Unpaid labour: exploitation of tutorial leaders at the University of Edinburgh
Tutorial leaders are inadequately paid, overworked and under-supported according to data uncovered in an investigation by The Student. Though integral to the academic lives of the 25,951 undergraduates at the…
Preserving a community: an interview with Ian Hood from Save Leith Walk
Ian Hood, a founder of the Save Leith Walk campaign, stood in Bristo Square last week thrusting petitions into students’ hands. After agreeing to an interview, I met Ian, accompanied…
The stagnant state of student politics
Used in countries such as India, Venezuela and Brazil, online voting has long been cited as a potential cure for our ailing voter participation in the UK. Yet if the…
Dinosaur 94: An enlightening interview with the student band
Dinosaur 94 are fun. First coming onto my radar during the Edinburgh Fringe, I encountered Ed and Bertie once busking in Bristo Square, playing a set on Middle Meadow Walk…
A lost childhood? How the digital age is changing our brains
Childhood has changed. As Antoine de Saint-Exupery writes in the The Little Prince “All grown-ups were once children … but only few of them remember it.” Yet, whether adults remember…
What is the future for traditional news outlets?
Print media is dead, long live the Internet!’ Though possibly a bit premature, the statistics demonstrate that the printed newspaper is going the way of the VHS and cassette. As…
Male suicide and the ‘crisis of masculinity’
Content warning: suicide. One could say that the concept of masculinity is like Fight Club: the first rule is that you don’t talk about it. Indeed, this curious comparison is…
Politicians in popular culture: funny or frustrating?
The spectacle of politicians wheeling themselves out in order to gain street cred reared its familiar head yet again last week with the emergence at the Emmy’s of former press…