2nd March 2022
Join Editor-in-Chief Lucy Dunn as she interviews QMU presidential candidate Bailey McBride. It’s a day into the two-day polling, and The Glasgow Guardian speaks to Bailey about his plans to better welfare, mental wellbeing and engagement in the QMU next year. Click here to listen....
2nd March 2022
Lost to memory are the Barnard Castle eye test, Matt Hancock’s lockdown lover and #Partygate… for now. The pandemic has been anything but plain sailing for Boris Johnson’s government but the latest Covid-related scandal was viewed by many as the tipping point. The revelations of persistent streams of champagne fuelled get-togethers and quick trips to ...
2nd March 2022
Features Editor Niamh Flanagan discusses the trials and tribulations faced as self professed introvert trying to socialise at university. Introvert is a label I was assigned roughly around age 5. It has become an intrinsic part of who I am and how I perceive myself, and it’s something I disclose apologetically about myself to new ...
2nd March 2022
As election voting continues, and although Jenna Fraser couldn’t be available for a live interview, Multimedia Editor Fraser McFarlane quizzed her on her manifesto, her stance on the recent UCU strikes, and whether her lacking SRC experience is a quality that runs in her favour, or otherwise. Click here to listen....
2nd March 2022
Managing an eating disorder can be incredibly difficult and isolating, but Writer Flora Gosling emphasises: you are not alone. CW: Eating disorders. How do you feel when you look at cat food? Sure, it’s food, you can see that. You can recognise parts of it; chunks of meat, a bit of jelly, something dry and ...
2nd March 2022
The battle of living the student life with an eating disorder. Content warning: Eating disorders I consider myself to be a relatively brave person: the thought of jumping out of a plane, with nothing but a scrap of fabric to save me, thrills me, the dark intoxicating heights make me feel alive. So why then ...
2nd March 2022
Meg Russell explores the way that morality, politics and judgement is mixed together and served up with food choices. CW: Eating disorders Relationships with food are really complex. I obsessed over it for years: only ate certain things, didn’t eat, over ate, and hated myself and my body throughout. As I disentangled myself from the ...
2nd March 2022
Molly Mead argues why we should stop using the word ‘fat’ altogether and instead find a new vocabulary that does not attach negative connotations to a person’s size. CW: Eating disorders. Seemingly obvious yet systemically suppressed, a crucial fact to arm yourself with is that bodies come in a vast array of shapes and sizes, ...
2nd March 2022
Rinna Väre is running for SRC president this election season, and with a year’s experience as this year’s Gender Equality Officer on the council, News Editor Kimberley Mannion asks Rinna whether she is new enough – or not – to create the changes that the student body wants to see. Click here to listen....
2nd March 2022
As the SRC election voting commences, Editor-in-Chief Lucy Dunn interviews presidential candidate Jordan Hunter, whose manifesto consists of provision of narwhals on campus, the opening of a Wizarding Department, but most of all: change. Click here to listen....
