First Takes is a series in our film section where contributors review a classic or iconic film from a modern perspective. Sleepless…
Cop-a-Feel This October With the Glasgow UniBoob Team
As October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month, we decided to catch up with the Glasgow UniBoob Team, the university’s branch…
Alternative Halloween Films
Halloween is only a week away and Netflix is punting the classics – Friday the 13th, The Shining, A Nightmare…
Album Review: Orange County – Pony
‘Pony’ is chaotic, stressed and exactly as oddly charming as fans would expect from Rex Orange County’s third album. Dropping…
Live Review – Dermot Kennedy
SWG3 – 01.10.19 I think it’s safe to say over the last four years Dermot Kennedy has massively matured and…
Delirium, en masse: the fascinating and spectral phenomenon of mass hysteria
Witches, clowns and uncontrollable dancing: Halloween or mass hysteria? Defining the latter is difficult, given that each manifestation falling within the phenomenon’s sphere of…
Between India and Scotland: translating personality from a language to another
The correlation between multilingualism and certain personality traits has long been debated amongst linguists, psychologists, and anthropologists. It is a…
Film Review: Talking About Trees – in association with the Africa in Motion Film Festival
Talking About Trees, Suhaib Gasmelbari’s documentary that is screening as part of the 2019 Africa in Motion Festival, is about the film industry in a country where strict…
Life Under a Mass Media Hegemony
Advertisements are a part and parcel of a modern lifestyle. Contemporary society is driven heavily by the purchasing habits of…
The New Normal: How It Began
I have been consistently unwell in one form or another for five years. I’ve had chronic migraines since I was…
