11th October 2023
Author David Grann talks to the Glasgow Guardian about his latest book, The Wager. After completing Killers of the Flower Moon — which has been adapted by Martin Scorsese, and is coming out later this month — David Grann knew he wanted to write about mutiny. It was whilst exploring this theme that he came ...
11th October 2023
A reading of the controversial novel A Little Life. CW: Rape, Paedophilia, Self-Harm A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara chronicles the life of Jude St. Francis — whose past is shrouded in mystery — and his college friends Malcolm, Willem and Jean-Baptiste (aka JB). The story begins with the four of them plunging into New ...
11th October 2023
An analysis and history of an interconnected space: popular music and its relationship to the art school. Kim Gordon, a founding member of Sonic Youth and a graduate of the Otis College of Art and Design in Los Angeles, California, once supposedly remarked that “art obsession is ideology … ideology can be made sexy, but ...
11th October 2023
The Glasgow Guardian stands with UofG’s trans community amongst increasingly vitriolic public discourse In the past week, headlines have been dominated by successive government representatives making increasingly provocative and aggressive overtures about trans people. From Rishi Sunak declaring base level transphobia as “common sense” at Conservative party conference, to Steve B...
11th October 2023
With Glasgow regularly making an appearance on “top student city” lists, is Glasgow nightlife all it’s cracked up to be? Glasgow may be famous for many things. Its museums, its food, its football, and of course, its nightlife. With countless clubs, pubs, and late-night bars, the opportunities for drinking and dancing (and spending money) are ...
11th October 2023
Writer David Carrington explores the relationship between Glasgow University students and their expensive smoking habits. If you asked someone to stereotype students at Glasgow or similar universities it wouldn’t take long before a certain insufferable accent and the word “baccy” came up. Whether or not you have claimed your Glasgow uni accent or deny it’s ...
11th October 2023
How we’ve created an exclusive culture around drinking I spent my entire freshers week stone-cold sober. I didn’t feel like drinking. I wouldn’t call myself a sober student, but I’m not a big drinker. I enjoy a gin and tonic on the sofa with some friends, but you won’t catch me doing shots in a ...
11th October 2023
How have universities managed to accrue too much and too little money at the same time? Another day at university, another picket line at the main gate. For many of us, this has become a familiar sight – especially those who already went through it last year, and the year before, experiencing marking boycotts and ...
11th October 2023
In light of research which found that playing a musical instrument can improve cognitive abilities in later life, writer Nina Atikinson explores the ways this could be implemented universally in Scottish schools. The squeaky sound of a novice recorder player practising is a familiar memory for many parents across the UK. My own mother wasn’t ...
11th October 2023
Rishi Sunak is trying desperately to cling to power as he resorts to distraction tactics over XL Bully dogs. “Danger to our communities, particularly to our children” said Rishi Sunak in a social media video that circulated recently, and surprisingly, just this once, he wasn’t talking about refugees arriving on small boats (though his language ...
