• Fri. Apr 19th, 2024

William’s restaurant recipes for student chefs: Christmas Edition

It is with great excitement that I write this last recipe for The Student before Christmas. Why? Because Christmas food is great. There is a certain set of smells that…

The obesity crisis goes deeper than just ‘selfish greed’

Britain has a fat problem; there is no denying that. Aptly nicknamed “the fat man of Europe” we are only getting larger; nearly a quarter of British adults are obese,…

‘This Girl Can’: calling women ‘girls’ is patronising and infantilising

Last week the Edinburgh University Sports Union ran a campaign encouraging women to be active, celebrating female sporting and athletic achievement. The name of the campaign was ‘This Edinburgh Girl…

The Man in the High Castle

The Man in the High Castle is a new Amazon original series released on 15 January 2015. It explores an alternate reality in which the Axis powers won World War…

Coming Oot! A Fabulous History of Gay Scotland

This week, BBC One Scotland broadcast a television programme that charted the story of Scotland’s gay community from 1945 to the present day. A rich combination of testimony, archive, interviews…

Carol

Shot on Super 16 mm film and saturated with the muted, wintery tones of 1952 Manhattan, Carol is a cinematic masterpiece. Cate Blanchett’s protagonist, Carol, is persuaded by an inquisitive…

Turner Prize

Tramway, Glasgow: Until 17th January The Turner Prize, best known for launching some of Britain’s most acclaimed artists into the limelight is, for the first time, exhibiting its nominees in…

A critical examination of pretentious academic writing

‘The absolutely facial identity of existence/the proportion of the new creation sans depth/the light itself ex nihilo: the dark itself univocally identified, i.e., not self-identity identity itself equivocally, not the…