19th October 2018
Georgina Hayes Editor-in-Chief The Glasgow Guardian has spoken to Cara Teven, founder of the page Girls Against Spiking Last month, Girls Against Spiking was launched on Facebook by Strathclyde University law student Cara Teven in order to campaign against drink spiking in Glasgow. The page received national attention after Strathclyde University’s Union supported the ...
15th September 2018
Noor Sabha Features Editor Noor Sabha on being an international student at Glasgow University Leaving your country, your family, your home and your way of life behind is a daunting experience. I know because I’ve done it. In September 2017, I moved from Jordan to Glasgow to pursue a degree in psychology. Coming from a ...
15th September 2018
Amy Shimmin Writer I was eighteen years old when I packed up my childhood bedroom into a far-too-small car and drove 200 miles north. Not a unique or unheard of choice; Murano alone could house a small settlement of people. My first year home was a private halls in Partick, and I shared it with ...
13th September 2018
Katie McPeake Writer Katie McPeake shares her experience of drawing strength through community You never think it will happen to you until it does. It sneaks up on you in the most unpredictable way, an abrupt ambush on your self-sanctity. One day you are the same old you, the next you find yourself another statistic ...
14th June 2018
Hamish Morrison Editor Andrew Neil and Susan Calman were awarded honorary doctorates from the University of Glasgow yesterday. Neil for his career in journalism and Calman for her mental health awareness and LGBT activism. I managed to grab a few minutes with Neil, host of the Sunday Politics, chair of Press Holdings (Daily Telegraph and ...
5th May 2018
Andrew Hellyer Writer Glasgow student, Andrew Hellyer, offers his account of the Rohingya suffering he witnessed in Myanmar The only thing as equally alarming as the ongoing ethnic cleansing in Rakhine State, Western Myanmar, is the seeming indifference to Rohingya suffering by ethnic Rakhine citizens, and their unconditional, unquestioning support for the Tatmadaw’s operations. “North ...
22nd April 2018
Lewis Paterson Writer How do blockbusters co-opt radical movements? Following the highly anticipated release of the new Marvel superhero film, Black Panther, there has been much discussion in online circles about the idea of media corporations co-opting radical movements for their own financial gain. A criticism often levelled is that this co-option devalues, simplifies and ...
4th April 2018
Edward Fremont-Barnes Writer Edward Fremont-Barnes speaks to Glasgow’s homeless and the charities trying to help During storm Emma and the accompanying “Beast from the East”, anyone venturing outside may have noticed the absence of the homeless. Walking through the West End to university, I am used to seeing the same five or six familiar faces ...
24th March 2018
Georgina Hayes and Savannah Stark Views Editor and Writer When we first found out about our University’s new anti-choice group, the “Glasgow University Protection of Unborn People Society” (now rebranded as “Glasgow Students For Life”), we were hoping to interview them in order to put faces to the nameless admins of the society and to ...
22nd March 2018
Priscille Biehlmann Writer Almost a year has passed since Prime Minister Theresa May signed and sent Article 50 off to Brussels, leading Britain on its first step down the long and winding road out of the EU. Since then, negotiations between the UK and the EU have stalled over everything from the Irish border to ...
