Opinion
Opinion pieces from our Intersections writers. Read the full archive of our Love Bites columns, where our writers share the things, people and places they love the most.
-
OpinionLove Bites: Checking Out
This month’s columnist celebrates the small joys of connecting with others across a supermarket checkout Read more »| 16 Dec 2025 -
OpinionFlagging It: How flags dominated 2025
It’s near impossible to look back on the last twelve months without catching sight of a flag or two. We unpack how flags have risen in the political consciousness, and question the multiplicity in meaning they hold Read more »| 12 Dec 2025 -
OpinionAsk Anahit: All the Single... Men?
In this month's advice column, one reader wonders why there are no single men Read more »| 09 Dec 2025 -
OpinionAsk Anahit: Christmas Special
In this festive edition of our advice column, one perturbed employee asks how to manage troublesome colleagues Read more »| 01 Dec 2025 -
OpinionAsk Anahit: In The End
In this month's advice column, one reader asks how to feel chill in a relationship that feels temporary Read more »| 18 Nov 2025 -
OpinionLove Bites: To Squirrel
This month’s Love Bites columnist reflects on stocking up on love for the winter months Read more »| 18 Nov 2025
-
OpinionOrganising for lasting change at Scotland’s Climate March
How do we use our freedom? We look ahead to Scotland’s Climate March, as part of a global day of action, and question how sustainable movements are made Read more »| 11 Nov 2025 -
OpinionLove Bites: 20 Years of The Skinny
This month's columnist, our very own Editor-in-Chief, reflects on two brilliant (and somewhat chaotic) decades Read more »| 16 Oct 2025 -
OpinionAsk Anahit: A Different Time
In this month's advice column, we turn to the archives, (re)answering a letter originally printed in our 29th issue in February 2008 Read more »| 02 Oct 2025 -
OpinionDrawn to Map: On Feeling Our Way Through Space
One writer reflects on a love of maps – both physical and digital – and considers how local intimacies can transform the places we know and love Read more »| 18 Sep 2025 -
OpinionLove Bites: Placing & Replacing
This month’s Love Bites columnist reflects on loving a place you once couldn’t wait to leave Read more »| 16 Sep 2025 -
OpinionAsk Anahit: Student Edition
In this advice column special, our resident agony aunt answers all your burning questions about how to be a student Read more »| 11 Sep 2025 -
Opinion
Love Bites: Dinner With Strangers
This month’s columnist reflects on sharing a meal with future friends Read more »| 12 Aug 2025 -
Opinion90 Days: Why daily challenges still won’t save us
Total transformation is only a few dozen lonely days away. One writer unpacks our endless fixation with daily challenges and questions whether there’s more to life than self-discipline Read more »| 05 Aug 2025 -
OpinionUnfit For A King: On taking the stage with pride this August
Who is festival season for, anyways? Spoken word poet Oliver Robertson reflects on finding creativity in community, bringing working class Scottish stories to an international stage and the importance of the Free Fringe, for artists and audiences alike. Read more »| 28 Jul 2025