30th April 2023
Commonwealth bronze medallist and ex-Scottish badminton player Susan Egelstaff discusses her experiences as a student, a professional badminton player, and now a sports writer for The Herald. Susan Egelstaff, ex-professional badminton player for Scotland and Great Britain, discusses her experiences of being a student during her professional badminton career. Egelstaff won the bronze medal in ...
29th April 2023
Glasgow University Netball Club were one of three university teams to be included in the newly-created National League for the best netball clubs in Scotland. Back in November 2022, The Glasgow Guardian spoke to Niamh Fitzpatrick, Goal Attack (GA) for Glasgow University Netball Club’s (GUNC) first team. Fitzpatrick had stressed the excitement within the club ...
29th April 2023
Baroness Meta Ramsay reminisces on her time at the University of Glasgow and her friends from those days who went on to lead New Labour. Baroness Meta Ramsay’s career since graduating from the University of Glasgow has not been short of drama nor prestige. Since her days frequenting Gilmorehill as President of the Student Representative ...
27th April 2023
Australian three man band DMAs returned to a Glasgow audience last week, with their last stop in the city having just been last Halloween. My co-editor attempted to review that last gig, but it was branded “lazy journalism at its best” by a reader named George. This time then, I have been tasked with trying ...
26th April 2023
Following our story on the University of Glasgow agreeing to offer places to female Afghan students in its medical school, should the UK Home Office bring them to the country, The Glasgow Guardian hears the unedited accounts of life under the Taliban from the students. I was in the sixth (final) year of medical science ...
26th April 2023
With progressive representation and constant shifts of narrative perspectives, Dragonfall is a unique intervention in the fantasy canon. “If there can be dragons in fantasy, why can’t there be queer people?” I remember a colleague on my Fantasy MLitt commenting in a discussion on diversity within the genre. It’s fitting, then, that Sunday Times bestseller ...
18th April 2023
Theatre Royal Glasgow is transformed into the tragic, lustful chaos of New Orleans Scottish Ballet’s performance of A Streetcar Named Desire, based on the play by Tennessee Williams, is choreographed by Annabelle Lopez Ochoa, directed by Nancy Meckler, and accompanied by the Scottish Ballet Orchestra. It begins with protagonist Blanche (Marge Hendrick) falling in love ...
18th April 2023
Is the kind of popcorn they eat the only thing you want to learn about your date? Let me set the scene: you’ve been chatting to someone on Tinder for a couple of weeks, and eventually you take the plunge and ask whether they want to meet up. They reply with the dreaded question: “Sure, ...
12th April 2023
To commemorate the 400th birthday of the first printed edition of William Shakespeare’s collected plays in 1623, the ‘First Folio’ will go on public display at the Hunterian Art Gallery on 22 and 23 April 2023. The University of Glasgow’s First Folio is currently held in the Library’s Archives & Special Collections, as one of ...
10th April 2023
A lecturer at the University of Glasgow posted an advert on Spare Room for a bedroom in a “luxury 2 bedroom apartment” demanding nearly £12,000 rent to be paid upfront. This is equivalent to a year’s rent at a rate of £215 a week. Housing law in Scotland states that a landlord can not demand ...
