Opinion
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OpinionOnline Only: On the UK’s new digital-first immigration process
The Home Office most certainly likes to keep busy. One writer explores the true cost of the UK’s digital border Read more »| 12 Dec 2024 -
OpinionLove Bites: Dance With Me
This month’s columnist reflects on embracing dancing at parties and the embarrassment that ensues Read more »| 11 Dec 2024 -
OpinionAsk Anahit: Double Trouble
In this month's advice column, one reader – gasp! – fancies more than one person at a time Read more »| 10 Dec 2024 -
OpinionCommunity Fair: On local, loveable Christmas Markets
There's community to be found at a queer choir's Govanhill Christmas market Read more »| 27 Nov 2024 -
OpinionAsk Anahit: Friend Crush
In this month's advice column, one person asks what to do about a pesky crush on a friend Read more »| 07 Nov 2024 -
OpinionLove Bites: Open Mic, Open Hearts
This month’s columnist celebrates the quiet joy of an evening spent in an audience of strangers Read more »| 31 Oct 2024
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OpinionCarving Traditions: Halloween from the margins
It's that time of year: toffee apples, green-lit and cobwebbed club nights, all-too-flammable costumes – just about anything goes. One writer reflects on the radical Halloween histories of marginalised genders and queer folk Read more »| 16 Oct 2024 -
OpinionLove Bites: Car Boot Collections
This month's columnist reflects on a keen vintage eye passed down from father to child Read more »| 11 Oct 2024 -
OpinionAsk Anahit: Working It Out
In this month's advice column, one reader is experiencing an unwelcome workplace romance Read more »| 09 Oct 2024 -
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Love Bites: Birds of a Feather
This month’s Love Bites columnist celebrates reconnecting with oneself via birdwatching and the quiet intimacy it offers Read more »| 16 Sep 2024 -
OpinionSaturday Girl: On part-time nostalgia
In an age of isolation, supermarket check-outs and wiped-clean cafe tables become a site of connection – no matter your age. One writer reflects upon building your sense of self and community through the clocked-in hours of part-time work Read more »| 12 Sep 2024 -
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Ask Anahit: Student Special
For this month's student guide, our advice columnist fields questions from the team about what they wish they had known from their student days Read more »| 11 Sep 2024 -
StudentsGetting Rid of 'Riddy Culture'
Recent University of Strathclyde graduate Lauren Hunter discusses the plague of social inhibition caused by 'Riddy Culture' in Glasgow Read more »| 11 Sep 2024 -
OpinionCreative in the City: Reconnecting with our inner artists
It’s festival season (in case you weren’t aware) and the hustle and bustle can be a little draining, to say the least. One writer explores facing fears of creative inadequacy and questions how we can reconnect with our inner artist amid artistic excess Read more »| 14 Aug 2024 -
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Ask Anahit: That's Poly-amoré!
In this month's advice column, one reader wonders how to open up a relationship successfully Read more »| 13 Aug 2024