Features Archives - The Glasgow Guardian



The Trial of the Thales 3

2nd December 2023

The Glasgow Guardian reports on the three activists from Palestine Action who stood trial last week following the destruction of £1.5 million worth of equipment at the Thales Group factory in Glasgow last year. On 11 July 2022, members of Palestine Action occupied and dismantled the Thales Group factory in the south of Glasgow. Thales ...


Lourdes on The Scene, Queerness and Glasgow

25th May 2023

The co-host of Dolls Discuss podcast sits down with The Glasgow Guardian. “I’ve gotten to the point in my life where I am so unashamedly myself, I will go into any space and do exactly what I do…I’ve worked too hard to diminish my light for anyone.” – Lourdes on whether she feels comfortable in ...


Former SRC President defends Iraq War and talks life in MI6

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 ...


Academia’s acute accessibility problem

7th April 2023

The Glasgow Guardian explores whether universities are doing enough to make academia accessible. Knowledge is a diverse substance. One which knows no boundaries to those who obtain it, regardless of gender, race, class or disability. Accordingly, it would seem that academia, a field of knowledge and study, should be an institution built upon such diversity ...


Battling through university

7th April 2023

Dealing with grief and the lack of compassion in the University’s ‘support structures’. My mum passed away at the end of my first year of university, and it was the hardest thing I have ever faced. She died at the end of April, and three days later, I found myself sitting in Bute Hall, trying ...


Health and environment: the disputed ban of disposable vapes

21st March 2023

The Glasgow Guardian outlines a range of student opinions regarding the Scottish Government’s proposed ban on disposable vapes. Led by Green MSP Gillian Mackay, a ban on the use of disposable vapes is currently being discussed in the Scottish Parliament. A large consideration in this proposal is the use of lithium batteries and the threat ...


Cocaine and classism

1st March 2023

The Glasgow Guardian unpacks Glasgow’s status as the cocaine capital of the world and its stemming class divide. Scotland. A picturesque land of babbling brooks, evergreen trees, snowy mountain tops and even snowier noses. According to a 2022 Vice documentary, Scotland is now the cocaine capital of the world, in particular Glasgow, with Scotland having ...


ABAB: all bouncers are bad

28th February 2023

With nightlife playing such a crucial role in the university experience, The Glasgow Guardian explores the problems surrounding the all-powerful gatekeepers of the club. Those two dreaded words: “not tonight”. No rejection stings more than that which ends a night-on-the-town before it gets started. The gatekeepers of Thursday nights are pervasive in Glasgow culture, but ...


University drug policy: disciplinary, educational and health approaches

22nd February 2023

The Glasgow Guardian explores the University of Glasgow’s approach to drug policy. “Never have I ever done hard drugs,” someone pipes up from across the room. Everyone takes a drink. After a year of being locked in Murano, there now lies the promised land of heavy techno clubs with strobe lighting that are just “so ...


Direct action at UofG: GAAF and Palestine Action

20th February 2023

UofG students are engaging with direct action and risking arrest, for causes including the divestment of arms and fossil fuel industries. At 12.18 p.m. on 3 February 2023, two young women meet for a second time. Through the misty morning air, they recognize each other in a crowd of protestors around Glasgow University’s main gates. ...