Prince Harry's Catharsis - A Scotman's Lament.
Writing by Cally Ullman-Smith. Artwork by Berenika Murray. I'm writing this the day after Burn's Night. I hosted the celebration during...
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Rattlecap Writers
- Feb 6
- 3 min
The UK’s “Top Institution” for Sustainability? Edinburgh Ranks Poorly Once Again in 2022 University
Writing by People and Planet Edinburgh. Artwork by Isi Williams. Last semester, the University of Edinburgh could be seen celebrating on...
Rattlecap Writers
- Dec 27, 2022
- 6 min
We stopped a screening of transphobic propaganda and next time you should too
Writing by Anonymous. Artwork by Isi Williams. In early December, a screening and discussion of the movie Adult Human Female was...
Rattlecap Writers
- Dec 19, 2022
- 4 min
The State of Fascism in Italy
Writing by Natasha Stewart. Artwork by Cilla Sullivan On 22nd of October this year, Giorgia Meloni succeeded in becoming Italy's first...
Rattlecap Writers
- Dec 19, 2022
- 3 min
Revolting for the Climate Crisis
Writing by Alina Pohlmann. Artwork by Berenika Murray. In one of many photographs depicting the afterlife of Pakistan’s monsoons, a...
Rattlecap Writers
- Dec 19, 2022
- 4 min
What will it take for the UK to revolt?
Writing by Cally Ullman-Smith. Artwork by Berenika Murray. Russian protesters fighting the authorities against all odds, Iranian...
Rattlecap Writers
- Dec 19, 2022
- 3 min
Autonomous Free Spaces: The Battlegrounds of Berlin
Writing by Lucy Rosenberg. Artwork by Sarah Dobbs. "There are no borders between peoples, only between the top and the bottom." Just over...
Rattlecap Writers
- Dec 19, 2022
- 3 min
The First Known Death Sentence for Protesting in Iran
Writing by Georgia May. Artwork from Unsplash. Ongoing protest and civil unrest in Iran has culminated in a protester being sentenced to...
Rattlecap Writers
- Oct 31, 2022
- 3 min
Stop Killer Robots
Writing by Anna Olszewska. Artwork from https://www.stopkillerrobots.org/. Lethal Autonomous Weapons (LAWs) are still characterised as a...
Rattlecap Writers
- Oct 22, 2022
- 3 min
Privatised Prisons in a Privatised World
Writing by Melissa Malick. Artwork by Sarah Dobbs. In the 1980s, the United States and United Kingdom governments found themselves unable...
Rattlecap Writers
- Oct 22, 2022
- 6 min
Liberating the Liberty Caps: Psilosybin Mushrooms and the Battle for Western Legalisation
Writing by Elli Efird. Artwork by Mary Buchanan. “The rejection of any source of evidence is always treason to that ultimate rationalism...
Rattlecap Writers
- Oct 22, 2022
- 4 min
Labels, Lies, and Greenwashing: How Corporations Are Undermining Our Efforts
Writing by Jamie Calder. Artwork by Berenika Murray. ‘100 fossil fuel producers and nearly 1 trillion tonnes of greenhouse gas...
Rattlecap Writers
- Oct 22, 2022
- 3 min
The Tories Have Dug the Grave - Now the Labour Party Must Put Them In It
Writing by Ciara Savvides. Artwork by Polly Burnay. The Tory Party have recently revealed their so-called ‘growth’ plan, which will...
Rattlecap Writers
- Oct 22, 2022
- 4 min
The Damaging Implications of Instagram's Continued Misogynistic Censorship of the Female Body
Writing by Ruth Stainer. Artwork by Berenika Murray. Launched in October 2010, Instagram was initially perceived to be an innovative app...
Rattlecap Writers
- Oct 22, 2022
- 4 min
Money, Money, Money: How Mass Consumption is Killing the Planet
Writing by Naya Sudra. Artwork by Alina Sandauer. As Halloween is fast approaching, people have begun to purchase costumes and...
Rattlecap Writers
- Oct 22, 2022
- 3 min
Hope as a Vice
Writing by William Lewallen-Jordan. Artwork by Annie Whiteson. As the last of the warm summer air left and we all stepped into the...
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- Jun 1, 2022
- 4 min
Emmanuel Macron’s bittersweet victory over right-wing extremist Marine Le Pen
Writing by Ellie Bye. Illustration via Unsplash. There is a sense of déjà vu to the French presidential race this year as it was the same...
jwhite3478
- Mar 3, 2022
- 2 min
KAOS and The Invasion of Ukraine: Humour as a Coping Mechanism
Writing by Isabella Henricks. Lots of people are making jokes about the invasion of Ukraine in bad taste. However, if there is one...
Rattlecap Writers
- Mar 3, 2022
- 3 min
Why this is the last time I will ever talk about Boris Johnson.
Writing by Ellie Bye. Illustration by Hannah Grist. When Boris Johnson first came to power, the UK looked, for better or for worse, more...
Rattlecap Writers
- Jan 25, 2022
- 6 min
A Pandemic of Inaction: the Climate Movement’s Battle Against Chronic Stasis
Writing by Ellie Bye. Illustration by Heather Baillie. As a species, we often think of ourselves as separate from nature. We have usurped...
Rattlecap Writers
- Jan 25, 2022
- 3 min
Anonymity and Accountability
How anonymous online platforms are changing attitudes and responses to sexual assault and harassment in Edinburgh Writing by Bella...
Rattlecap Writers
- Jan 25, 2022
- 4 min
Question Evolution, question everything – a graffiti of doubt
Writing by Lilli Steffens. Writing by Berenika Murray. “Question Evolution”. These two words, accompanied by a cross, have recently...
Rattlecap Writers
- Jan 8, 2022
- 4 min
Molly Mae's '24 Hours' Statement is Symbolic of a Much Wider Issue
Writing by Isi Williams. Image via Unsplash. The recent comments of Love Island star, Molly Mae Hague, went viral last week for their...
Rattlecap Writers
- Nov 25, 2021
- 5 min
The Taliban Renaissance Should Not Come as a Surprise
Writing by Jamie McDonald. Photograph by Andre Klimke. “I want to say that the hearts of the free world are with you. We will never rest...
Rattlecap Writers
- Sep 23, 2021
- 5 min
How the Coronavirus Pandemic has sparked an unprecedented discussion about Welsh Independence
Writing by Ruth Stainer. Illustration by Berenika Murray. Devolution, defined as ‘the process of transferring power from the centre to...
Rattlecap Writers
- Sep 23, 2021
- 5 min
Can Freedom Really Be Measured by One Number?
Writing by Jamie McDonald. Illustration by Juliet Richards. Freedom House is a US-based non-profit organisation, famous for its annual...
Rattlecap Writers
- Sep 23, 2021
- 6 min
Freedom is Limited
Writing by Ece Kucuk. Illustration by Berenika Murray. On 15 July 2021, The High Court of the European Union made a decision that the...
Rattlecap Writers
- Sep 23, 2021
- 3 min
Edinburgh and Disability: How accessible is the city now that we have “freedom” again?
Writing by Bella Henricks. Illustration by Berenika Murray. August 2021 saw the vast majority of Covid restrictions lifted in Scotland....
Rattlecap Writers
- Sep 23, 2021
- 5 min
Creamfields, cops, and the failure of Britain’s war on drugs
Writing by Frankie Ryan-Casey. Illustration by Antonia Popescu (@amp_aesthetics). For almost six decades, British governments have been...
Rattlecap Writers
- Sep 23, 2021
- 4 min
Freedom and Climate Change
Writing and illustration by Hannah Udall. In 2019 Greta Thunberg brought the world’s attention to a phenomenon called ‘Climate Justice’....
Rattlecap Writers
- Sep 23, 2021
- 4 min
The PCSC bill, fascism and political freedom.
Writing by Amy Life. Illustration by Heather Baillie. The word fascism feels foreign here in the land of tea, politeness and...
Rattlecap Writers
- Jul 6, 2021
- 4 min
In Conversation with Nat - the Edinburgh Uni student running down rape culture
Written By Lauren Galligan. Photograph by Ehimetalor Akhere Unuabona. ‘It’s not about creating divides, but about tackling this problem...
Rattlecap Writers
- May 6, 2021
- 5 min
The Youth Vote UK: The Importance of Young People at the Voting Booths
Writing by Ali Gavin. Illustration by Polly Burnay. At the time of writing this article, it seems that the news cycle is moving with more...
Rattlecap Writers
- Apr 27, 2021
- 6 min
Running the Gimlet: the domino effect of racism exposés in new media
Writing by Paula Lacey. Illustration from Twitter (@ChrisLestrange). In the summer of 2020, following the murder of George Floyd,...
Rattlecap Writers
- Apr 27, 2021
- 4 min
Fields of Mycelia
Writing by J. Bare. Illustration by Josie Berry. Stock-still behemoths of bark and sap, adorned with looping vines. Vast spaces cluttered...
Rattlecap Writers
- Apr 27, 2021
- 3 min
I just came here to make friends and get a degree…
Writing by Ayesha Dawson. Illustration by Antonia Popescu. Content warning: contains discussion of sexual assault. My all-girl school did...
Rattlecap Writers
- Apr 27, 2021
- 6 min
The UK Prison Industrial Complex and the Lifeline of Literature
Writing by Rosaleen Keehan. Illustration by Antonia Popescu. In the conversation surrounding prison abolition, the UK often seems to be...
Rattlecap Writers
- Feb 26, 2021
- 6 min
Healing from Heterosexuality: lockdown as recovery from compulsory heterosexuality
Writing by Olivia Richmond-Ferns. Illustration by Antonia Popescu. It is almost March again. Lockdown for many meant instability and...
Rattlecap Writers
- Feb 26, 2021
- 6 min
An Armie Hammer take, but not the one you’d think.
Writing by Paula Lacey. Illustration by Iz Gius. I have a confession. Every day of January, the first thing I did after waking up was...
Rattlecap Writers
- Feb 26, 2021
- 6 min
The Democratic Caucus Tends to its Roots
Writing by Alex Hendy. Illustration by Phoebe McGowan. Four years of Joe Biden are understandably unappealing to those who had hoped that...
Rattlecap Writers
- Feb 26, 2021
- 5 min
Recovering from Trumpism
Writing by Lucy Adkin. Illustration by Sara Dobbs. Ever since the storming of the Capitol, the massive divide within the nation has...
Rattlecap Writers
- Feb 26, 2021
- 4 min
Breaking the disordered eating pattern: an isolated recovery
Writing by Holly Mackin. Illustration by Sam Geldard. Eating disorders are the ugliest of illnesses, yet are commonly said to stem from a...
Rattlecap Writers
- Feb 26, 2021
- 2 min
'Finding a purpose in life becomes ever so important' - recovery as a survivor of domestic abuse
Writing by Ece Kucuk. Illustration by Polly Burnay. There comes a point in time when you’ve reached a clearing in your road to recovery...
Rattlecap Writers
- Jan 31, 2021
- 4 min
James Connolly's work has an enduring relevance for Scottish nationalists
Writing by Rufus Pickles. Illustration by Hazel Laing. At the height of the British Empire and as the long nineteenth century drew to a...
Rattlecap Writers
- Jan 16, 2021
- 6 min
“I’m the main character”: the commodification of the individual under modern capitalism
Writing by Amelia Lockhart-Hourigan. Illustration by Violet Colley. Social media can be a wondrous place. It gives us an opportunity to...
Rattlecap Writers
- Dec 18, 2020
- 5 min
Classism, Elitist Microaggressions, and Alienation: Scottish Students at the University of Edinburgh
Writing by Tackling Elitism (Daniel Geen, Lauren Galligan, and Eve Simpson). Illustration by Dani Rothmann. Tackling Elitism is a group...
Rattlecap Writers
- Dec 18, 2020
- 7 min
Interview with Rent Justice Edinburgh
Writing by Paula Lacey. Illustration by Heather Baillie. Although most year groups have been let down by UoE’s mishandling of the...
Rattlecap Writers
- Dec 18, 2020
- 3 min
'Forever an Isolating Existence' - Migration and Integration
Writing and Illustration by Antonia Popescu. The discourse around isolation when it comes to migrants is, more often than not,...
Rattlecap Writers
- Dec 18, 2020
- 2 min
Grieving in isolation
Writing by Annabel Wilde. Illustration by Abigail Featherstone. Why does grief feel worse right now? I was never prepared to experience...
Rattlecap Writers
- Dec 14, 2020
- 3 min
Boys in Skirts
Writing by Heather Baillie. Illustration by Paola Lindo Valentina. As gentle guitar chords float through the air, our protagonist walks...
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