28th September 2023
After the death of an Eritrean woman in the Channel on Monday night, the call for safe, legal routes to asylum is reiterated, and more prevalent than ever. In the early hours of Tuesday morning, the body of a 24 year old Eritrean woman was found on the beach at Sangatte, only walking distance from ...
19th September 2023
How will new SNP leader Humza Yousaf fare as the people of Rutherglen and Hamilton West take to the polls? The constituents of Rutherglen and Hamilton West will go to the polls on Thursday 5 October to participate in a closely contested by-election, triggered by the removal of their former MP Margaret Ferrier. Almost 15% ...
15th September 2023
The First Minister and former Prime Minister are both planning separate visits to the University later this month. Gordon Brown is planning to attend the University of Glasgow on the same day that First Minister of Scotland, Humza Yousaf, also intends to visit campus. Both entirely separate events are scheduled to take place on 29 ...
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 ...
8th September 2023
University of Glasgow student Cameron Eadie talks Green party politics as well as the challenges and benefits of running an election campaign as a student. At just 20 years old, University of Glasgow student Cameron Eadie has thrown his hat in the ring in the Rutherglen and Hamilton West by-election. The Scottish Green Party candidate ...
7th September 2023
Humza Yousaf should not cave to disgruntled SNP members and sever ties with the Scottish Greens. The Bute House agreement – a power sharing agreement between the Scottish National Party (SNP) and the Scottish Green Party – was signed by the SNP government in August 2021, to ensure that a pro-independence majority remained in Holyrood. ...
7th September 2023
What role will younger generations play in shaping the city’s political future? With Scotland enduring some of the most turbulent and pivotal events in its political timeline over recent months, change may just be in the pipeline for Glasgow. And with just under a quarter (23.8%) of the city’s population aged 16 to 29, its ...
5th September 2023
Why have so many politicians chosen to remain indifferent to the plight of Palestinians? Sympathy and support are continuing to grow for the plight of Palestinians amongst Brits, particularly amongst the younger generations, as the Israeli occupation expands and becomes more brutal. A YouGov poll from this year showed that of the 2,037 members of ...
29th April 2023
Baroness Meta Ramsay reminisces on her time at the University of Glasgow and her friends from those days who went on to lead New Labour. Baroness Meta Ramsay’s career since graduating from the University of Glasgow has not been short of drama nor prestige. Since her days frequenting Gilmorehill as President of the Student Representative ...
27th March 2023
Writer Alexandra Agar explores the growing and changing world of leftist groups and movements. Leftist politics and youth collectives have gone hand-in-hand for decades. The origins of these groups, as we see them today, began around the 1960’s following the US invasion of Vietnam in 1965, the Soviet occupation of Czechoslovakia in 1968 and civil ...
