This year’s student elections have kicked off and many have been wondering who to vote for. Often, most of the attention is given to the EUSA President and VP races; however, equally important are the Liberation Officers who will be in charge of looking after the wellbeing of our more vulnerable student populations. In this […]
In a shock turn of events that surprised… well, they surprised absolutely no one: an MP, a cabinet minster no less, has had to go into isolation and get tested for coronavirus the day after MPs voted to abolish the hybrid parliament. Whilst I didn’t expect to be proved right quite so quickly, this does […]
Scottish Labour Candidate for Edinburgh South, Ian Murray speaks to The Student about his work so far as an MP since 2010, and his goals for the future of his constituency and beyond as he stands for re-election for a third time on December 12th. Arriving to interview Ian, it becomes clear that his campaign […]
After months of Brexit negotiation, the UK is set to head to the ballot box again this December for a general election. The prime minister, Boris Johnson, finally succeeded in his calls for an early general election last week with Brexit once again hitting a stalemate. The first election debate is set to take place on 19 November, between Johnson and Labour party leader, Jeremy Corbyn. The […]
Following today’s political discourse, in this country especially, is exhausting. The same series of events appears to occur time and time again. A question arises, speculation and debate are publicised, yet in the end nothing changes. It would seem, to an outsider, that British politics is collapsing in on itself. Parties are divided, leaders are […]
Few terms in the tech industry have been more overused than Blockchain within the last few years. What started as a niche, avant-garde thought-experiment of cryptography experts who called themselves cypherpunks has now been reduced to a buzzword used by startups to catch public interest. Blockchain is a computer network architecture, made public by an […]
Students of the University of Edinburgh will be some of the most powerful in the country on Thursday 8 June. The constituency of Edinburgh South is the only Scottish constituency with a Labour MP. In 2015, Ian Murray received 19,293 and the SNP candidate Neil Hay received 16,656, making it a close marginal. If you want to […]
The Students’ Association election season is upon us. Brightly coloured posters are displayed throughout George Square. Social media is saturated with campaign propaganda, and enthusiastic candidates are frantically trying to engage with students across campus. Despite the significance of these elections, the number of actual voters is dismally low. Last year, only 4,011 of our […]