18th February 2024
Eve tries 5 days of cooking Nigella’s Recipe of the Day At the start of the year, I had 30,000 emails in my inbox. Since then, I have created a filter that deletes every email with “unsubscribe” in it (even the seemingly endless LinkedIn job alerts have relented). Now, only one subscription slips through: Nigella’s ...
18th February 2024
The media’s hyperfixation on sex and the uni experience Popular culture is bizarrely insistent that university students love love. From the glaringly obvious example of the After trilogy, to the more nuanced work of Good Will Hunting, it’s almost impossible to think of a fictional campus in which some form of romantic plotline doesn’t play ...
18th February 2024
Writer Anne Van Hoose compares three steaks across Glasgow in a quest to find the best steak. It was a fateful night in the city of Washington D.C, in 2010. My mother, sister, and I wandered through the dark streets, searching for a bite to eat. There, across from a bank, we found heaven – ...
18th February 2024
The salacious history of gossip The highly anticipated ‘morning-after-debrief’, a simple pint with friends or perhaps in the smoking area outside of a club, you’re all hanging out together when somebody says: ‘guess what somebody told me…’. Everybody leans in as phones are put away, receipts (often in the form of text screenshots) are shown, ...
18th February 2024
The danger of defaults There is a staple in fashion that I have cultivated an irrevocable, passionate, beyond reasonable hatred for. Many of you are likely wearing them right now. The jean trouser. We must end this madness and stop falling for social norms. Down with the jean! You may be experiencing anger towards this ...
18th February 2024
Stories can tell the histories of a lifetime. Aleeza Siddiq explores the way narration invites the ignorant West into the lives of those suffering the world’s horrors. Last May, I attended a speech at Glasgow University given by Husam Zomlot, the Palestinian Ambassador to the UK, along with around fifty other Glasgow students. The speech ...
18th February 2024
With concerns over the increasing number of politicians in mainstream entertainment mounting, The Glasgow Guardian questions how far we can go before accessibility becomes public manipulation Politicians are everywhere. From reality television to social media, switching seats in the newsroom to host their own slots. It has come to the point where ‘I’m a Celebrity ...
18th February 2024
Confirmed candidates to be the next University of Glasgow Rector have spoken to The Glasgow Guardian. As the election for the next Rector of the University of Glasgow approaches, four of the candidates have given exclusive interviews to The Glasgow Guardian to discuss their unique pitch to students and the big issues which are motivating ...
18th February 2024
A University and College Union ballot for staff at the University of Aberdeen has returned with a mandate for strike action over proposed cuts to language degrees. University of Aberdeen staff are expected to strike in response to plans from senior management to cut language degrees at the University. The University and College Union (UCU) ...
18th February 2024
From Extended Research technology, to advanced knowledge of traumatic head injuries, The Glasgow Guardian looks into the world changing research taking place on campus. This month in University of Glasgow research sees groundbreaking research in educational technology, medicine, and social justice. A UofG report has underlined the power of Extended Reality (XR) technology in education. ...
