28th August 2020
Students aren’t doing enough. No one is. We need radical change now, before it’s too late. Behind the somewhat abrupt headline is the key message: we need to scrap the idea that students are environmental guardian angels. If we really want to help this planet and have a future on it, we must critique our ...
7th August 2020
Views Editor Emily Hay explores the issues at the heart of this year’s SQA results in the absence of exams. Contrary to popular belief, I was never someone who found exams easy at school, or even at university. Sure, I was the type of person for whom the motivation to study came naturally, which ...
30th July 2020
Tara Gandhi and Bethany Woodhead Outgoing Editors-in-Chief This time last year we were sitting in a beer garden on Ashton Lane, hot sunshine through the trees highlighting the exhausted look in the eyes of predecessors and the sparkle of excitement in our own. It was handover day and we had spent hours in The Glasgow ...
12th July 2020
Karolina Omenzetter Writer Karolina Omenzetter addresses the issue of institutional racism in the British media in reaction to their coverage of the Black Lives Matter movement. The Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement has successfully made the discourse surrounding systemic racism difficult to brush under the carpet. However, the UK’s media coverage remains to have a ...
11th July 2020
Rachel Campbell Writer Rachel Campbell explores the butterflies accompanying stepping out into a post-coronavirus world. Three months into lockdown and we are reading more books, painting more pictures, baking more banana bread. I’ve taken up knitting, I’ve up-cycled clothes, I’ve started running. The common variable between my new-found hobbies? They’re all done alone. On Zoom ...
11th July 2020
Jane Dulku Writer Drawing upon her father’s experience as a British-Indian ex-police officer, Jane Dulku explains the harmful consequences of “All Lives Matter”. The recent murder of George Floyd has conjured one of the largest surges in momentum for racial equality since the civil rights era. But as with all social justice movements, criticism comes ...
9th July 2020
Kimberly Mannion Writer Kimberley Mannion attempts to read between the lines of Johnson’s classical references, metaphors, and verbal diarrhoea, to understand what is really going on. Boris Johnson is known for many things, but being a “details man” is not one of them. When he became prime minister last summer, no one could have imagined ...
9th July 2020
Ellie Wilson Writer Ellie Wilson shares her experience of racism within the Glasgow University Athletics Club and unmasks the dangers of performative activism. The world watched on in horror at the violent murder of George Floyd at the hands of police in Minneapolis. As anti-racism protests spread throughout the world, many expressed their support. “Blackout ...
21st June 2020
Jordan Hunter Deputy News Editor Ohioan Jordan Hunter examines he believes the policing model in America can be fixed, and what’s preventing it from succeeding I think it’s obvious there is a problem with policing in America. While I’ll never know what it’s like to be a minority and what their interactions with police are ...
21st June 2020
Joe Evans Writer Joe Evans offers the best cure for your double whammy of horniness and loneliness during lockdown: a wank. As the various governments of the UK each try to create their own path back to normality, I think it’s quite safe to say that the same restrictions on social interaction are going to ...
