Writing by Isi Williams. Image via Unsplash. The recent comments of Love Island star, Molly Mae Hague, went viral last week for their...

Writing by Ruth Stainer. Illustration by Berenika Murray. Devolution, defined as ‘the process of transferring power from the centre to...

Writing by Jamie McDonald. Illustration by Juliet Richards. Freedom House is a US-based non-profit organisation, famous for its annual...

Writing by Ece Kucuk. Illustration by Berenika Murray. On 15 July 2021, The High Court of the European Union made a decision that the...

Writing by Bella Henricks. Illustration by Berenika Murray. August 2021 saw the vast majority of Covid restrictions lifted in Scotland....

Writing by Frankie Ryan-Casey. Illustration by Antonia Popescu (@amp_aesthetics). For almost six decades, British governments have been...

Writing and illustration by Hannah Udall. In 2019 Greta Thunberg brought the world’s attention to a phenomenon called ‘Climate Justice’....

Writing by Amy Life. Illustration by Heather Baillie. The word fascism feels foreign here in the land of tea, politeness and...

Written By Lauren Galligan. Photograph by Ehimetalor Akhere Unuabona. ‘It’s not about creating divides, but about tackling this problem...

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...

Writing by Paula Lacey. Illustration from Twitter (@ChrisLestrange). In the summer of 2020, following the murder of George Floyd,...

Writing by J. Bare. Illustration by Josie Berry. Stock-still behemoths of bark and sap, adorned with looping vines. Vast spaces cluttered...

Writing by Ayesha Dawson. Illustration by Antonia Popescu. Content warning: contains discussion of sexual assault. My all-girl school did...

Writing by Rosaleen Keehan. Illustration by Antonia Popescu. In the conversation surrounding prison abolition, the UK often seems to be...

Writing by Olivia Richmond-Ferns. Illustration by Antonia Popescu. It is almost March again. Lockdown for many meant instability and...

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...

Writing by Alex Hendy. Illustration by Phoebe McGowan. Four years of Joe Biden are understandably unappealing to those who had hoped that...

Writing by Lucy Adkin. Illustration by Sara Dobbs. Ever since the storming of the Capitol, the massive divide within the nation has...

Writing by Holly Mackin. Illustration by Sam Geldard. Eating disorders are the ugliest of illnesses, yet are commonly said to stem from a...

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...

Writing by Rufus Pickles. Illustration by Hazel Laing. At the height of the British Empire and as the long nineteenth century drew to a...

Writing by Amelia Lockhart-Hourigan. Illustration by Violet Colley. Social media can be a wondrous place. It gives us an opportunity to...

Writing by Tackling Elitism (Daniel Geen, Lauren Galligan, and Eve Simpson). Illustration by Dani Rothmann. Tackling Elitism is a group...

Writing by Paula Lacey. Illustration by Heather Baillie. Although most year groups have been let down by UoE’s mishandling of the...

Writing and Illustration by Antonia Popescu. The discourse around isolation when it comes to migrants is, more often than not,...

Writing by Annabel Wilde. Illustration by Abigail Featherstone. Why does grief feel worse right now? I was never prepared to experience...

Writing by Heather Baillie. Illustration by Paola Lindo Valentina. As gentle guitar chords float through the air, our protagonist walks...

Writing by Patrick Anderson. Illustration by Heather Baillie. For racism at Edinburgh University to be genuinely challenged, racism needs...

Writing by Paula Lacey. Illustration by David Richards. *Note from the editors; this is the first in a series of articles covering the US...

Writing by Justine White. Illustration by Justine White. Content Warning: suicide, gender dysphoria Distraught, I sit against my radiator...

Writing by Bec Savage. Illustration by Hannah Purdom. This year, our lives have been largely restricted to our screens. Our world is now...

Writing by Joseph Mitchell. Illustration by Polly Burnay. On the 22nd of September, Labour’s new leader Keir Starmer took to the podium...

Writing by Ali Gavin. Illustration by Hazel Laing. The issue of national independence, at any time, is bound up with ideas of both...

Writing by Rosa Georgiou. Illustration by Justine White. Student culture at Edinburgh University has a highly curated image of Londoners....

Writing by Kirsty Thomson. Illustration by Violet Colley. Picture a typical university student. What comes to mind? In years gone by, in...

Writing by Annabel Wilde. Illustration by Antonia Popescu. (@amp_aesthetics on insta) As one of the most expensive cities for student...

Writing by Tamzin Elliott. Illustration by Heather Baillie (@heatherscreativeplace on Insta). Image Description: Drawn in coloured...

Writing by Isi Williams. Illustration by Bethany Morton. I’ve wanted to write an article about this issue for a long time, but was put...

Writing by Tom Wileman. Illustration from Unsplash. The Western world has recovered remarkably well from the Great Recession of 2007-09....

An Interview with Peter Cannell and Alan Armstrong from Radical Independence Edinburgh and Megan Bente Bishop from Living Rent’s...

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Writing by Iz Gius. Illustration by Polly Burnay. This summer, I sat uncomfortably in my childhood home watching clips of downtown...

Writing by Paula Lacey. Illustration by Heather Baillie (@heatherscreativeplace on Insta). Image Description: A black ink drawing...

Writing by Annabel Wilde. Illustration by Phoebe McGowan. After the devastatingly high number of deaths from COVID-19 in the UK, new...

Writing by Larisa Lesjak. Illustration by Polly Burnay. It was the 27th of June 2020 when a car decorated with anti-choice and anti-LGBTQ...

Writing by Luke Brotherdale Smith. Illustration by Phoebe McGowan. ‘Not at once; but woman is the mothering element in the world and her...

Writing by Ali Gavin. Illustration by Polly Burnay. Far from putting socio-political issues and general agitation on hold, the ongoing...

Writing by Rachel Flynn. Illustration by Polly Burnay. It’s now been 107 days since the murder of community worker George Floyd and 177...

Writing and survey by Hannah Rothmann. Illustration by Hazel Laing. Many of us at The Rattlecap will be graduating next year or in the...

Writing by Fairuz Farhoud. Illustration by Polly Burnay. The tearing down of the statue of Edward Colston on the 7th of June in Bristol...