The Glasgow Guardian • 7th January 2023

Heteropessimism: Can't live with 'em, can't live without 'em

A look at man-hating humour and whether it has any consequences, other than the obvious positive ones.

If you are a young woman, it’s possible, even likely, that you hear some variation of the exclamation “I hate men!” on an almost-daily basis. Even more likely, arguably, that this exclamation emerges from the mouth of someone who dates men, and who may even have a boyfriend. It is viewed as completely normal to be both sexually attracted to men, and to detest their existence. This is a big sou

The Glasgow Guardian • 18th September 2022

Lifestyle listens: September

Lifestyle’s advice column returns with our resident agony aunts, Genevieve and Hailie.

Question: I am a soon-to-be fresher, and I don’t plan to drink during freshers’ week. I still want to make friends and have fun though! Do you have any advice for someone in my situation? – Tina Total

I happen to have been in your exact situation before, so I do have some advice for you! You’re in luck because young people today are sober in increasing numbers , so it is very likely that you aren’t the only

The Glasgow Guardian • 18th September 2022

Cost-of-living cuisine

To misquote Richard Nixon, “I am not a cook” and I am very hungry as I write this. Such a time is perfect for stuffing one’s face with food, but, as the cost of living crisis escalates, my cupboards are offering fewer obvious solutions. I am also impatient and lazy in the kitchen. If finances are good I’ll use more expensive ingredients like chorizo and mozzarella to make dishes tastier, but recently I’ve needed to be more inventive when searching for recipes. I have listed a few go-to recipes b

The Glasgow Guardian • 28th April 2022

A meditation on the fashion collaboration

A look at the history of the fashion collaboration, and where we go from here.

On 19 November 2021 Gucci and Balenciaga jointly released the “Hacker Project” and everything I thought I knew about fashion imploded. The “Hacker Project” collection is a collaboration between the two brands: Gucci x Balenciaga. Collaborations have been huge in fashion for a while now, with many of the most sought-after pieces in a given season being the result of collaborations. In his 2017 single Chanel, musician

The Glasgow Guardian • 10th February 2022

Lifestyle Listens

The Glasgow Guardian’s agony aunts contend with friendship breakups and clashing music tastes.

Over summer, I finally cut off a friend who I knew for the entirety of my school years. Our relationship endured purely out of convenience within a larger friend group, my distaste for confrontation and ability to keep up small talk during the outings we would see each other. I felt we were totally different in terms of political views and general interests and I knew for a long time that I no longer

The Glasgow Guardian • 19th October 2021

Lifestyle Listens

Katherine and Genevieve are The Glasgow Guardian’s new agony aunts!

I lost a lot of friends during the year because I haven’t been able to keep up with people online. I really miss my friends, but I don’t know how to get better at replying to messages and I feel like I’m always behind with people. How do I get better at it? – Claudia

Katherine: I understand this, as someone who is pretty useless at keeping on top of messages, and who really hates the phone and zoom, it can seem to be a chore j

The Glasgow Guardian • 19th October 2021

Review: Beautiful World, Where Are You

Genevieve Brown immerses herself in Sally Rooney’s latest novel, giving personal insight into why it is yet another success.

I love Sally Rooney discourse almost as much as I love Sally Rooney novels. It is a guilty pleasure, knowing as any Rooney fan knows how little the author enjoys the spotlight. With every article I click on I am contributing to the fame that punishes her; not allowing her novels to stand alone. Yet, I agree with her character Alice when she writes, “people who, after a li

The Glasgow Guardian • 12th February 2020

No one should want to be a billionaire

Genevieve Brown discusses the existence of billionaires, and whether they deserve to be taxed more.

For $25, citizens of the US can purchase a coffee mug bearing the slogan “BILLIONAIRE TEARS”. It is sold not from a left-leaning Etsy store, but the campaign website of Democratic presidential hopeful Elizabeth Warren. Questionable serving suggestion of “a warm, slightly salty beverage of your choice” aside, the mug is one of the website’s best selling items – it has even spawned copycat versions

The Glasgow Guardian • 7th January 2020

Review: Marriage Story

Marriage Story opens with the voices of each of its two main characters listing the reasons they love each other, while an illustrative montage plays. I found this evocative of Up’s famous opening scene, as it was complete in under eight minutes and managed to summarise the married lives of its protagonists in a manner neither rushed nor mawkish. The scene is similarly vital to understanding the entire movie, as the characters’ moving expressions of affection are immediately placed in contrast w

The Glasgow Guardian • 16th December 2020

Home Comforts: The 1970s origins of chicken dish

When I asked my friends if they’d heard of a main course that consisted of chicken in a chicken soup-and-mayonnaise sauce with a topping of crisps and cheese, the reaction was broadly of horror. There is disagreement among my relatives over the origin of this family favourite, known only as “Chicken Dish”. It features one of my favourite cooking phenomena – tinned-soup-as-sauce. My granny asserts that my great-auntie Hazel is the source of the recipe. Indeed, Hazel makes a similar Boxing Day dis