Sports Personality of the Year nominees profiled by The Student
There are always a number of tell-tale signs that Christmas is on the way: songs on the radio, advent calendars and that Coca-Cola advert on television. Another is the annual…
This Edinburgh Fencer Can
As a follow up to our This Edinburgh Girl Can, The Student profiles two of Edinburgh University Fencing Club’s athletes. Zoe Sudderick What is your sport and what level do…
Women’s services should not be funded by the tampon tax
When I buy a box of tampons, it usually isn’t as an act of charity and good will, but rather because I am bleeding profusely, and am trying to prevent…
Features: Edinburgh Soup
Soup is a magical food, which warms you to the very core on the coldest of Wintery days and fills you right up all at the same time. There are…
Review: Tutto Matto
Brace yourselves. Last week, a buzzing new pizza restaurant opened (by the founders of the Pinto Mexican Kitchen) on 16 Nicolson Street opposite Festival theatre, giving out 500 free pizzas…
William’s restaurant recipes for student chefs: Christmas Edition
It is with great excitement that I write this last recipe for The Student before Christmas. Why? Because Christmas food is great. There is a certain set of smells that…
The obesity crisis goes deeper than just ‘selfish greed’
Britain has a fat problem; there is no denying that. Aptly nicknamed “the fat man of Europe” we are only getting larger; nearly a quarter of British adults are obese,…
‘This Girl Can’: calling women ‘girls’ is patronising and infantilising
Last week the Edinburgh University Sports Union ran a campaign encouraging women to be active, celebrating female sporting and athletic achievement. The name of the campaign was ‘This Edinburgh Girl…