5th June 2024
The new Glasgow University Sport Association (GUSA) council was elected in March, for the 2024/25 term. The Glasgow Guardian spoke to several of the new council members to learn about their passion for sport, ideas for their upcoming time on council, and to get to know them a little bit better. Lilly Roy – Culture ...
26th November 2023
Break a leg! Ryan Rutherford does Glasgow proud with new strides in his career. Self-described as a “28-year-old wee Scottish guy from Edinburgh”, Ryan Rutherford graduated from the University of Glasgow in 2018 with an MA in Theatre Studies. Since then he has been working incredibly hard in one of the world’s most competitive industries. ...
24th November 2023
Constance Roisin talks to Cheryl Strayed about love, sense of self and agony aunts. Tiny Beautiful Things, which aired earlier this year on Hulu, has a unique premise. Clare, an anonymous agony aunt (played brilliantly by Kathryn Hahn), shares the same past with real-life Dear Sugar author Cheryl Strayed. Her present, on the other hand, ...
23rd November 2023
Co-leader of the Scottish Green Party, Patrick Harvie speaks with The Glasgow Guardian on environmental policies, regrets in his career and the importance of young people in politics. When I asked Patrick Harvie whether he felt hopeful about the upcoming COP28 summit, starting this month, he said that “might be putting it a little too ...
13th October 2023
Emilija Morrison sits down and chats to Glasgow’s own Gary Hewitt about his latest film, The Defender There’s nothing quite as marvellous as seeing Scotland on the big screen. Whether it’s a few seconds in a big budget Hollywood blockbuster or an entire indie film set in Glasgow or Edinburgh, it is a feeling that ...
11th October 2023
Author David Grann talks to the Glasgow Guardian about his latest book, The Wager. After completing Killers of the Flower Moon — which has been adapted by Martin Scorsese, and is coming out later this month — David Grann knew he wanted to write about mutiny. It was whilst exploring this theme that he came ...
8th September 2023
A sit-down interview with Glasgow alumnus and legendary TV writer, Steven Moffat Recently, rumours have been re-emerging that Steven Moffat, Glasgow Uni alumnus, who was the showrunner of Doctor Who for six seasons, will be returning to the series. “It would be a bit early for me to return,” Moffat tells The Glasgow Guardian. “It ...
8th September 2023
In her first newspaper interview since being arrested, Nicola Sturgeon opens up about her career and passions. On 11 June Nicola Sturgeon, former First Minister of Scotland, was arrested following her resignation from office, which she announced earlier this year. An investigation into both her and her husband’s involvement with the SNP party finance scandal ...
5th September 2023
In the increasingly para-social relationships that fans form with musicians, character performance is becoming more and more important. I first came across Yakuza in Baggen, a packed out, poorly lit, nightclub in the meatpacking district of Copenhagen. Amid the sea of gelled back hair, blazers and reserved Danish minimalism, her large gold hoop earrings and ...
30th April 2023
Commonwealth bronze medallist and ex-Scottish badminton player Susan Egelstaff discusses her experiences as a student, a professional badminton player, and now a sports writer for The Herald. Susan Egelstaff, ex-professional badminton player for Scotland and Great Britain, discusses her experiences of being a student during her professional badminton career. Egelstaff won the bronze medal in ...
