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.
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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 -
OpinionLove Bites: Dinner With Strangers
This month’s columnist reflects on sharing a meal with future friends Read more »| 12 Aug 2025
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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 -
OpinionRegional Retail Therapy: The forgotten value of Scottish shopping centres
Weekend hours spent under the fluorescent lighting of suburban consumerism – count us in. One writer hails the brilliance of ageing Scottish shopping centres as a social hub, local treasure and provider of good old-fashioned tat Read more »| 10 Jul 2025 -
OpinionAsk Anahit: Employee Relations
In this month's advice column, one reader wonders whether they should start things up with a colleague Read more »| 08 Jul 2025 -
OpinionLove Bites: Carrie Bradshaw and Co
This month’s columnist reflects on the enduring allure of Sex and the City Read more »| 08 Jul 2025 -
OpinionLove Bites: Desire Paths
This month’s columnist reflects on taking the road less travelled Read more »| 17 Jun 2025 -
IntersectionsThe Category Is: A first read of Kevin Guyan’s Rainbow Trap
The politics of classifications and LGBTQ lives are ever-complex – and marriage certificates are just the start. In Rainbow Trap, Kevin Guyan reveals how the fight for LGBTQ equalities in the UK is shaped – and constrained – by everyday classifications Read more »| 12 Jun 2025 -
OpinionAsk Anahit: Get Over It
In this month's advice column, one reader asks how to tell a friend to move on from a past relationship Read more »| 12 Jun 2025 -
OpinionMigration Sounds: How radio travels distances
How does music cross a border? Laila Ghaffar reflects on curating connection via co-hosting a radio show amid ongoing border tensions between India and Pakistan Read more »| 10 Jun 2025