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 ...
7th November 2021
If you’re taking to the streets to campaign for climate justice, make sure you know your rights. The beginning of COP26 has incited a wave of environmental protests in Glasgow, with people of all ages and backgrounds taking to the streets to campaign for climate justice, legal change and government intervention. The issue of protest ...
6th November 2021
Extinction Rebellion sub-group “Scientist Rebellion” chained themselves together and occupied the bridge for three hours before arrests were made. Protesting the lack of action following the recent IPCC report, scientists from the Extinction Rebellion group “Scientist Rebellion” took non-violent action today by occupying the King George V bridge. After a three hour stand-of...
6th November 2021
Editor-in-Chief Lucy Dunn discusses her time inside COP26, day by day. Day 1: Sunday 31 October I’d applied for media accreditation at COP26 back in September, yet it was on the morning of Saturday 30 October, less than a day before the climate conference was due to begin, that I received official confirmation. Over the ...
