A weekend of games full of abuse and aggression. Is that where football is at?
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‘“Passion” is the currency fools use to justify referee abuse’. Martin Cassidy, CEO of the charity Ref Support UK, stated this after a...
Anisha Jaya Minocha
- Oct 17, 2022
Re-Collecting Empire: An Immersive Wardlaw Exhibition
For the past few months, the Wardlaw Museum in St Andrews has been home to the Re-Collecting Empire exhibition. Whilst managing to...
Hannah Nightingale
- Oct 11, 2022
Let's Work Less. 4 Day Week Hits in Multiple Sectors.
What would you do if you had one more day off every week? 4 Day Week Global is one of many pilot programs studying the effects of...
Niamh Molloy
- Oct 9, 2022
A Little Birdie Told Me The Old Course Might Be Underwater by 2050
St Andrews proudly has the title of the ‘Home of Golf’, holding the Old Course, the oldest and most famous golf course in the world. The...
Bel
- Oct 5, 2022
A Case for the Wholesome Pub Night
Now in my third year at St Andrews, with three freshers’ weeks under my belt, I have noticed a change. A silent shift has taken place...
Daisy Finefrock
- Oct 3, 2022
A Monarch Dies... And So Does the Union?
The unimaginable yet all too expected death of Queen Elizabeth II occurred on September 8th. Crowds flocked to all the stopping points to...
Rivaa Ubrani
- Sep 26, 2022
iPhone 14 Release Causes Madness
My trip to London last weekend was bound to be stressful, what with the funeral preparations and generations of Brits lining up to pay...
Emilia Brooks
- Sep 24, 2022
Newport, New Shops, New Mindsets
St Andrews has some new faces this semester, and I don’t mean the hundreds of new students out and about in town. Lining the few streets...
Hannah Peart
- Sep 21, 2022
A Serena Williams Retrospective
Last week saw the end of Serena Williams’ run at the US Open in a loss to Ajla Tomljanovic which marked her final professional appearance...
Mia Hodgens
- Oct 4, 2021
The Definitive Ranking of Pizzas in St Andrews
As a third year at St Andrews, I’ve come to eat a lot of pizzas during my time here. All the pizzas ranked here are enjoyable and make...
Alice Lele
- May 1, 2021
Co(vid)dependency
I received a playful glare from my flatmates as we passed each other in the street. I knew what I had done wrong: I broke the rules, as...
Chloe Chuck
- May 1, 2021
Antiquity in Modernity
Although I would not go so far as to use the cliché of ‘I was born in the wrong age’, I often feel that a modern existence is not for me....
Eleni Zervos
- Apr 9, 2021
Where to Buy Kombucha in St Andrews
In the past five years Kombucha, a fermented tea drink rich in probiotics and antioxidants, has become one of the most popular products...
Cara Shepherd
- Mar 14, 2021
Cancel Culture is Absolutely Ineffective
Harmful language, like slurs and stereotypes, are unacceptable. Those who acknowledge this have the responsibility to demand future...
Chloe Chuck
- Mar 7, 2021
Let's Seek Beauty in the Macabre
Lying on the brink of death in Rome, John Keats penned the following words to his devoted companion Joseph Severn, a young artist and...
Katie Brennan
- Feb 21, 2021
Vaccine Nationalism Puts Lives At Risk
The UK is currently pushing ahead in its Covid-19 vaccination programme. 600,000 Brits alone received a dose on the 30th of January in...
Anezka Ferreira
- Feb 14, 2021
21st Century Suffers Historical Amnesia
In 1878, the British prime minister Benjamin Disraeli proclaimed that ‘our Empire is an Empire of liberty, of truth and justice.’...
Eleni Zervos
- Feb 8, 2021
University Refuses to Communicate Effectively Amidst Covid-19
Our unfortunate reality this semester is that all classes may stay online and the 2021 graduation ceremony could be cancelled. Sally...
Niamh Molloy
- Dec 5, 2020
Gender in Politics: No Longer a Man’s Game
“Frailty, thy name is woman.” Shakespeare may have written this line more than 400 years ago, but it’s still relevant today. Almost every...
Anezka Ferreira
- Nov 21, 2020
Un-Masking the Pandemic
The use of masks provoked unease at the beginning of the pandemic. While some argue that they find the masks uncomfortable, others...
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