Kimberley Mannion

Summer graduation season passed this year with the same flurry of black robes and caps as tradition entails, and the same smiling photos that mark the end of four years of swotting in the library – with some fun in between.

Queues at the box office for those who were trying their luck on a last minute ticket began in the early hours of the morning with the front of the queue taking their places at 4.15am for the 8am sales to begin. It was worth the early rise to guarantee a place - all remaining walk-in slots for the day were sold out by 9.30am, taken by those who had queued.

Freshly graduated with a degree in politics from the University of Stirling, Andy Paterson talks with the enthusiasm and determination of someone who wants to go out and make a difference. His mission is to convince Scottish universities to stop dishing out punishments to young people caught in possession of illegal drugs that could haunt them for years to come, and instead treat them with compassion while educating them on the dangers.

While Edinburgh's streets were lined with spectators hoping to catch a glimpse of the pomp and glamour of King Charles' Scottish Coronation today, some in the crowd were there for a different reason. I spent the day with activists from This is Rigged, a direct action group demanding the Scottish Government vocally oppose all new oil and gas licenses.

Editors-in-Chief Luke Chafer and Kimberley Mannion ponder the paper’s future as we mark our birthday. The Glasgow Guardian has an illustrious history. October 10th marked 90 years to the day of the first iteration of the University paper in the form of the Gilmore Globe. Since then we have unfurled major investigations into the University, won numerous national awards and been a hotbed for future national newspaper editors such as Catherine Salmond or Andrew Neil to cut their teeth. Yet at this

The UK government made the decision not to continue participation in the Erasmus programme as a third country when it signed the EU-UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement with Brussels on Christmas Eve of 2020.