18th September 2022
Our features editor discusses the failings of our current approach to drug use in the UK and highlights the possibility for an alternative future. Drug culture is youth culture. As students in Glasgow, I think we can all agree on that, regardless of our respective dabbling statuses. The National Union of Students (NUS) revealed in ...
18th September 2022
Jeevan reflects on the importance (or unimportance) of obsessing over having the perfect balance in everyday life. CW: eating disorders “A balanced diet for women”; “a balanced diet for men”; “a balanced diet for toddlers”. All readily available on BBC Good Food, and well-intentioned, no doubt. Reference intakes and perfect portions to boot, these precise ...
18th September 2022
Basilia discusses the tribulations of growing up with a Scots dialect. I was in primary four when I first got told off for my accent. It was sports day; the teacher asked me a question. I responded with “Aye, miss.” Sternly, I was told never to reply that way again. Going forward, it would be ...
18th September 2022
With rising student numbers and the ongoing commercialisation of higher education is it still serving its original purpose? Encapsulating the philosophy of a Conservative government is the belief that university represents a marketplace of ideas, and functions as a market economy. Neither seem successfully apparent today. A university which has to accommodate freshers in a ...
18th September 2022
With the advent of freshers’ week 2022, it is important to reflect on some of the norms of student culture and how we can best avoid falling into unhealthy patterns of behaviour. Freshers week 2022 is once more upon us here at the University of Glasgow, and it promises to be as hectic, wild, and ...
18th September 2022
Writer Lorelai Patnaik shares the experience of her foray into the dating world, and discusses the priorities inherent to her standards for romantic attraction as a trans woman of colour. A while ago I wrote about what valentine’s day meant to me, as a trans woman of colour navigating the dating app Grindr. My experience ...
18th September 2022
As marching season comes to an end and Glasgow City council begins to publish findings from their consultation on the issue The Glasgow Guardian sits down with a leader from an Orange Lodge. Masquerading as a celebration of the Boyne on Byres Road, Glasgow’s in a unique position. Where else are such obviously divisive meetings ...
18th September 2022
More young people than ever before are citing financial difficulties as the top reason that their mental health is suffering. Another year, another World Suicide Prevention day spent speculating on how best to end the suicide endemic that envelopes this country. How do you stop a person’s thoughts from trapping them in a self-defeating cycle, ...
18th September 2022
With an autumn of discontent forecast amidst an unsustainable rise in the cost of living, should students take part in the Don’t Pay UK campaign? No one is immune to the cost-of-living crisis tearing its way through the UK at the moment, and when it comes to the national conversation there is talk of little ...
