leaders ...
7th November 2021
The march set off from Kelvingrove Park and ended with a speech by Greta Thunberg in George Square. On Friday, 5 November, over 30,000 activists of all ages took to the streets of Glasgow to protest the climate crisis. The march started at 11:00am in Kelvingrove Park and ended in George Square. The day was ...
7th November 2021
Only Murders in the Building: a killer whodunnit-satire trapped by its sitcom sensibilities. Warning: Spoilers We begin as many true-crime stories do: in medias res as one character kneels before a freshly dead body, claiming to her flustered companions “it’s not what you think”. It’s the kind of genre touchstone that ultimately defines Only Murders ...
7th November 2021
Sports Editor Claire Thomson takes a look at the battle between comfort versus productivity. Last year, online university forced us to spend much more time studying in our bedrooms than we normally would, with many of us taking it one step further, and actually studying in our beds. Tell that to anyone and you’re met ...
7th November 2021
With overdone symbolism and overdone sex, Lola reports The Voyeurs a boring, try-hard romp. Sitting through The Voyeurs felt like watching a secondary school production of Hitchcock’s Rear Window except unnecessarily sexual, and set in Canada for some reason. The Voyeurs tells the story of Pippa and Thomas, a young couple who, upon moving into ...
7th November 2021
Health & Wellbeing Editor Rebecca Richard encourages aspiring writers to use the challenge provided by National Novel Writing Month to take the plunge and put word on paper this November. Writer’s block is the most frustrating phenomenon. I find myself getting really disheartened and not opening my work in progress for weeks, and this detachment ...
