17th January 2024
Member of the Scottish Parliament for Scottish Labour and UofG alumni, Paul Sweeney, is running to be the next Rector of the University. Labour politician and former UofG alumni Paul Sweeney will be nominated to be the next Rector of the University of Glasgow, The Glasgow Guardian can reveal. The politician, who represents the Glasgow ...
16th January 2024
Emma Currie chats to Dr Zara Gladman about her work as a scientist and rise to fame in the Scottish comedy scene. For those who haven’t frequented Scottish TikTok or Twitter over the past few months, Zara Gladman is a Scottish comedian who has reached the dizzy heights of online viralness for her ‘West End ...
16th January 2024
An inside report from the elusive underbelly of conspiracy theories I arrived, glad to be stepping out of the Uber which had taken a sweaty and uncomfortable 45 minutes in the Friday rush hour traffic. It was raining softly and I could already see the queue for this mysterious unknown speaker growing, it stretched and ...
13th January 2024
Scotland’s largest city seems to have lost its political swagger In 1994, John Major’s Conservative Westminster government was set on re-organising Scotland’s water services, in preparation for privatisation. The Strathclyde Regional Council—representing the former local government region which then incorporated Glasgow—disagreed. Aiming to prove its point, the Council organised a po...
7th December 2023
With BBC Alba legend Hugh Dan MacLennan’s help, the famed ‘Littlejohn Album’ has returned to the University’s Special Collections Alexander Littlejohn was something of a character: a Londoner of Scottish origins, he was an economist who made his fortune in late 19th century finance and stock broking. He would later move up to Aberdeen at ...
7th December 2023
This semester has seen the introduction of a new, unusual society which has already garnered unprecedented popularity on campus. Our writer, Bruno, catches up with the committee of Dinner with a Stranger Society. For Juliette Sartori, October began with a coffee afternoon with four strangers. “It went really well!” Juliette enthused. “We ended up hanging ...
27th November 2023
The Glasgow Guardian gives a snap analysis of the winner of the Booker Prize, having attended the awards ceremony where it was announced. Paul Lynch, winner of The Booker Prize 2023, told the awards ceremony that he risked “dooming his career” by writing Prophet Song. His dystopian novel follows an ordinary, middle-class family, The Stacks, ...
24th November 2023
Two years on from the UN Climate conference being hosted in Glasgow, the environmental and policy challenges facing the city remain pertinent. Two years since COP26. Two years since Prince Charles turned up at the Kelvingrove Art Gallery, Joe Biden was chauffeur driven past halls of residence to a VIP-dinner, and John Kerry was spotted ...
24th November 2023
This current era of streaming hegemony needs to stop , and it can, if you’re willing to make your life just a little bit more annoying. On 25 October, it was leaked that Spotify are planning to make further cuts to their already stingy payments to artists for streams on the platform. Minimum stream numbers ...
23rd November 2023
Newly-appointed boss of Wales’ only Russell Group uni admits international students subsidise home students. In an interview with the BBC, the newly-appointed Vice-Chancellor and President of Cardiff University Wendy Larner emphasised the dire financial situation that UK universities are finding themselves in. “With our home students, the fees don’t cover the cost of their education, ...
