30th January 2022
Patrick reviews the 2021 Catalan Film Festival, celebrating all its sweet and sour glory. In November and December of 2021, Scotland saw the seventh edition of the Catalan Film Festival. The largest exhibition of Catalan cinema outside Spain, this annual event is organised by CinemaAttic, an Edinburgh-based film curation company, with support from the Spanish ...
17th January 2022
Writer Patrick Gaffey explains why Boris Johnson’s resignation will mean nothing if the system that allows his behaviour is not changed. Prime Minister Boris Johnson faces perhaps his biggest threat since taking power, after admitting to attending an illegal party in May 2020, ignoring his government’s lockdown regulations on a day when 103 British people ...
28th December 2021
Patrick Gaffey offers a method to make reading more books your New Year’s resolution. As 2021 draws to a close, many of us will be counting off our last winter reads, and planning which books to explore next year. Users of websites such as Goodreads and StoryGraph often set annual reading challenges, establishing a minimum ...
19th December 2021
The impact of funky fungi on people, society and the 7th dimension The psilocybin mushroom is one of the most fascinating plants known to humanity. Roughly 200 subspecies of this strange mushroom exist, all known to create bizarre hallucinations and altered states of consciousness. Archaeological research shows that humans have taken them for at least ...
18th December 2021
Shehzar Doja’s poem on climate change was read out by Fiona Hyslop MSP. In a speech given to the Scottish parliament on 25 November, a poem written by University of Glasgow doctor of fine arts student, Shehzar Doja – titled “No fresh soil left to plant” – was read out. Linlithgow MSP Fiona Hyslop was ...
3rd December 2021
UofG lecturer defends the Young Communist League after criticism following climate strikes. On Saturday 6 November, Glasgow saw a huge wave of marches, advocating for environmental protections and regulations at the COP26 conference. One group participating in the event was the Young Communist League (YCL), the youth wing of the Communist Party of Britain. The ...
17th November 2021
In October 2021 blue-collar film workers threatened to bring Hollywood to a standstill through strikes. Patrick explores what became of the worker’s cries of mistreatment. This autumn, the negotiations between IATSE, the union representing film workers in the USA and Canada, and AMPTP, the association representing production companies such as Netflix, Disney, and Amazon, went ...
24th October 2021
Extended reality technology will enhance students’ learning experience, with the programme based in the James Watt South building. The University of Glasgow unveiled its new “Extended Reality” programme on 1 October, which is based in the James Watt South building. Extended Reality (XR) is a technology which allows users to interact with computer-generated simulations, using ...
12th October 2021
The new SNP-Green Coalition set out its Programme for Government with detailed plans on tackling student issues. A Fairer, Greener Scotland, this year’s Programme for Government by the SNP-Green coalition, was published earlier this month. Education was a major focus of the programme, with it taking measures to “build on the strong progress already made ...
