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EDINBURGH’S STUDENT NEWSPAPER
ISSUE LXVIII
WEDNESDAY 20 FEBRUARY 2013
‘The Student story was an attack on the rights of EUSA’s staff.’ COMMENT / Max Crema on the EUSA interdict
EUSA break silence on censorship • After weeks of ‘no comment’, EUSA officials speak out to deny that they gagged The Student in order to protect their own reputations • EXCLUSIVE: Max Crema finally lifts the lid on his suspension last year
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• NUS clash with Scottish Labour • EUSA referendum results • Heriot-Watt elections • ECA students win Bafta • Man jailed for Lothian Rd attack • New Burns manuscript found
THE ANATOMY OF AUTONOMY
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Thrilling fight night at Teviot • Cricket: EUCC beat St Andrews • Squash: UoE into BUCS last eight • Hacker: Gareth Bale is a waster
IN SPORT /
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Defending your wee bit hill and glen Leading politicians and defence experts consider the future of Scottish security
IN FEATURES /
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• Books: Rethinking W.H. Auden • Tribute: Prof Susan Manning • Film: Oscars preview • Film: Pablo Larrain’s No • Food & Drink: Riding out the horsemeat scandal • Art & Design: framing Economy
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Harlem Shake meme hits Edinburgh
THIS WEEK INSIDE THE JOURNAL
Di Resta ready to go The Journal assesses what 2013 might hold for Scotland’s F1 challenger
A GROUP OF STUDENTS from the University of Edinburgh organised a flashmob with over 130 students taking part. The video has over 10,000 views and has been featured on the Huffington Post UK. This is part of the wider global phenomenon of the Harlem Shake where participants take part in a spontaneous video, dancing to the song ‘Harlem Shake’ by the artist Baauer. The video can be seen on YouTube and was shot in Bristo Square in the Central Area of the university campus.
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IN FEATURES / 15 Aid: humanity or wildlife? As our world’s resources deplete, is it time to prioritise wildlife conservation over humanitarian aid
IN ARTS & ENTS / 12 Timberyard Longstanding Edinburgh restaurateurs grace Lady Lawson Street
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Students occupy Sussex University over job outsourcing STUDENTS AT SUSSEX University have reacted angrily to plans to outsource 10 per cent of their staff. This would mean that contracts for over 200 staff would be transferred to external contracts which protesters say could undermine their terms and conditions as student staff. The protesters have occupied a conference room on the campus of the university despite opposition from the university. The protest has attracted a great deal of media attention and has been supported by well-known names Noam Chomsky, actor Peter Capaldi and local Green Party MP Caroline Lucas.
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Jeremy Paxman branded “a bully” over University Challenge smackdown JEREMY PAXMAN HAS been criticised by viewers for ‘bullying’ a student on the popular quiz show University Challenge. In the show a wrong answer by a UCL contestant led to Paxman describing the student as “very wrong.” The offending incident occurred when Paxman asked the question: “’The liberties of England and the Protestant religion I will maintain.’ Which royal figure made that claim when he landed at Brixham, in Devon, in 1688?” and the contestant answered William I. A number of viewers took to Twitter to defend the student while others defended the presenter saying that the answer was indeed ‘very wrong’. The mother of the contestant defended Paxman’s response saying: “I think Paxman is always a little tough with the contestants. But I think it is all in good spirit. It is a challenge after all.”
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EUSA hits back in censorship furore Senior reps break union’s wall of silence to deny claims they sought interdict to protect their reputations Callum Leslie Student Politics editor
Officials at Edinburgh University Students’ Association (EUSA) have this week spoken out over their handling of recent legal action against The Student newspaper, following widespread press and public criticism of their decision to seek a Court of Session interdict preventing the paper from publishing confidential information. The embattled union had previously maintained a wall of silence in response to questions from Edinburgh students and the national press about their handling of the scandal. Last week, EUSA president James McAsh released a brief
statement, since removed, on the EUSA website, writing: “I understand that this is frustrating for students accustomed to a higher standard of openness and transparency from EUSA, but I can only reiterate our previous position that in this specific case we are bound by the law.” But now, in a carefully-worded statement received by The Journal, McAsh has denied claims that the interdict was sought in order to protect senior EUSA representatives, particularly vice-president services Max Crema, whose tenweek suspension last summer is understood to have been the catalyst for The Student’s suppressed article. “The courts are not in the habit of protecting the reputation of student poli-
ticians,” he said. “We went to the courts to protect the rights of our employees. We value them, respect their rights, and must ensure that EUSA is a good place to work. “In early January The Student journalists were party to some confidential information about a number of our employees. This information had been given to EUSA on the understanding that it would not be shared publicly. The imminent publication of those details marked the moment at which recourse to the courts became necessary.” Alistair Grant and Nina Seale, coeditors of The Student, told The Journal: “We believe the article in question was in the public interest for us to publish, as EUSA is an organisation of whom the elected staff represent our readership, the student body. “The manner in which the interdict was written up, to include a clause trying to prevent us from publishing any material suggesting EUSA is ‘poorly governed and whose management is unaccountable’ (which was not granted by the judge) was unacceptable, as well as the fact that
none of our representatives were present in court when the interdict was granted.” The EUSA statement partially corroborates some details previously reported in The Journal, notably that the Student story was suppressed on data protection grounds, but does not acknowledge that the interdict relates directly to Mr Crema. But writing in The Journal today, Crema has admitted that the story was about him, and launched an attack on the Student for attempting to publish it. Echoing his sabbatical colleague’s denial that legal action was taken to protect his reputation, Crema writes that the article “violated the privacy” of EUSA staff, and that it made it “exceptionally likely that both The Student and EUSA would face legal action as a result of its publication.” Calling the story “an attack on the rights of our staff to improve their working conditions,” Crema adds that “I have no doubt in my mind that taking legal action was the correct decision.” Crema has also used his op-ed to lift the lid on the reasons for his suspension, admitting: “Before taking office, I pub-
Third referendum marred by low turnout COMMENT
Exclusively in The Journal, Max Crema opens up about his suspension and the interdict
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Heriot-Watt election battle underway Three contest presidency in this year’s race to succeed Mike Ross as head of HWUSU Callum Leslie Student Politics editor
Edinburgh student election
season has well and truly begun, with Heriot-Watt University Students’ Association (HWUSA) the first to elect their new officers. Students will contest sabbatical elections for president, vice-president and president of the Scottish Borders campus (SBC), as well as elections for other voluntary positions on the HWUSA executive. Three candidates will compete for the top job - Brittany Brown, Conor Murray-Gauld and Lily Hendron. Brown is standing on a platform of increasing accountability, mental health provision and study space while MurrayGauld is focusing on national campaigning and activism, as well as the study space issue. Hendron is making societies, sports and events the base of her campaign. Current HWUSA president Mike Ross, said: “It’s fantastic to see such a number of great candidates come forward for sabbatical positions this year. I am hopeful that we will see an increase in voter turnout and following on from
this an increase in student engagement with the Union as a whole.” Two candidates vie for the position of vice-president: Katie Cassidy and Becky O’Hagan. Current HWUSA executive member Jonathon Andrews is the only candidate for SBC president. A number of places have been automatically filled due to only having one candidate. Current HWUSA president Mike Ross has been in office for two years, the maximum allowed, and won his re-election in 2012 unopposed. Speaking about his two years in office, Mr Ross said that he was pleased with what he had achieved: “The last two years have seen huge positive changes within the Union; the creation of our first ever strategic plan, a complete overhaul of our constitution and by-laws ensuring much more effective governance and £350,000 in funding secured from the university for refurbishment work. “Everything is in place for the newly elected sabbaticals to continue to improve the student experience in a challenging environment with growing international student numbers overseas and at home.” Voting opens Wednesday 20 February and runs until Friday 22 February.
Turnout under six per cent in EUSA ballot, as only seven of 17 questions reach quorum Callum Leslie Student Politics editor
The latest referenda held by the
Edinburgh University Students’ Association (EUSA) saw 10 out of the 17 questions fail to meet quoracy, the number of votes at which a vote is binding on the association. All questions are required to receive 1,500 votes in total, either for or against, in order to force EUSA to abide by them, or 2,000 in the case of constitutional amendments. The results, announced last week, have been hailed as an improvement on last year, when all questions put up for student-wide voting failed to reach the 1,500 vote threshold. EUSA came under fire for the complicated nature of the voting process at the time, although they did not change the process for this year. Questions on overturning parts of the Princess Anne resignation motion, increasing the number of sabbaticals EUSA is allowed to have, creating school councils, reducing the variety of bottled water EUSA sells and supporting a demonstration against Trident all failed to meet quoracy. Questions mandating EUSA to lobby the university on childcare provision and ethical investment also received fewer than 1,500 votes in total. However, questions on having Fresh Air played in EUSA bars and on MyEd did pass, as did proposals on reducing the cost of food and drinks in EUSA outlets and increasing the ethical standards of the meat EUSA buys. Some have suggested that the questions on food present a conflict, as vicepresident of services Max Crema argued
during the campaign that to reach the high ethical standards demanded by the question would lead to an increase in meal prices. There were also victories for two of the candidates running for EUSA president in next month’s elections, as Hugh Murdoch’s question on lobbying the University to provide free WiFi in all rooms in halls passed by a large margin. However, the candidate for the farleft Defend Edinburgh group, Mike Shaw, achieved the largest winning margin and turnout of the referendum with his question on establishing a student-owned housing co-operative. His question was the only one to get just above a 6 per cent turnout. Liam O’Hare, the other expected presidential candidate, saw his question on supporting a demonstration against Trident fail to meet quoracy. Vice-president of services candidate Kirsty Haigh, who saw her question on nursery provision for student parents fail to reach quoracy, commented: “I am very disappointed that people do not see that providing facilities that allow equal access to education and the workforce are something we should be fighting for. Providing nurseries is vital in the struggle for women’s liberation.” Despite EUSA president James McAsh telling The Journal after the last referendum results that they would “look into improvements that can be introduced for next time,” the voting process was kept the same for this voting period. Commenting on the latest results, McAsh said: “There are clearly some issues with the referendum process and it is no surprise that some students are disappointed. EUSA is in need of some radical reforms to democracy.”
lished a number of tweets from my personal Twitter account which included the phrase ‘fuck old people’... those tweets were inappropriate, immature and offensive, and I should never have written them. “Furthermore, while suspended last summer I published an anonymous guest post to my official EUSA blog alleging unsafe working conditions and sexual harassment in festival venues in Edinburgh. This was interpreted to have been written by a EUSA employee... I didn’t intend for that blog post to have been interpreted as being about EUSA, but rather had aimed to highlight what I perceived to be a serious problem facing Edinburgh University students.” The Student continued their assault on EUSA in last week’s edition, singling out McAsh and Crema for criticism and citing the furious online response to the scandal to accuse EUSA of sending bailiffs to “force students to sign injunctions”. The story has also been picked up by The Herald, the Edinburgh Evening News, The Huffington Post and The Guardian, among others.
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TWO YEARS OF REFERENDA
Online referenda were a con-
troversial addition to the new EUSA constitution, passed in October 2011. This month’s plebiscite is the third since their introduction — and the latter two have both been plagued by unexpectedly poor turnout. To reach quorum and thus have a binding impact on EUSA, questions must receive a total of 1,500 votes. Last October, none of the six questions posed were quorate, leaving the decision on implementation in the hands of the EUSA trustee board, which voted to uphold the ban on sales of The Sun on campus — and little else. At the time, James McAsh, along with many students, criticised the online voting system as confusing, but the same system was used for this referendum. Now, however, he claims that radical reform of EUSA democracy is needed, despite his extensive campaigning for this supposedly radical reform less than two years ago. Quoracy doesn’t always stifle questions, however: last year’s proposal to boycot SABMiller products passed comfortably, only be overturned unilaterally by the trustee board. To make matters worse, this time around two potentially contradictory questions — higher ethical standards for food, which is likely to increase prices, and a commitment to reducing food prices — both passed. It is now possible that both will simply be ignored by the trustees, who have made a staunch defence of EUSA’s food pricing structures. The trustees’ decision to append defensive statements has been questioned by some — including The Journal’s editorial board today (see page 12).
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UK launches formal inquiry into independence Legal advice collected by the UK government conflicts with previous assertions of pro-independence camp Jon Vrushi Comment editor
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launched the Scotland analysis programme on Monday 11 February in a bid to equip Scottish citizens with information surrounding the debate on Scottish independence. The UK government website says that the Scotland analysis programme will: “provide comprehensive and detailed analysis of Scotland’s place in the UK,” and will “set out the facts about a range of constitutional, economic and policy issues that are critical to considering Scotland’s future.” The executive summary of the analysis says that: “It is crucial that the referendum debate is properly informed. People in Scotland expect and deserve good information on which to base their decision.” The first publication in the series, ‘Scotland analysis: devolution and the implications of Scottish independence’, is concerned with the legal implications of an affirmative vote in the 2014 referendum. The document is made up of an analysis paper which examines the UK’s constitutional setup as well as the legal implications of independence and a legal opinion written by two international law experts and endorsed by the UK government. The legal opinion argues that an independent Scotland would have to create a new set of domestic and international arrangements as well as re-apply for EU membership. Conversely, it argues that the UK would not have to negotiate new international treaties or memberships. Referring to the paper, Michael Moore, the Scottish secretary, said: “our paper is very clear: independence would end devolution. It is not an extension of it. But devolution is not just about the things that are devolved to the Scottish Parliament. It is also about the things that are looked after at Westminster. Devolution means that Scots can continue to benefit from being part of a larger UK.” However, first minister Alex Salmond has consistently stated that both Scotland and the rest of the UK would be two new states following Scottish independence. In our previous edition, The Journal reported on an interpretation of public law, propagated by Ambassador Professor David Scheffer, which supports Salmond’s claim.
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A GATHERING STORM? So far, the position of both the
UK and Scottish governments has been that in the case of an affirmative vote, the process of separation would be guided by friendly negotiations between London and Edinburgh. However there is a major caveat to that point; that these negotiations should lead to a consensual agreement. Following the publication of the first ‘Scotland analysis’, it is clear that the Scottish and UK governments are endorsing two conflicting points of view. The implications of this could be very serious because unless the two governments converge to a mutual consensus, it will be down to the international community to resolve matters. Once put to the international community, one might expect that the decision will be a political one, influenced by diplomatic manoeuvers and lobbying. Considering the greater diplomatic power that the rest of the UK would wield in comparison to Scotland, it is very likely that a Scottish government will find itself ill at ease with such an exercise in diplomacy. Furthermore, the fact that countries such as the USA, Spain and, to a certain extent, France have all but discouraged wholesale independence could put Scotland at a greater disadvantage.
The central argument of that interpretation was that both Scotland and the rest of the UK would be co-equal successor states. For the time being, the Scottish and UK governments have chosen to endorse conflicting legal interpretations regarding Scottish independence. Over the next year and a half, the Scotland analysis programme will also look in detail at other issues including but not limited to: the UK’s place in the world, energy, welfare and pensions.
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NUS Scotland president Robin Parker has criticised a speech by the deputy leader of the Scottish Labour Party Anas Sarwar, in which the Labour MP seemed to suggest that the Scottish Government was wrong to focus on free tuition fees over success rates in Scottish schools. Meanwhile, the deputy convener of the Scottish government education committee has moved to defend Mr Sarwar. In a speech at Gorbals church in Glasgow, Mr Sarwar decried the issue of many Scottish students being failed in their basic education. He criticised the SNP for focusing “relentlessly on free tuition fees while ignoring the needs of pupils from the most deprived areas who have little or no chance of getting to university.” In a response seen by The Journal, president of NUS Scotland Robin Parker criticised the Labour MP’s statement, saying: “It’s extremely disappointing to see the Scottish Labour Party, yet again, seeming to threaten to introduce tuition fees into Scotland. Scottish Labour stood on a manifesto pledge ruling out any kind of fees ‘up-front or back-end’ for higher education in Scotland and every single Scottish Labour MSP signed up to a personal pledge to students to rule out tuition fees. “Their assumption seems to be that many of our poorest people don’t currently have the talent or potential to make it to university. That’s not just offensive, it’s wrong, and
“The SNP focus relentlessly on free tuition fees while ignoring the needs of pupils from the most deprived areas” Anas Sarwar plays to the worst of many right-wing commentators.” Following this statement by the NUS, the deputy convener for the Scottish education committee Neil Findlay defended Mr Sarwar. Speaking to The Journal, Mr Findlay defended his Labour colleague’s remarks, saying: “NUS Scotland have got this completely wrong — it is the Scottish Government that is cutting college budgets, sacking lecturers and support staff and reducing places for part time student by 85,000. Scottish Labour’s policy has not changed – we need an honest debate about how fund education and our other public services - knee jerk reactions and misrepresentations like that of Robin Parker do not help!”
Mr Sarwar’s speech was aimed at setting out his and Scottish Labour’s opposition to both the SNP-controlled administration in Holyrood and the coalition government in Westminster. He suggested that many Scottish people had lost faith in both their governments. During the speech, the deputy leader also claimed that there is a divide in Scottish education. Citing statistics, Mr Sarwar stated that “in 2011 only 50 young people from Scotland’s poorest areas got 5 As at higher level” and went on to criticise the First Minister, stating: “So while Alex Salmond plays politics when talking about the right to a free education being written into a Scottish Constitution — by his own actions now in failing to tackle inequalities — he is actively denying thousands of young people access to something he says is a right.” Despite these claims, NUS Scotland has suggested that Mr Sarwar’s comments are overtly divisive and unhelpful. In the same statement, Mr Parker conceded that “cuts to colleges are unacceptable” but went on to stress that he felt Scottish Labour “playing colleges and universities off of each other is simply playing Scottish communities against each other, something Scottish Labour accuse others of doing.” The Scottish Labour Party has come under pressure from student organisations in the past. During the debates on raising tuition fees for rest of UK (RUK) students, there was much fingerpointing by student protesters towards Labour, who were criticised for introducing fees in the first place.
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Leith Albert Place, 1100, 5, 2S 3D, 0844 635 3700 Kirk Street, 1100, 5, 2S 3D, 0844 635 3700 Smith’s Place, 1400, 4, 4D G CG O, 0844 635 9422 Easter Road, 1200, 4, 4D, 0844 635 3700 Easter Road, 900, 4, 4D, 0844 635 3700 Portland Street, 850, 4, 4D, 0844 635 3700 Annandale Street, 1000, 3, 3D G PG P, 0844 635 4820 Western Harbour Way, 945, 3, 3D G P, 0844 635 4820 Ocean Way, 875, 3, 3D G P, 0844 635 9238 Portland Place, 850, 3, 3D, 0844 635 3700 Western Harbour Midway, 850, 3, CG P, 0844 635 9308 Bonnington Gait, 825, 3, 3D G P, 0844 635 9384 Leith Walk, 750, 3, 3D, 0844 635 3700 Ocean Drive, 750, 3, 3D G P, 0844 635 9384 Wellington Place, 1100, 2, G, 0844 635 4475 Western Harbour Brkwater, 1050, 2, 2D G P, 0844 635 4820 Constitution Place, 895, 2, 2D G CG P, 0844 635 9245 Western Harbour Brkwater, 850, 2, 1S 1D G CG P, 0844 635 4820 Sandport Way, 800, 2, 2D G PG P, 0844 635 6872 Western Harbour Way, 775, 2, 2D G P, 0844 635 4820 Western Harbour Terrace, 725, 2, G CG O, 0844 635 4475 Tower Place, 685, 2, 2D G P, 0844 635 9560 Elliot Street, 650, 2, 2D E CG P, 0844 635 9234 Springfield Street, 650, 2, 2D G P, 0844 635 4820 Duke Street, 625, 2, 2D G CG, 0844 635 9594 Edina Street, 625, 2, 2D, 0844 635 3700 Henderson Street, 625, 2, 2D G, 0844 635 3330 Stead’s Place, 625, 2, 2D G, 0844 635 9300 Harrismith Place, 600, 2, 1S 1D G P, 0844 635 9245 Sheriff Park, 600, 2, 1S 1D CG P, 0844 635 9245 Ferry Road, 595, 2, 2D G CG O, 0844 635 9328 North Junction Street, 595, 2, 2D G, 0844 635 9384 Stead’s Place, 595, 2, G, 0844 635 9384 Cadiz Street, 575, 2, 1S 1D G P, 0844 635 2418 Bonnington Mews, 550, 2, 1S 1D E P, 0844 635 4820 Dock Place, 550, 2, 2D W, 0844 635 4820 Springfield, 550, 2, 1S 1D W CG P, 0844 635 9318 Leith Walk, 530, 2, 2D, 0844 635 3700 Ashley Place, 525, 2, 2D, 0844 635 3700 Great Junction Street, 525, 2, 2D E CG O, 0844 635 9592 Commercial Street, 695, 1, 1D P, 0844 635 4638 Johns Place, 625, 1, 0844 635 9338 Commercial Street, 600, 1, G P, 0844 635 6450 Mcdonald Road, 600, 1, 1D G P, 0844 635 9320 The Vaults, 560, 1, 1D, 0844 635 4820 Buchanan Street, 525, 1, 1D E O, 0844 635 2152 Elgin Terrace, 525, 1, CG, 0844 635 4475 Iona Street, 525, 1, 1D E CG O, 0844 635 9594 Lindsay Road, 525, 1, 1D G O, 0844 635 9446 Pirrie Street, 525, 1, 1D G CG O, 0844 635 9578 Salamander Street, 525, 1, 1D G O, 0844 635 9679 Bernard Street, 500, 1, G Z, 0844 635 3880 Croall Place, 500, 1, 1D, 0844 635 3700 Albert Street, 495, 1, 1D G CG O, 0844 635 9238 Balfour Street, 495, 1, 1D G, 0844 635 9332 Great Junction Street, 485, 1, 1D W O, 0844 635 9434 Albert Street, 475, 1, 1D G CG O, 0844 635 9238 Springfield Buildings, 450, 1, 0844 635 4820 Buchanan Street, 430, 1, 1D E, 0844 635 9318
Area
Bedrooms Monthly Rent Location
Duke Street, 425, 1, 1D G Z, 0844 635 9560
Leith Walk Albert Street, 1100, 5, 5D G CG Z, 0844 635 9679 Leith Walk, 995, 5, 5D G CG, 0844 635 9679 Croall Place, 1000, 4, 1S 3D, 0844 635 3700 Croall Place, 1000, 4, 4D O, 0844 635 9314 Leith Walk, 995, 4, 1S 3D, 0844 635 3700 Great Junction Street, 900, 4, 1S 3D G CG O, 0844 635 9488 Dalmeny Street, 945, 3, 3D, 0844 635 3700 Allanfield, 850, 3, 1S 2D E, 0844 635 3330 Ryehill Avenue, 850, 3, G PG, 0844 635 4475 Leith Walk, 750, 3, 3D G CG Z, 0844 635 9679 Leith Walk, 725, 3, 3D, 0844 635 3700 Hopetoun Crescent, 695, 2, P, 0844 635 4475 Smith’s Place, 695, 2, 2D P, 0844 635 9316 Hopetoun Street, 650, 2, 0844 635 9338 Brunswick Road, 625, 2, 2D G Z, 0844 635 9679 Iona Street, 625, 2, 1S 1D G CG O, 0844 635 9422 Leith Walk, 600, 2, 2D, 0844 635 3700 Pirrie Street, 580, 2, 2D G CG O, 0844 635 3780 Leith Walk, 525, 2, 2D W O, 0844 635 9326 Balfour Street, 575, 1, 1D G O, 0844 635 4820 Allanfield, 500, 1, 1D W CG O, 0844 635 3780 Allanfield, 450, 1, 1D W CG P, 0844 635 9326 Albert Street, 445, 1, O, 0844 635 9352
Marchmont Warrender Park Terrace, 2250, 5, 2S 3D G, 0844 635 4820 Spottiswoode Road, 925, 3, 1S 2D 1B G CG, 0844 635 9245 Sienna Gardens, 750, 2, 2D G, 0844 635 9390 Blackwood Crescent, 725, 2, 1S 1D G O, 0844 635 6450 Marchmont Crescent, 725, 2, G CG Z, 0844 635 9558 Roseneath Terrace, 695, 2, 2D 1B E O, 0844 635 9324
Meadowbank Parsons Green Terrace, 1050, 4, 4D G CG O, 0844 635 9679 Parsons Green Terrace, 1050, 4, 2S 2D, 0844 635 3700 Parsons Green Terrace, 1000, 4, 2S 2D O, 0844 635 9314 Wolseley Terrace, 1000, 4, 4D G CG O, 0844 635 9679 Wolseley Terrace, 1000, 4, 4D, 0844 635 3700 Wolseley Terrace, 1000, 4, 4D O, 0844 635 9314 Meadowbank Terrace, 750, 3, 3D G CG O, 0844 635 9679 Meadowbank Terrace, 750, 3, 3D O, 0844 635 9314 Queens Park Court, 695, 2, 0844 635 9338 Parsons Green Terrace, 650, 2, 2D G CG O, 0844 635 9679 Royal Park Terrace, 650, 2, 2D G CG O, 0844 635 2418 Meadowbank Crescent, 640, 2, 2D G Z, 0844 635 9560 Meadowbank Crescent, 625, 2, 1S 1D G O, 0844 635 4820 Parson Green Terrace, 650, 1, 1D 1B G O, 0844 635 4820 Meadowbank Crescent, 525, 1, 1D W CG O, 0844 635 9448 London Road, 520, 1, 1D, 0844 635 3780
Earlston Place, 475, 1, W Z, 0844 635 9688
Morningside Morningside Road, 2100, 5, 5D G CG Z, 0844 635 2287 Morningside Road, 1600, 5, 5D Z, 0844 635 9314 Morningside Road, 1400, 5, 5D G Z, 0844 635 9679 Morningside Road, 1400, 5, 3S 2D, 0844 635 3700 Morningside Road, 1400, 5, 5D, 0844 635 3700 Morningside Road, 1400, 5, 3S 2D Z, 0844 635 9314 Morningside Road, 1200, 5, 5D Z, 0844 635 9314 Comiston Road, 1400, 4, 4D CG O, 0844 635 9314 Belhaven Terrace, 1200, 4, 2S 2D, 0844 635 3700 Morningside Road, 1200, 4, 4D G Z, 0844 635 9679 Morningside Road, 1200, 4, 4D, 0844 635 3700 Morningside Road, 1200, 4, 2S 2D, 0844 635 3700 Morningside Road, 1200, 4, 4D Z, 0844 635 9314 Steels Place, 990, 3, 1S 2D, 0844 635 3700 Comiston Road, 895, 3, 3D, 0844 635 3700 Balcarres Street, 850, 3, 3D, 0844 635 3700 Morningside Drive, 970, 2, 2D G PG O, 0844 635 9362 Morningside Road, 800, 2, 2D G, 0844 635 4820 Morningside Road, 695, 2, 2D G CG O, 0844 635 3780 Balcarres Street, 675, 2, 1S 1D G CG O, 0844 635 2287 Falcon Court, 675, 2, 2D E CG P, 0844 635 9558 Craighouse Gardens, 650, 2, 2D E P, 0844 635 9592 Balcarres Street, 625, 2, 2D G O, 0844 635 4820 Balcarres Street, 525, 1, 1D O, 0844 635 9324 Balcarres Street, 485, 1, 1D E O, 0844 635 9592 Ethel Terrace, 315, 1, 2D W CG P, 0844 635 9234
New Town Ainslie Place, 2000, 6, 6D G, 0844 635 4820 Windsor Street, 1800, 5, 5D G CG P, 0844 635 4489 Eyre Place, 1500, 5, 5D, 0844 635 3700 Eyre Place, 1500, 5, 5D Z, 0844 635 9314 Barony Street, 1400, 4, 1S 3D G Z, 0844 635 9688 East London Street, 1400, 4, 4D G Z, 0844 635 9320 Scotland Street, 1400, 4, 4D G CG Z, 0844 635 9460 Wemyss Place, 4500, 3, 3D G, 0844 635 4820 Gloucester Place, 1650, 3, 3D CG Z, 0844 635 6450 Dundas Street, 1450, 3, 3D G PG Z, 0844 635 4820 Heriot Row, 1300, 3, 1S 2D G Z, 0844 635 4820 Windsor Street, 1300, 3, 3D G PG P, 0844 635 4489 Coates Gardens, 1295, 3, 3D G PG Z, 0844 635 9362 Royal Crescent, 1200, 3, 3D G Z, 0844 635 4820 St Stephen Street, 930, 3, 1S 2D, 0844 635 3700 Brunswick Street, 910, 3, 3D, 0844 635 9316 Drummond Place, 1495, 2, CG Z, 0844 635 9308 Royal Circus, 1100, 2, 2D G Z, 0844 635 4820 Huntingdon Place, 1000, 2, 2D G CG P, 0844 635 6872
Bedrooms: Heating: Garden: Parking: Furniture:
Royal Crescent, 1000, 2, 2D G Z, 0844 635 4820 Albyn Place, 950, 2, 2D, 0844 635 4820 Cumberland Street, 950, 2, Z, 0844 635 9308 Drummond Place, 950, 2, 2D G Z, 0844 635 4820 Gloucester Lane, 895, 2, Z, 0844 635 9308 Cornwallis Place, 850, 2, 2D G, 0844 635 4820 East London Street, 825, 2, 2D G P, 0844 635 9320 Henderson Row, 800, 2, CG Z, 0844 635 9352 Annandale Street, 775, 2, 2D G P, 0844 635 4820 Dundas Street, 775, 2, Z, 0844 635 9308 Huntingdon Place, 775, 2, 2D G P, 0844 635 4820 Silvermills, 775, 2, 2D G P, 0844 635 4820 Gloucester Lane, 750, 2, 2D G, 0844 635 6872 Royal Crescent, 750, 2, 2D 3B G CG Z, 0844 635 9464 Bellevue Street, 745, 2, CG O, 0844 635 9352 Cumberland Street, 725, 2, 2D G Z, 0844 635 9448 Eyre Place, 725, 2, 2D Z, 0844 635 9314 Barony Street, 720, 2, 2D W CG Z, 0844 635 9688 Brandon Street, 705, 2, 1D 1B G PG Z, 0844 635 4820 Bellevue Crescent, 700, 2, 2D G CG Z, 0844 635 9464 Gayfield Street, 695, 2, 1S 1D G O, 0844 635 4820 Broughton Road, 650, 2, 1B G Z, 0844 635 4830 Fettes Row, 560, 2, 1S 1D G, 0844 635 9318 Great King Street, 1100, 1, 1D G, 0844 635 4820 Great King Street, 700, 1, Z, 0844 635 9308 Howe Street, 700, 1, 1D, 0844 635 4820 Perth Street, 675, 1, 1S 1D G Z, 0844 635 4820 Leith Street, 615, 1, 1D Z, 0844 635 9314 Broughton Road, 600, 1, 1D G CG Z, 0844 635 4480 Cumberland Street Lane North East, 595, 1, 1D W Z, 0844 635 9314 Thistle Street, 595, 1, Z, 0844 635 9308 Canon Street, 550, 1, 1D W Z, 0844 635 9314 Broughton Road, 500, 1, 1D G CG O, 0844 635 4480 Jamaica Mews, 495, 1, 1D P, 0844 635 9324 Barony Street, 450, 1, 1D W CG Z, 0844 635 9688
Newington East Preston Street, 1575, 5, 5D, 0844 635 3700 East Preston Street, 1575, 5, 5D Z, 0844 635 9314 East Preston Street, 1400, 5, 5D Z, 0844 635 9314 Viewcraig Gardens, 1000, 5, 5D G P, 0844 635 9302 Clerk Street, 1400, 4, 4D G CG Z, 0844 635 2287 Montague Street, 1200, 4, 4D G CG Z, 0844 635 9679 Montague Street, 1200, 4, 4D, 0844 635 3700 Montague Street, 1200, 4, 4D Z, 0844 635 9314 South Oxford Street, 1200, 4, 1S 3D G, 0844 635 9245 Dalkeith Road, 1175, 4, 4D G O, 0844 635 9446 Mayfield Road, 1150, 4, 4D E Z, 0844 635 4820 Dalkeith Road, 1100, 4, 4D, 0844 635 3700 Mayfield Road, 1100, 4, 4D, 0844 635 9316 Viewcraig Gardens, 1000, 4, 4D E P, 0844 635 9302
S Single D Double T Twin B Box G Gas Central W White Meter E Electric PG Private CG Communal Z Zone O On-Street P Private UF Unfurnished
Causewayside, 850, 4, 4D G PG P, 0844 635 9464 Clerk Street, 295, 4, 4D G CG Z, 0844 635 9679 Mayfield Terrace, 1375, 3, 1S 2D G PG P, 0844 635 6872 East Suffolk Park, 995, 3, 0844 635 9308 Clerk Street, 980, 3, 3D G Z, 0844 635 9316 Lutton Place, 895, 3, 1S 2D G PG Z, 0844 635 9334 Montague Street, 890, 3, 1S 2D G Z, 0844 635 9384 Dalkeith Road, 875, 3, 3D G CG O, 0844 635 9324 Causewayside, 750, 3, 3D W CG Z, 0844 635 2418 Marchhall Road, 1350, 2, 2D G PG P, 0844 635 9300 East Suffolk Park, 950, 2, 2D G P, 0844 635 4820 Grantully Place, 950, 2, 2D G CG P, 0844 635 4820 Minto Street, 875, 2, 1B G CG Z, 0844 635 4478 Clerk Street, 750, 2, 2D G, 0844 635 9316 Nicolson Street, 750, 2, 1S 1D G CG Z, 0844 635 9679 Upper Gray Street, 750, 2, 1S 1D G P, 0844 635 4820 Langton Road, 650, 2, G, 0844 635 9424 Minto Street, 650, 2, 2D G P, 0844 635 9592 Montague Street, 650, 2, 2D CG Z, 0844 635 2418 Ratcliffe Terrace, 620, 2, 2D G CG Z, 0844 635 9362 Causewayside, 575, 2, 1S 1D, 0844 635 9245 Dalkieth Road, 475, 1, 1D G CG Z, 0844 635 9434
Old Town Ramsay Garden, 2000, 4, CG Z, 0844 635 9308 George Street, 1200, 3, Z, 0844 635 9308 High Street, 1050, 2, 2D G, 0844 635 4820 High Street, 1050, 2, 2D G, 0844 635 4820 Forrest Hill, 690, 2, 1S 1D, 0844 635 8696 Drummond Street, 600, 2, 2D E Z, 0844 635 9558 Canongate, 595, 1, 0844 635 9338 Calton Road, 550, 1, 1D E Z, 0844 635 9314 High Street, 550, 1, 0844 635 9338 Robertsons Close, Cowgate, 550, 1, 1D G PG Z, 0844 635 9578
Polwarth Hermand Terrace, 1400, 5, 5D, 0844 635 3700 Hermand Terrace, 1400, 5, 5D G CG, 0844 635 9679 Harrison Road, 1200, 4, 2S 2D, 0844 635 2418 Polwarth Gardens, 1200, 4, 4D E CG Z, 0844 635 9679 Polwarth Gardens, 975, 4, CG O, 0844 635 9308 Merchiston Avenue, 990, 3, 3D 1B G CG Z, 0844 635 2418 Harden Place, 875, 3, 3D G Z, 0844 635 9592 Slateford Road, 875, 3, 3D G CG O, 0844 635 9679 Ashley Terrace, 825, 2, 2D G Z, 0844 635 4820 Myreside Court, 725, 2, 2D G P, 0844 635 9340 Ogilvie Terrace, 695, 2, 2D G, 0844 635 9560 Tay Street, 695, 2, 2D 2B G Z, 0844 635 9302 Bryson Road, 650, 2, 2D G CG Z, 0844 635 4820 Harrison Road, 650, 2, 2D E P, 0844 635 9578 Tay Street, 650, 2, 2D 1B Z, 0844 635 4820
Temple Park Crescent, 625, 2, 1S 1D E Z, 0844 635 4820 Dundee Terrace, 600, 2, 2D G, 0844 635 9245 Ritchie Place, 495, 2, Z, 0844 635 9352 Polwarth Crecent, 625, 1, CG, 0844 635 4475 Watson Crescent, 600, 1, 1D G P, 0844 635 2418 Watson Crescent Lane, 600, 1, 1D G P, 0844 635 2418 Harrison Road, 595, 1, CG O, 0844 635 9352 Yeaman Place, 575, 1, 1D G CG O, 0844 635 6450 Bryson Road, 525, 1, 1D G CG Z, 0844 635 3768 Polwarth Crescent, 525, 1, 0844 635 4644 Watson Crescent, 510, 1, 1D G CG, 0844 635 9245 Polwarth Terrace, 495, 1, 0844 635 9338 Watson Crescent, 425, 1, 1D G, 0844 635 9318
Stockbridge India Street, 1250, 2, Z, 0844 635 9308 Atholl Place, 1200, 2, Z, 0844 635 9308 St Bernards Crescent, 1200, 2, 2D G CG Z, 0844 635 4820 Dean Street, 775, 2, CG Z, 0844 635 9352 Comely Bank Road, 725, 2, 2D G CG Z, 0844 635 4820 West Silvermills Lane, 720, 2, 2D E P, 0844 635 9302 Dean Park Street, 625, 2, 1S 1D 1B G CG Z, 0844 635 8696 Clarence Street, 775, 1, 1D G Z, 0844 635 9320 Comely Bank Place, 700, 1, 1D 1B G, 0844 635 4820 Cheyne Street, 695, 1, 1D G CG Z, 0844 635 4820 Hamilton Place, 625, 1, G CG, 0844 635 4475 Glenogle Road, 550, 1, 1D G CG P, 0844 635 3780 Henderson Row, 450, 1, 1D W Z, 0844 635 4820
Tollcross Gilmore Place, 1200, 3, 1S 2D G, 0844 635 9318 Lauriston Place, 675, 2, 2D G Z, 0844 635 9560 Lauriston Street, 580, 1, 1D, 0844 635 3700 Gilmore Place, 525, 1, 1D G PG Z, 0844 635 9424 Lochrin Place, 525, 1, 1D W P, 0844 635 4820 Brougham Street, 500, 1, 1D E, 0844 635 3780 East Fountainbridge, 475, 1, 1D E Z, 0844 635 4820
West End Morrison Street, 1340, 4, 4D Z, 0844 635 9314 Dean Park Crescent, 1195, 4, 1S 3D G Z, 0844 635 9422 Hampton Terrace, 1100, 4, 4D, 0844 635 3700 Alva Street, 950, 4, 4D G Z, 0844 635 9326 Coltbridge Gardens, 2750, 3, CG, 0844 635 9308 West End, 2500, 3, Z, 0844 635 9308 Eglinton Crescent, 1200, 3, Z, 0844 635 9308 Cornwall Street, 1000, 3, CG Z, 0844 635 9308 Coates Gardens, 950, 3, 3D G, 0844 635 9332 Coates Crescent, 1150, 2, 2D G Z, 0844 635 9320 Atholl Place, 995, 2, 1D 1T G Z, 0844 635 9320 Clarendon Crescent, 995, 2, 2D G, 0844 635 9245 Palmerston Place, 950, 2, 2D G CG Z, 0844 635 2418
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Council proposes fines for overloaded bins City’s environment convener proposes £50 fines for Edinburgh residents who don’t recycle enough Rachel Barr Local News editor
Edinburgh City Council has
announced its new ‘side waste’ policy which, as of this month, will refuse to pick up excess rubbish from the city’s bins. The initiative put into motion by Councillor Lesley Hinds – the city’s environment convener – outlines the council’s new strategy to ignore overly full bins or ones with rubbish left at the side during its fortnightly collection, followed by the added measures of bin labelling, written warnings and £50 fines. The council will send out 12 ‘environmental wardens’ every fortnight to name and shame households and businesses with over full bins. Disposal units which have waste beside them; are over full; or regular wheelie bins “if the lid cannot be shut” will all be ignored by bin men followed by warning labels being attached to them. Repeat offenders will be issued with letters asking them to reduce their waste with fines of up to £50 being issued. The policy has been introduced primarily to encourage recycling in Edinburgh. The council website explains: “We need to reduce the amount of waste being sent to landfill, and
increase recycling rates. This will save money which can then be invested into improving local services.” Cllr Lesley, in speaking about the initiative, has also stressed the importance of teaching Edinburgh residents to ‘take responsibility’ for their own waste management. She states: “If you are a resident and do your best for the environment and you are doing all your recycling and you see your neighbour just dumping these black bags, people will say, they’re not making their contribution, why should I do this?” However, the councillor’s plea for sensible waste management and individual responsibility falls short in light of Edinburgh Council’s own guidelines which warn that if you live in an area with a group of bins that put out in the same place – as the majority of Edinburgh student do – bins may be wrongly tagged ‘because we could not determine what resident presented the excess waste’. Further, the council has washed its hands of any disputes arising from the policy’s implementation, claiming that not only will additional collections not be made, but that they cannot get ‘involved directly with any neighbourhood disputes’. In this instance, the council helpfully advises wrongly accused residents to “speak to your neighbours” and “make them aware”
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Fears for student safety in Edinburgh have re-emerged after 35-year-old serial sex offender, Thomas Donnelly, was found guilty of attempting to rape a 21-year-old girl on her way home from a night out in the city centre. Donnelly – who was also charged with assault with the intent to rape in 2003 – was reported to have spent the night of the attack last July drinking on George Street before spending hours pacing up and down Lothian Road, where the incident took place. At around 4am, Donnelly followed the victim — a young woman who cannot be named for legal reasons — down the road. After catching up with her, she was pushed into a common stair where the attack took place. Passers-by quickly came to the young woman’s aid after hearing screams. Donnelly fled only to be caught further down Lothian Road.
This attack sparks fresh fears for student safety in Edinburgh following previous attacks on young women round the city in recent years. Other such assaults include the rape of a 20-year-old after a night out on George Street in 2010 by bogus taxi driver Sajjad Afzal and the sexual assaults of a 19 and a 21-year-old in the Meadows in November 2011. No arrests were made in connection with either of the Meadows attacks, which ignited significant concern among the student community. Following these attacks, Lothian and Borders police advised students walking alone at night to stick to well-lit routes, keep their mobiles on them and carry a panic alarm. EUSA also formed a ‘safer Edinburgh’ group, which worked alongside the police, in an attempt to protect vulnerable women. In response to the Lothian Road attack, ‘safer Edinburgh’ member Jacob Bloomfield stated that the city at night is “still not a safe place,” and that “there have not been visible moves to improve student safety in that area.” Speaking to The Journal, he stressed the importance of not only protecting female students against attacks externally but also within university venues: “We need to look at the student and staff safety in our own venues and not just see harassment and assault as something that happens ‘out there’.” Donnelly, who denied the attack, was found guilty of assault with the intent to rape last week. He will be sentenced in March at the High Court in Glasgow.
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<Insert Rubbish Image Caption Here> Tory councillor Jason Rust has argued against the policy, stating that issues with fortnightly collection are yet to be resolved. “It’s not great timing from a PR point of view to move to refusing to pick up extra waste when some people haven’t even been getting the rubbish
in their bins lifted. I hope the council has looked into the costs of all this extra tagging and letters and so on too”. These new initiatives, according to the council website, are intended to help in the city’s aim to move to a 50% recycling rate by 2015.
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MSPs clash over education funding Rift within Education and Culture Committee Gareth Llewellyn, Daniel do Rosario Two prominent members of the Scottish Parliament’s Education and Culture Committee have clashed over the future funding of education in Scotland. In exclusive interviews with The Journal over the last month, committee convener Stewart Maxwell (SNP) and deputy convener Neil Findlay (Scottish Labour) disagree over education funding, public services and how parliamentary committees should work in practice. Speaking before finance secretary John Swinney announced a £24.6 million cut to college funding in 2013/14, Findlay said: “The whole issue with colleges has been a major issue for the last 18 months and the Scottish government has very deliberately singled out colleges for very swinging cuts. “I know for the last few years, the NUS has been running fantastic campaigns, and last year over 100,000 students contacted MSPs — that’s phenomenal, and if the government doesn’t take heed of that, then they’ve got a problem. “This year, they’re proposing another £34m cut, we’ve already lost 1,600 jobs for college lecturers and the support staff, and it’s critical support staff who could provide bursary support, or teaching support, or IT support. “We’ve had massive cuts to the teaching budget which has meant fewer lectur-
ers, fewer courses, fewer places, and all of this at a time of rising and very stubborn youth unemployment just doesn’t make sense to me.” In response to the same question on cuts to college funding, and speaking after the budget was approved, Maxwell hit back to correct the £34.6m figure after the finance secretary found an additional £10m of funding for 13/14. He said: “There is a reduction, and nobody is trying to deny that, but [John Swinney] also announced an additional £51m in 2014/15 because the original planned expenditure on colleges was for £470m and it will now be £522m in 13/14 and £522m in 14/15 so effectively that’s an additional £61m above the planned expenditure and it provides good stability going forward for colleges. “So effectively, although there is a cut — and I wouldn’t deny it — in the budget this coming year, I think it’s manageable in the circumstances.” Amid ongoing regionalisation: cutting the number of colleges across Scotland to reduce duplication of provision and lower costs, the education committee members also disagreed strongly over the perceived protection of university funding while colleges suffer year-on-year budget cuts. Findlay went on the offensive about education secretary Mike Russell’s ‘tainted view of the world’after the denial of college waiting lists, labeling him a ‘Walter Mitty’ figure.
MSPs Neil Findlay and Stewart Maxwell He said: “The reality is that [the Scottish government] appears to be protecting university budgets and cutting college budgets. Now I’m not saying there has to be one or the other, but they’re deliberately making that choice and that impacts disproportionately on people from poorer backgrounds who really are the ones who need to get education and training. “I don’t know why, you’d have to ask Mike Russell, the education secretary, but there seems to be a very deliberate policy. “Mike Russell has a personal style that is very arrogant and very dismissive of anyone who doesn’t share Mike Russell’s tainted view of the world, and this is not just me saying that: it’s students, it’s college lecturers, it’s college principals. “He has said that [college waiting lists] are a ‘false concept’. Now tell that to all the young people who are waiting on a place at college. I think Mike Russell is a bit of a Walter Mitty figure.” Maxwell claimed to have heard that argument before and refused to accept it. He said: “The overall education budget is increasing, now what I don’t accept is the interpretation that is placed upon the increasing budget for
universities. “The universities budget was increased for very particular reasons. We had made a commitment going into the last election that we would maintain free education in Scotland and would not introduce tuition fees, so effectively that is what we did. “There’s always a cost to that, but we also committed that we would agree to fill what was called the funding gap between higher education funding in Scotland and higher education funding in England, post the increase in fees down south, but if you accept that that funding gap exists, all parties — as I understand it going into the 2011 election — had agreed that that funding gap should be filled. “I make no bones about supporting that position, I think that it’s a good thing for students in Scotland and very good for the higher education system in Scotland.” Maxwell went on to denounce further education as a Tory free-market competitive system of the early 1990s and said it was to blame for the state of further education in Scotland, which, he said, is what the SNP is trying to reform. He added: “I think to try and suggest
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that there’s some sort of taking money from the poor and giving it to the rich is frankly two-dimensional and incorrect.” As a former college student, Findlay outlined his appreciation for the benefit they bring to local communities, particularly in providing young people with skills with a view to employment, and criticised Scottish government decisions that have led to so-called waiting lists preventing young people from receiving the education and skills to find work. He said: “To solely focus on 16–19 year olds excludes the whole of the other people who are obviously getting less support, and in my own area, the Hall’s meat processing factory recently closed, 1,700 jobs there — most of them are above 16–19 — so what are we doing for those people? “I think it’s fair enough to have a range of options for people. Different people will need a different support and skills and have different ambitions, but we have to have quality projects that allow people to get to where they want to be rather than some of the anecdotal evidence we’re getting that some of these are not good quality.”
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Student uses facial advertising to pay tuition fees First-year Jay Jones, student, sells advertising space on his face Benjamin Lebus Staff writer
A first-year drama student at the
University of Edinburgh has decided on an intriguing way of making money by accepting payments to advertise on his face. Utilising his position of being situated in a living environment among 2,000 other students, he hopes to make a personal profit from the stunt. Walking down the streets of any town or city, one would think that the ideas of where to sell advertising space had been fully exploited. From billboards to streamlined movie spoilers on the side of a double-decker bus, it is clear that the advertising market is already saturated. When considering the various ideas, Jones said that he began thinking about money in a new way: “There must be something I can do that is
original.” He decided from the start that it should not be about putting the students out of their way financially: “I wanted to take advantage of the situation without taking advantage of the people”, he said, “I wanted to make the most of the secure position I am currently in.” Jones has branded his novel enterprise ‘Buy My Face 100’. The idea is that he will sell advertising space on his face for a total of 100 days. However he states he did not undertake this impressive feat exclusively in the pursuit of a pocketful of extra cash. For Jones, this venture has a more significant meaning. In an interview with The Journal, Jones observed that he will be: “Coming out of university, which doesn’t even guarantee a job, with a giant debt over [his] head.” This realisation, which is undoubtedly true
with unemployment standing at 2.49 million, is one that Jones believes needs to be acted upon. Jones is currently selling advertising space on his face for the monetary equivalent to the day number in his scheme, so on day one he sold the space for £1 and so forth. On being asked whether he thought this was a relatively slow progression, he answered: “It is a wacky idea, you can’t take yourself too seriously.” Despite this being a first at Edinburgh University students have used this method in the past to raise money. In 2011 two Cambridge graduates raised £3,500 in the first ten days. During a time in which the graduate jobs market is particularly competitive, Jay estimated that he and his 2,000 contemporaries would be labouring under a staggering debt of up to £50,000 when entering the employment market.
Art students’ short film nets animation Bafta
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Film-maker pair recognised at star-studded ceremony in London, as ECA students triumphant at Royal The Making of Longbird wins Best Short Animation prize Television Society Scotland Student Awards Greg Bianchi News editor
A pair of students from Edinburgh College of Art (ECA) have picked up a British Academy of Film and Television Award (Bafta) for their short 15 minute film, winning in the Best Short Animation category. Will Anderson and Ainslie Henderson won the award for their film entitled The Making of Longbird. The film follows film-maker Mr Anderson while he documents his exploits at trying to make a cartoon about the character ‘Longbird’ — an animated
Russian bird from 1911. The film was originally shown as part of the ECA 2011 Degree Show and has gone on to be featured at over 40 events across the world, winning a number of international awards, including festivals in Edinburgh, Brooklyn and Annecy. Speaking about the film ECA Principal Chris Breward said: “Edinburgh College of Art is enormously proud of the achievement of Will and Ainslie. “The Bafta win is a testament to the stunning quality of animation produced at the college and its international standing, and a great spur to further success. Congratulations all round.” In addition to this Mr Henderson
won a second award for his film I am Tom Moody. Speaking to The Journal Mr Anderson said: “I was delighted to receive the Bafta for Short Animation. It is truly a great honour. “I have luckily received many film festival awards for the film The Making of Longbird, but this one is definitely the highest profile. “I make things out of a love for animation and film, so I never expected to walk away with a Bafta mask. Ainslie and I have just written another short film which will hopefully be in production very soon. We also have a television series in development.”
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Two films made by ECA students
have won awards at the Royal Television Society (RTS) Scotland Student Awards. The RTS Scotland Student Awards ceremony, an annual event for student filmmakers in Scotland, was held on 29 January and saw ECA students Ainslie Henderson, Kieran Gosney and Kestrel Cheswick pick up awards in two categories. Henderson won the animation category for his film My Name is Tom Moody, while Kieran Gosney and Kestrel Cheswick picked up an award in the fiction category with Flashbulb, as director and producer respectively. Kieran Gosney spoke to The Journal about Flashbulb, a 10-minute drama which focuses on the power of memory in family relationships: “Obsessed with recreating a happy memory from childhood, Daniel, a reclusive young man, builds an elaborate machine to help him remember. However, troubling memories of his estranged alcoholic father prevent him from happily dwelling in the past. “The film was shot over five days in March with a crew of 17, mostly ECA students. The film is almost entirely without dialogue and required a lot of care and attention paid to the visuals and sound design, which meant everyone had to work hard to achieve professional results in design and presentation without much time or an appropriate budget to work with. “The award win was a welcome surprise and will do wonders for the promotion of the film as well as provide good currency for future festival applications.”
The winners are automatically entered into the RTS UK Student Awards. Six Scottish universities and colleges competed in this year’s awards with winners from ECA, City of Glasgow College, Edinburgh Napier University, and the University of Stirling. The four categories were animation, entertainment, factual and fiction, and winners were decided by a panel of six judges from the TV industry in Scotland. RTS Scotland chair Henry Eagles praised the high standard of work: “There were some brilliant entries. ECA’s animation films were outstanding and reinforced the college’s worldwide reputation in this field. All the other winners and nominees were first class and the Scottish successes will do well in the UK-wide competition later this year.” RTS Scotland holds a variety of events through the year with particular focus on Scottish production teams and programmes and issues affecting television in Scotland.
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40,000 enrol in Edinburgh alien life course Astrobiology MOOC aims to question the origin of the Earth — as well as considering the possibility of life on Mars Louise Wilson
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40,000 people have enrolled in a course offered by the University of Edinburgh that discusses the search for other life forms in the universe. The course, entitled ‘Astrobiology and the Search for Extraterrestrial Life’, is a free online course that was first offered in July 2012. The latest instalment began on 28 January and in its first week attracted over 18,000 active students.
It is one of six courses offered as part of Edinburgh’s Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs), in partnership with the Coursera consortium. The Astrobiology course, taught by Professor Charles Cockell, has attracted students from all over the globe, including India, Canada and Kosovo. It aims to question the origin of the Earth as well as examine the possibility of life on Mars. Professor Cockell was very positive about the popularity of his course.
He said: “MOOCs can act as a way for people to get a taste of different subjects for free and in a quite short space of time. This way people can make more informed choices about higher education as well as learning about a new subject at the same time.” Professor Cockell also admitted he had been surprised at the overall response. He added: “So far no one has actually spotted anything extra-terrestrial yet but in general the feedback for the course has been very positive.”
The MOOCs overall have been a success, gaining over 300,000 students. In the past two months alone, enrolment has increased by 50 per cent. Enrolment numbers are evenly spread across the six courses. Professor Sir Timothy O’Shea, University of Edinburgh principal, said he was ‘thrilled’ that these courses had gained such wide interest. He said: “I am delighted that these free courses have caught the imagination of the public and they also act as a great complement to our rapidly
expanding efforts in providing other forms of online teaching, including full postgraduate and other distance-learning courses.” ‘Astrobiology and the Search for Extraterrestrial Life’ covers many topics including life in extreme environments, the origin of life and conditions to be found on other planetary bodies. It uses a series of lectures of between 10 to 20 minutes in six modules over five weeks to communicate the key ideas of astrobiology.
Na-pull-the-other-one! Sister of general’s shoe in Aberdeen Museum assistant uncovers the tiny slippers of Napoleon’s sister and the long distance they’ve travelled since Kirsten Waller Academic News editor
Slippers belonging to Pauline
Borghese, the sister of Napoleon Bonaparte, have been unearthed in the University of Aberdeen museum collections. Louise Wilkie, a curatorial assistant, discovered the tiny pale brown and pink shoes, measuring 40mm across and just over 10cm long — a
size now equivalent to a UK child’s size 2. The slippers were found in a collection left to the university by Robert Wilson, an extensive traveller, who bequeathed a substantial number of items on his death in 1781. Having been asked to clean and sort the Wilson collection, Ms Wilkie discovered the slippers in a chest of clothes, simply marked “Pauline Rome”. A catalogue of the Wilson items held by the museum described the objects as “a pair of slippers —
Pauline, Rome Jan 20 1824”, with an identical engraving on the sole. However, such a description did not provide conclusive evidence of the identity of the original wearer. In a statement, Ms Wilkie described how she began to investigate the shoes origin: “I began to look at other archival material held by the university and found that Wilson had a friendship with Princess Pauline Borghese, the sister of Napoleon Bonaparte. Researchers
have also concluded that the size of the slippers suggests that they were worn by Pauline, who was known to have incredibly small feet. Pauline lived in relative poverty in her early years, along with the rest of the Bonaparte family. She was later married to Camillo Borghese, the sixth Prince of Sulmona, in a match consciously pushed by Napoleon and her other brothers. Ms Wilkie also provided insight into the nature of the relationship between
Wilson and Pauline. Neil Curtis, the Head of Museums at the university said: “The university holds huge collections and many of the items given to us over the years do not have full descriptions. “It was a great piece of detective work from Louise to piece together the fascinating history behind the slippers.” The slippers have now been exhibited for the first time in the University’s King’s Museum, in a display entitled 100 Curiosities.
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Unknown Burns manuscripts uncovered Academics hail discovery of unseen manuscripts shedding light on the private life of Scotland’s well-known poet Kirsten Waller Academic News editor
Carrying out research in the field of literature can be a relatively predictable task. Unlike science, it is rare for new discoveries to be made, either on a ground-breaking or small scale. The body of knowledge is not constantly being added to by previously unknown facts and theories, as most primary sources have already been found and catalogued. The study of poetry, plays and novels usually involves careful reanalysis of existing documents and arguments, with students and scholars keen to find a new angle from which to approach well-known works. So when a previously unseen, or famously lost document is unearthed, it can be incredibly exciting – a oncein-a-lifetime chance to get a more accurate picture of writers long dead. The writer in question is Robert Burns, and the find comprises seven documents: four letters; some from Burns, some from his close friends, two poetic manuscripts and one epistle addressed to Burns himself. The papers were found in a copy of ‘The Works of Robert Burns’, edited by W. Scott Douglas, dating from 187779. The book is thought to have been in the possession of William Paterson, Douglas’ publisher, and it is thought that some of the papers may have at one time been owned by Dr William Maxwell, Burns’ physician and personal friend. Indeed, one of the letters, previously unpublished, is from Maxwell to Clarinda (otherwise known as Mrs McLehose) – a very intimate correspondent of Burns’, despite being a married woman. The letter consists of Clarinda begging for the return of her notes, in case they should be published and her infidelity revealed to her husband. She also asks Maxwell for details of Burns’ last moments, as the physician was present when the poet died. Professor Gerry Carruthers, CoDirector of the University of Glasgow’s Centre for Robert Burns Studies, spoke of the impact that the manuscripts could have on how scholars viewed, among other things, Burns’ death and creative process. Carruthers stated that “the Maxwell-McLehose exchange [brings] poignant and important additional detail to the immediate aftermath of Burns’ death and its effect on those whom he had loved.” He added: “it is very exciting that such lost manuscript material continues to emerge in the 21st century.” The researcher responsible for this excitement is Chris Rollie, a conservationist for RSPB Scotland and a Burns enthusiast. Born and brought up in New Cumnock in Ayshire, Rollie first started reading Burns as a teenager; and a passionate hobby soon became a part-time professional occupation. In an interview with The Journal, Rollie described himself as “pretty steeped in [Burns for] most of my adult life.” He has published a number of articles and several books on the subject, including Robert Burns in England, focusing on the time the poet spent travelling away from his native
land. Rollie describes Burns studies as a small field, a fact that will seem surprising to some, given the cultural and popular clout that the poet wields in Scotland. “There are people interested in Burns all around the world but in terms of [a] degree of study and expertise...there are a number but not all of them are academics.” Having established a reputation as a reliable source on Burns-related texts, Rollie received a phone call in 2010 from an old friend, enquiring about a 19th Century copy of ‘The Works...’ that had been in her house for decades. He receives such calls relatively regularly, and says that usually, the results are disappointing. “99 times out of 100, I have to let them down gently and say, well they might be very nice […] but they’ll probably be of very little monetary value and even less scholarly value, because there were thousands of them produced.” However, something about the way the texts were described made him take notice: “there was just something she said that made me want to have a look…she came, had tea and [once alone] I got the books out and had a look at them...” “...within 15 minutes I could see that there was original material in there...these were really special.” The book was bought by James Boyd - presumably after it had passed out of the possession of William Paterson. Originally from Paisley, Boyd was in the textile business, and moved to Kintyre in the early 20th Century. He was a prolific collector of both Scottish art and Scottish literature and filled his home, Carskiey House, with extensive examples of both. After his death in 1915, Boyd’s house was sold twice, in 1947 and 1963; both times with full contents, meaning the original collection was preserved more
or less intact. The lost manuscripts had been bound into the book sometime after publication — why is uncertain — and remained unexamined for almost 50 years until Rollie examined them. The book was re-examined by specialist antiquarian dealers, who confirmed that the documents were indeed original. They were then sold to a private collector. Rollie says he feels lucky to have been able to examine the manuscripts, and to have made sure that they didn’t remain ignored for ever: “They might just have been sold with the house [and then] who knows how long they might have sat there with the new owners of the house not being interested and not realising...It’s a chance in a lifetime really; I feel very privileged to have been involved in it.” Having been able to further examine the texts after they were sold, Rollie gave a small summation of his
findings at the World Burns Federation Conference in Peebles in 2011. He has recently delivered a much more extensive paper at the Glasgow Burns Conference, on 12 January. Among other findings revealed were a series of corrections to ‘Phillis the fair’, one of the songs that Burns composed, and the re-discovery of Address to a Woodlark, which was presumed lost. As he put it, “it’s fair to say it’s caused a fair bit of interest.” Burns clearly holds a special place for Rollie, as he seems to for many people in Scotland and further afield. When asked what he thinks it is that sparks this often very personal attachment, Rollie states it very plainly: “he appeals to just about everyone; regardless of their colour, creed or background.” Given the enthusiasm that has already been shown in his findings, it seems unlikely that fans of Burns will
be losing interest any time soon.
IN BRIEF / ROBERT BURNS BORN IN RURAL Ayrshire in 1759, Robert Burns grew up in poverty, the eldest of seven children born to an unsuccessful tenant farmer. His first volume of poetry, the ‘Kilmarnock volume’, was published in 1786 to great acclaim, and Burns became an instant star of the Edinburgh literary scene. In 1788, he left Edinburgh for Dumfries, but his health began to fail and he died in 1796 aged just 37. A known political radical and Scots patriot, and a leading figure in the Romantic movement, Burns has since his death become regarded as perhaps the greatest Scottish writer. His work, written in both English and Scots, is a prominent part of Scotland’s cultural and literary canon, and his birthday — 25 January — is celebrated as an unofficial national holiday.
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EDINBURGH’S STUDENT NEWSPAPER EUSA referendum
Behold, the awesome power of trustees’ statements The Journal has a dream — it is different from Martin Luther King’s but in some ways a whole lot more achievable. We have a dream that within these pages, and especially in these editorials, we might write such precious lines as: “it’s refreshing to see the Edinburgh University Students’ Association conducting itself with the openness and transparency which we would expect from a democratic body.” However, following another referendum debacle, this dream seems some way off from reality yet. It would be refreshing to praise the changes that were made for this ref-
erendum — it was slightly easier, after all, to log in and actually vote, following the ridiculous rigmarole that was involved last term. However, it was a new addition which really challenged the fairness of the referendum itself, the ideals of democracy that EUSA so vociferously prides itself on. The ‘trustee statements’ which were included on four of the questions, should clearly have been included on the corresponding ‘Yes’ or ‘No’ argument page with which it conferred. The point is even more glaring when you consider that only three of the 17 questions included statements both for and against.
To claim that they had no effect is patently false. One particular question had been posed twice before, never reaching the quorate but always having fewer than 50 votes against. This time, coupled with a ‘trustee statement’ clearly urging the voter towards a ‘No’ vote, it registered near enough 1000 votes against. That is quite the coincidence. The poser of the question was offered no right of reply, so it appeared on the webpage as: “Should Eusa do ‘X’?” “No, because it would cost EUSA ‘X’” — a question with an answer, rather than the straight choice you might foolishly expect from a referendum.
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Resisting the urge of presumption The death of Reeva Steenkamp —
model and girlfriend of Olympic track star Oscar Pistorius, at whose home police found her body — was followed by the predictable press furore. Some publications’ coverage was more sensitive than that of others. Some outdid themselves: The Sun, as usual, provided the most boorish splash, using a fullpage photograph of a bikini-clad Ms Steenkamp alongside a headline laden with insinuation. Such seismic news concerning an international icon inevitably prompts pressure for immediate answers, as so many people have invested own personal emotions in one individual. However, that individual is essentially a complete stranger about whom few consumers of the current coverage know the first thing. There may be pressing questions, but
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there are no clear answers forthcoming. Forensics teams are far from finished combing Mr Pistorius’ home for evidence; the results of the post-mortem are not to be made public; meanwhile witnesses’ accounts are sought out, seized and distorted prior to the refinement of the court procedure. Nothing definite or positive can come from ‘reading into’ the current reports - of Pistorius’ tears in the courtroom as he heard the murder charge, or of the fact that he and Ms Steenkamp had only been involved for a matter of months. The matters of alleged previous police calls to Mr Pistorius’ address and the rumoured presence of numerous weapons in his home should not be presumed relevant. No matter how neatly we think the dots join up, if Mr Pistorius is charged with murder and he contests the charge then there is only
one judgement to be made - and it will not be made by any of us. Such wide-ranging speculation as the past few days have witnessed can quickly gather pace as everyone struggles to comprehend what the tragedy means to them personally. But it is distastefully self-serving to fuel the hearsay with ill-informed arguments, no matter how decent the intentions. Some respectful distance, borne from acknowledgement of our ignorance, is what the current situation requires. Patience is all that will see this matter resolved satisfactorily and, no matter who is guilty and who is innocent, a continuation of such gossip - masquerading as critical analysis - not only does each of us a disservice but will only make the truth that much harder to deal with for those at the centre of this case who, one day, will have to try to resume their lives.
by Jen Owen
Online referenda were brought in under the auspices of greater democracy. Instead, EUSA’s trustees have utilised them here to sway students’ opinions unfairly. That they felt the need to precis certain questions with barely-veiled threats (particularly given their patchy-at-best track record when it comes to upholding policy passed by the student body; who recalls their unilateral overturning of the SABMiller boycott?) shows you just how much faith they have in a ‘greater democracy’ that — heaven forbid — might actually have them follow the will of the student body every once in a while.
//CLARIFICATION ‘Student paper silenced by EUSA legal action’ (issue 67, 6 Feb 2013)
A news report and accompany-
ing editorial about EUSA’s decision to take legal action against The Student, published in the last issue of The Journal, partially misstated the terms of the interdict granted by the Court of Session. The attempt to ban The Student from publishing “any material purporting to suggest that [EUSA] is an organisation which is poorly governed and whose management are inexperienced and unaccountable” was actually requested by EUSA’s solicitors, Turcan Connell, in their submission to the court, but was not discussed in the final interdict issued by Lord Jones. We regret the error - Eds.
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The Anatomy of Autonomy: Scottish identity and nationhood
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An interesting piece, very much agree Scottish identity (and all human identity) is a very fluid and dynamic thing.
DEPUTY EDITOR (SPORT) Ruth Jeffery
One issue though, this statement seemed a wee bit unfair towards the independence movement (although I agree with the sentiment that isolationism is bad) - ‘Scottish identity and nationalism should not be a facilitator of an isolationist attitude’.
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I assure you, the independence movement is not isolationist. Scotland will in all likelyhood remain in the EU, NATO, CoE, the Commonwealth etc. That’s the plan anyways. - Scott Dearden, via web. . Please direct all letters, complaints, threats and general rants for publication to letters@journal-online.co.uk. Letters may be edited prior to publication. To contact a specific member of staff, email firstname.lastname@ journal-online.co.uk. Alternatively, follow us on Twitter (@EdJournal and @GlasgowJournal) and like us on Facebook.
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Max Crema: breaking the suspense The controversial EUSA vice-president breaks the silence on his suspension from office and EUSA censorship Max Crema EUSA Last July, shortly after starting my term as vice-president services at Edinburgh University Students’ Association, I was suspended from my job. Following my return to office 10 weeks later, I knew that the correct thing to do was what I now intend to do with this article: to clearly explain to the student body who elected me the actions I took, so that they may hold me to account if they so wish. At that point, however, I just wanted to keep my head down and get on with my job; I didn’t want the rest of my term to become a running battle over something that I could no longer change. I can only apologise for not having done this sooner; you be surprised by how much pressure I’ve come under to keep this whole affair quiet. EUSA is a very strange contradiction: an organisation purporting to be democratic and transparent but operating under a legal and market framework which explicitly constrains those two ideals. When a sabbatical officer’s political ideals conflict with the strict requirements forced upon them by charity law, employment law and a market economy, you are presented with a uniquely difficult decision: do you remain true to your principles, and thus expose yourself to legal and HR action? EUSA recently sought and received
an interdict against The Student newspaper from the Court of Session in Edinburgh, to prevent the publication of an article about me. However, the interdict wasn’t sought in order to protect me. The Court of Session isn’t in the business of protecting student sabbatical officers’ reputations. The article violated the privacy of a large number of EUSA staff, breached our employment regulations — thereby threatening our staff’s rights — and it was exceptionally likely that both The Student and EUSA would face legal action as a result of its publication. I have no doubt in my mind that taking legal action was the correct decision — although I disagree with the scope and scale of the order EUSA asked for. Holding a sabbatical to account for their actions is one of the most important roles of a student newspaper on campus. Anything which threatens their ability to do so should be decried, but this commitment should not come at the expense of the rights of our staff. The article The Student wished to publish was an attack on the rights of our staff to improve their working conditions. I hope that my being open here about my actions will mean that we can focus on holding me to account, and leave our staff out of it. Before taking office, I published a number of tweets from my personal Twitter account which included the phrase “fuck old people”. I wrote these tweets out of frustration with the brutal economic attacks being made on our generation; attacks which deny us the
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‘The interdict wasn’t sought in order to protect me. The Court of Session isn’t in the business of protecting student sabbatical officers’ reputations. The Student article violated the privacy of a large number of EUSA staff.’ same level of social support enjoyed by generations older than ourselves, and which force us to compete ever more fiercely against one another. I don’t say this in order to excuse what I wrote; those tweets were inappropriate, immature and offensive and I should never have written them. I say this merely to explain and hopefully to allow you to understand that my tweets were ageist in substance but not in essence. Furthermore, while suspended last summer I published an anonymous guest post to my official EUSA blog
alleging unsafe working conditions and sexual harassment in festival venues in Edinburgh. This was interpreted to have been written by a EUSA employee, and caused a significant debate about whether or not the post’s allegations were fair, with a number of EUSA staff members both attacking and defending the blog post in the pages of The Journal. I didn’t intend for that blog post to have been interpreted as being about EUSA, but rather had aimed to highlight what I perceived to be a serious problem facing Edinburgh University students.
I hope that by going public with this, we can begin to put it behind us. I hope that the student body can appreciate that I will likely face repercussions simply for addressing this matter publicly, and I hope that we can remember that, while it’s fair game to hold me to account as an elected representative, our staff have a right to privacy which should be respected. Max Crema is vice-president services at Edinburgh University Students’ Association.
Scandalous! Censored by... The Journal The EUSA censorship row was nothing; Edinburgh Anonymous struggles to air The Journal’s own dirty laundry Edinburgh Anonymous For this edition, the teeth-nashing of recent columns makes way for a rare spot of bean-spilling. Following the recent censorship spat between Edinburgh University Students Association (EUSA) and its newspaper The Student (I know, I’ve never heard of it either), The Journal has endured a similar scandal – a shadowy saga of monstrous proportions and dire consequences for free speech, which began with one innocuous incident last year. Alas, The Edinburgh Journal Limited doesn’t want the world to know which of their editors that incident concerns. Nor do they want anyone to discover just where on the scale of stupidity said editor appeared, dancing (to some extent or other) in a hat of undisclosed colour and alleged – but entirely unfounded
– silliness. It really wasn’t much of a story until The Journal threw such a pathetic, childish tantrum – an overreaction of gross disproportion that flies in the face of everything they stand for. Indeed, had they remained contrite on the matter people would have defaulted to not caring. However, the publication has essentially fashioned the soapbox which Edinburgh Anonymous is now only too glad to mount. Supposing that this revised article has survived the editing process, then there is nothing The Journal can do about it now – apart from sue themselves, of course. But imagine that! Fighting yourself in court – what a ridiculous notion. What an utterly ridiculous notion. Still, at least Edinburgh Anonymous isn’t staggering arse-first into heaps of undeserved publicity, by being stupid enough to leave the right of reply until the last possible second. No, because I’m good at my job and I made sure to leave enough time that some version of my pub-
lication, however censored, could still be released. Sean Gibson, editor-in-chief of The Edinburgh Journal, was indeed available for comment on the matter; however, his statement was so maddeningly vague and so thoroughly numbing of the mind as to constitute a threat of injury to readers, so it was duly ignored. The editor-in-chief seems happy to step up alone, though, taking all the flak directed his way for this scandal with the quiet indignity of a hands-bound patsy. Quite clearly he doesn’t have the nous for so brutish a cover-up as this. Have you seen him out and about, all mouth and no trousers? When have you ever actually seen him do anything effective? No, this is the work of those in the shadows, higher up, pulling strings and making everything look horribly like a scene from Reservoir Dogs – that one at the end where everyone dies. Spoiler! So you see, there’s something truly rotten going on here – way beyond the mere facts of this particular news story.
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HOLIDAYS: ADVENTURE VERSUS HEDONISM
When Sally met Wolfgang on the continent Jon Vrushi argues the merits of Interrailing offering a more satisfying alternative to the party resorts of the mediterranean
Jon Vrushi Comment Editor
HEDONISM
Ten days of fornicating, binge drinking and cruising in the infamous Mediterranean party islands is the most irrational and illogical way of spending one’s holidays. Not because fornicating and binge drinking is not fun, or because I am employing some moral relativism to judge the way people spend their leisure time; but it simply makes no sense because you might just as well go to Blackpool or some other tin-pot British holiday destination and do the aforementioned activities. That way you won’t have to pay that extra 100-odd pounds on an Easyjet or Ryanair flight and you will meet just about as many British people as you would in Zante, Magaluf or Kavos. If you do plan to spend ten days abroad, you might as well use that time, money and effort to do something that Britain doesn’t offer. The galleries of Paris, the wonderful array of beers in Brussels, the parks and palaces of Vienna, the historic sights of Berlin, the theatres of Milan and the honey-flavoured liqueurs in Zagreb are a good starting point. The main contact that a lot of my British friends have had with the old continent’s nations is through the study of history at school. However, there seems to be a noticable bias in this country’s secondary education history curriculum towards the teaching of Nazi atrocities, Fascist Italy and Stalinist Russia which all but puts youngsters off Europe. The other major contact with European nations is through sports and football fan chants such as ‘There are ten german bombers in the air’.
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Under these circumstances, Euroscepticism has come to be accepted as an inherent part of the British character and sensibility. This is not to suggest that Euroscepticism is a byproduct of the lack of travelling around Europe and getting to know the culture and people of its nations; however, an important part of the adamant refusal to be part of the European project stems from perceiving Europe as something alien and incompatible to the ‘British lifestyle’, whatever that means. Interrailing is perhaps the best way of familiarising oneself with Europe and trying to understand the
people, the culture and the history a bit better. With dirt-cheap interrail tickets, convenient youth-friendly hostels and plenty of information on the internet, it is now easier then ever to explore Europe. Interrailing is a deeply enriching experience. It is a discovery of the countries and cultures you visit as much as it is a discovery of yourself, your passions, sensibilities and weaknesses. Obviously not everyone is interested in high culture and history but that is not what Europe is all about. Great food and drink, outstanding scenery, beautiful architecture and
people with interesting stories are equally important in making Europe what it is. Interrailing is also about meeting people and understanding them first hand without prejudice or inherent biases. Great friendships have started on trains, long coach rides, in international stations or even hostel common rooms and memories to last a lifetime have been forged in these settings. Umberto Eco argues that it is culture that unites Europe more than anything else. In an interview for The Guardian he said: “a young Catalan man meets a Flemish girl —
they fall in love, they get married and they become European, as do their children.” Now, I am aware that many British people do not want to be European, and that is absolutely fine, so long as this conclusion is not a result of concentrated steady barrage of demagoguery and jingoistic rhetoric. If you don’t like Europe, it’s fine, but at least make an effort to dislike it through you own experiences; and making out with a mediterranean girl or boy whose name you don’t remember, and probably never even asked for, does not count as cultural exchange.
Club 18-30: The necessary holiday evil Interrailing won’t change people’s habits, its better then that they’re kept on these hedonic islands argues Jamie Timson
Jamie Timson Deputy editor
Ibiza, Magaluf, Kavos, Zante.
The destinations roll off the tongue like Sambucca off a young lady’s stomach. These are the holidays of choice for many of the lads and lasses of our fair isle and more praise to them, who’s to argue after all with the future of our country. Its all well and good sitting on our high horses claiming that the uncultured, unadventurous, unappealing party resorts are all wrong. However that would neglect the facts. Its not as if the nation’s youngsters don’t have a choice. Inter-railing is as well known now as its ever been, however the Aya Napa’s and Magaluf ’s are booming with British trade each summer. The perks of a holiday like that are obvious to the young. You can imagine the feeling, newly
18, unsure of themselves in this big wide world but sure of the urge to drink and even surer of the urge to do it with little to no clothing on. It can be imagined the thinking goes: sure culture’s great, you could even improve your mental capacity, your foreign language skills, but the downfall of inter-railing for the club 18-30 crowd is the moving around. Unless you’re planning on a 4 month trip, you’re never going to be able to suss a place out like you can if you go to a resort. Trying to remember your way home when your blind drunk is ten times harder when you’ve been to 6 cities in the past 2 weeks. Really, its safer to stay on one strip, on one island and eventually it becomes a second home. You can get your all day English breakfast from the café round the corner, head to the beach and get that must have lobster look before sinking into a few shots of tequila at
the local English pub. Whats not to love for a lad from Lincoln? Going interrailing won’t make you any less of a ‘Boozed Up Brits Abroad’ wannabe if you already were one, you see the problem isn’t with the destination it’s the people. You can’t force people to engage in culture that they’re not already interested in at home. Take Lothian Road on a Saturday night, there’s enough ‘culture’ there to last a lifetime, unfortunately its more bacteria than Botticelli. British stag groups have invaded all the cultural capitals of Europe anyway; they said Prague used to be quite nice once, before the booze, banter and brawls. I’m sure it wasn’t long ago that someone somewhere was saying, you know the young people of today should go to Thailand and the far east instead of Magaluf…now look at those backpacker havens. Look what the British has done to golden temples
and Vietnamese paddy fields. The club 18-30 crowd would behave exactly the same way if they were inter-railing as they do on a beach in the Mediterranean. Indeed an encounter with one such group springs to mind.Buoyed by their Amsterdam experience of drugs, debauchery and dick-ishness, a group of 4 boys from Manchester arrived off the train in Zagreb expecting more of the same. To their horror, they felt completely out of place, one boy complained without a hint of irony “I just don’t think it’s the done thing to walk around Zagreb with your top off.” Why should we subject the people of Europe to the behaviour of our young? Is it not the case then that Cos, Kavos, Malia et al serve a very vital purpose for the people of Britain and consequently benefits those on the continent too. Forgive me for some-
thing of an element of social Darwinism but these resorts have the infrastructure in place to house these teenagers, they have the economy that gets a much needed boost from their spending, and they’re situated on an island far away from anyone that might be offended. Its better that they’re over there than rampaging across Europe in mobile transport leaving a tequila flavoured vomit stained path of destruction in their wake. Actually, imagine if these teenagers were on an island all the time, imagine if binge drinking was so ingrained as a part of their culture that they did it every week, imagine the moral outrage at the youth of today on our high streets. Its not that difficult to imagine is it? Magaluf, Kavos, Zante and Ibiza are just extensions of modern British society. The problem isn’t the destinations it’s the people.
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Aid: Humanity or Wildlife? In a world with rapidly-depleting resources, is it time we switched focus from humanitarian aid to wildlife conservation? Lydia Willgress Features editor
“Africa has another story to tell. The wildlife on this continent has seen more changes in the last 50 years than it has in the last 2 million. Today’s animals are facing unprecedented challenges while around them Africa’s human population is growing at nearly double the global rate. There is an urgency to understand and, crucially, conserve the wildlife on this great continent. This is the greatest wildlife continent on the planet, and what happens here is relevant to us all.” So opened the final instalment of Africa; the latest David Attenborough documentary that has enthralled people across the country. Wildlife fan or not, the spectacular filming and moving stories have been the topic of numerous conversations, tweets, features and blogs. However, the last programme also explored a different sort of debate, one which is central to the evolution and stability of our planet: are there too many humanitarian charities and should we be putting more emphasis on conserving the world’s wildlife? When I was first confronted with this idea, I automatically swung in the humanitarian direction. Throughout my childhood, I was taught to give to those who didn’t have, I sobbed at Children in Need and Comic Relief and I spent a summer in Namibia helping children at local primary and secondary schools. The general attitude that ‘something must be done’ is one that my friends and family uphold; something we have all been taught. However, as species dwindle and
rainforests are cut back, it is hard to ignore the growing problem and people are questioning the lack of wildlife conservation more than ever. I think it is easy to forget that without wildlife the world would not continue as it is and, while there are news reports every day about the threats of global warming and urbanisation, our stance at the moment is not adequate. A survey compiled by The Guardian in 2012 highlights the extent of the situation. The Top 1,000 charities, listed in order of who receives the most donations per year, is dominated by health charities, such as Cancer Research UK, and global development groups. No wildlife charities feature in the Top 10, with the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (RSPCA) coming in at number 12, and the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB) just behind at number 14. Despite being placed 12th, the RSPCA take nearly 81 per cent less donations than the charity that claims the top spot. In such a competitive sector, 12 places costs you hundreds of thousands of pounds. While money isn’t everything, it is crucial when protecting the world’s animals. Unlike humans, if one species is affected — no matter whether it be an ant, a frog or a polar bear — the consequences can be catastrophic. Across the world food chains are complicated, with each animal relying on others for sustenance. From the trees, shrubs and grass, to the carnivores, and the scavengers; if you unbalance their environment, kill a species off, poach or hunt, the effect will ripple across the globe. Giving money to wildlife charities instead of humanitarian aid may seem
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harsh but it is undeniably self-inflicted. We wouldn’t have to be conserving wildlife if we weren’t encroaching on their territory. Shockingly, the latest figures suggest that the Amazon rainforest is being cut down at a rate of three football pitches per minute and it is not falling down by itself. Acres of trees are being continually cut down to make cheap furniture, wood sculptures and are even being turned into rubber for a wide
variety of domestic items. As the human population grows, this is pushing animals into smaller, more restricted habitats. In Rwanda, silverback gorillas have been forced up the sides of the volcanoes, as villages cultivate the fertile land and destroy the dense forest they used to inhabit. Closer to home, bees are in danger, as we build on meadows and fields and destroy the plants they pollinate.
As we give to charities that help build schools, extend villages and cultivate the landscape, it may be time to consider what effect this is having on our environment. While I don’t believe that all humanitarian aid should be stopped, perhaps it is the time to equalise the money and effort given to competing causes. Watching a baby elephant die is one thing, but never seeing them again is a completely different story.
A curious case of island identity crisis John Steel analyses the provocative statements of the Argentinian foreign minister in relation to the Falklands John Steel Staff writer
Recently the Argentinian foreign
minister claimed that ‘Falkland Islanders do not exist.’ Although he did not deny the presence of the 2,841 inhabitants on the islands, Héctor Timerman, on his first visit to London, explained that for historical reasons the islanders are
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merely ‘British citizens who live in the Islas Malvinas’. This twist of terminology is part of Argentina’s efforts to undermine the upcoming referendum on Falkland sovereignty. As the residents of the Falklands are poised to vote in favour of remaining under the United Kingdom in a referendum, it seems that Argentinian politicians are desperate to undermine the legitimacy of the vote. Like the Argentinian president, Cris-
tina Fernández de Kirchner, Timerman aims to frame the issue as ‘colonial’ by labeling Falklanders ‘settlers’. De Kirchner claimed in an open letter to David Cameron on the 3rd January, that following the seizure of the Islands Britain began ‘a population implantation process similar to that applied to other territories under colonial rule’. Though Héctor Timerman’s language was more provocative than that of his president, he was merely reiterating De Kirchner’s belief in the non-existence of ‘Falklanders’. Mr Timerman made his recent comments in an interview with The Guardian as William Hague, Britain’s Foreign Minister, declined to meet with Argentina’s representative. Throughout the course of the discussion Timerman’s made a series of audacious remarks and comparisons; at one point likening the Falklands to Jewish settlers in occupied Palestinian lands. Klauss Dodd’s, a professor at Royal Holloway University and author of ‘Pink Ice: Britain and the South Atlantic Empire’, described the logic of Timerman’s argument as ‘laughable’. Prof Dodd’s continued to add “It wasn’t as if there was an indigenous Argentine population there for centuries; far from it.” Though the UN general assembly voted in 1965 to consider the
islands a ‘colonial issue’ the lack of an ‘indigenous population’ that predates the arrival of Europeans sets this case apart from most over former colonies. As ‘British settlers’ the Argentine government would surely mean to expel the present community from the islands if they were to assume control. Though this would be a drastic move, whole communities have been forcibly removed from ‘colonies’ before: 1962 saw the exodus from French Algeria of around one million Europeans. Once the Europeans were gone there was, however, still a vast ‘indigenous’ population left to govern the decolonised state. Mr Timerman estimated that the Islands would be Argentinian in the next twenty years. If he is right, then the absence of an indigenous population would surely imply the need for an Argentinian policy of ‘population implantation’ of their own. It is therefore unclear why Timerman objects to Britain’s presence in the Falklands, on historical grounds. If he deems the Falklanders’ presence illegimate because they are racially European, then by the same token, the overwhelming majority of Argentinians would see the legitimacy of their presence in South America challenged, given that as a result of Spanish colonialism, 86% of Argen-
tina’s population is of European descent. Perhaps it is rather that Mr Timerman believes that Britain’s claim to the islands is invalid because they were not the first European power to land on the Islands. If he were to employ such a logic then the islands would rightly belong to the French, as it was they who in 1764 established the Colony of Port St.Louis in East Falkland. Even the term Las Malvinas, so infused with nationalist sentiment and insisted upon by the Argentinian administration finds its origin in the original French name for the islands Les Îles Malouines. As is the case in the Israel Palestine conflict, history is being evoked to justify political positions. In a lecture to students of the Central European University in Budapest in 1993 the late Eric Hobsbawm told students that often ‘historians find themselves in the unexpected role of political actors’. In the cold war of rhetoric that is being waged over the Falkland islands it is rather the political actors, such as Héctor Timmerman, who are unexpectedly trying to take on the role of historian. The effect of this turn of events is an amateurish stab at justifying Argentina’s increasingly desperate position on the status of the islands.
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The Anatomy of Autonomy
PART III: SECURITY AND DEFENCE
YOUR WEE BIT HILL AND GLEN
Unionists and nationalists argue their cases for the future of Scotland’s defence
Ministry of Defence
Humza Yousaf
Scottish National Party The foreign, defence and security
policies that an independent Scotland would pursue are a subject of interest not just to those who, like many students in Scotland, will vote in next year’s referendum, but to our neighbours and friends around the world. Scotland is recognised as a country with a strong and enduring commitment to democracy, the rule of law and fundamental human rights. Under devolution our involvement in international development and climate justice has demonstrated the kind of ambitions the Scottish Parliament has and the role many of us see Scotland playing in the world, yet with independence our roles and responsibilities would reach much further than they do now. For many people in Scotland, myself included, the decisions taken by the UK on defence and security are one of the reasons we favour independence. It’s a decade since hundreds of thousands of Scots marched against the war in Iraq. A war that the UK entered without the intelligence to back up its claims of weapons of mass destruction. Scots clearly opposed entry into the Iraq war but without the powers to make our own decisions we were left looking on as the UK government acted in our name. One option under independence would be to enshrine in a written constitution the grounds on which Scotland’s defence forces could enter overseas action. Similarly whilst the UK prioritises spending on nuclear weapons with independence Scotland would secure the powers to remove from our nation both the financial cost – estimated to the Scottish taxpayer at around £163 million each year
– and the moral burden of Trident nuclear weapons. Scotland could realise the opportunities that cancelling Trident would bring, by developing Faslane into a conventional naval base and by investing in the conventional defence forces, public services, jobs and infrastructure projects that a progressive and socially just Scotland would need. As with any independent state, Scotland would need to secure our borders, land, airspace and sea, deter attacks and protect our citizens and assets. We will protect our wider national interests and economic well-being, alongside promoting the key values and underlying principles that support Scottish society and our way of life. We would maintain strong links with the rest of the UK, with Ireland and our closest neighbours, reflecting our cultural history and family ties, our shared interests in trade and security. But an independent Scotland would make defence and security decisions in line with the values and interests of its people, and would take its international defence and security responsibilities seriously, working together with allies and partners through bilateral relations and key international institutions. Our international engagement could be an opportunity to increase respect and understanding in relation to human rights worldwide, and to advocate socially just foreign, defence and security policies. Work on defence and security in an independent Scotland is being taken to develop responses and a model for defence and security functions that would meet the needs of Scotland in the 21st century. The Scottish Government will publish a series of papers, covering the main arguments for independence, leading to the publication of a White Paper this autumn that will set out the government’s proposals for an independent Scotland. Humza Yousaf is the Scottish Government’s minister for external affairs.
Willie Rennie
Scottish Liberal Democrats “We want peace. We want a peace
which will be just, but not vindictive… Above all, we want to protect the future against a repetition of the horrors of this war…” Speaking to the Commons before he left for the Paris Peace Conference in 1919 Lloyd George sold the virtues of global unity to MPs, many of whom had cut their teeth in the days of Splendid Isolation. Four years of war across and between Europe, across the Aisne, on the shores of the Gallipollo Peninsula, and to the Dalmatian coast had made clear that John Donne was right when he proclaimed no man is an island entire of itself. It was this new understanding of interdependency in a shrinking world that put the UK on a path which would see it become a founding member of the League of Nations and onto a permanent seat of the United Nations Security Council. It’s the same path that led to the United Kingdom becoming a senior member of Nato and a member of the G8 and the G20. It is a path of achieving power and of understanding of how to use that clout responsibly. Each nation within the UK has helped shape its journey. Each nation benefits from working closely together in pursuit of common values and aspirations. As part of the UK, Scotland benefits from a comprehensive military defence system that ensured the UK’s safe passage throughout the turbulent 19th and 20th centuries. It was our soldiers in the Black Watch who spearheaded the invasion of Sicily in July 1943, secur-
ing the first Allied return to Europe. It was our soil on the banks of the Clyde and under the runways at Lossiemouth which gave security to our partnership of nations during Khrushchev’s and Brezhnev’s grip over the Eastern bloc. In more recent and testing times, it was a Scot who bankrolled the contentious war in Iraq. Gordon Brown. The nationalists blame the rest of the UK for all of our ills but gloss over Scotland’s role and the role of Scots in those bad decisions. It was a Scot, Alex Salmond, who wanted to leave the Kosovans high and dry in their hour of need. It was the Scottish Parliament which gave a further stamp of approval to the Iraq war. For good and for bad, Scots have stood together with the rest of the UK. In addition to our security, which employs thousands in Scotland, the UK uses its clout in the world to secure peace against the conflicts of tomorrow. The advancement of climate change and a population which doubled to over six billion people in the last thirty years of the 20th century will pose tremendous challenges to our food and natural resources. With our influential seat at the UN we have lead the way on efforts to reduce the impact of climate change in developing countries, bringing order and making progress at the Cancun climate change conference and providing £2.9 billion through the international change fund. Bolstered by the world’s biggest diplomatic network, it is Scots in East Kilbride working in the Department for International Development who deliver that aid budget and steer change which saves lives. Scotland benefits from being part of the United Kingdom and the United Kingdom benefits Scotland being within it. Nearly 100 years on from the Paris Peace Conference, the same partnership of nations which steered through wars over centuries across the world received
THIS WEEK WE TURN OUR ATTENTION TO THE DELICATE ISSUE OF SECURITY AND DEFENCE. AS WITH MANY OTHER DIMENSIONS OF THE INDEPENDENCE DEBATE WE BELIEVE THAT THE VOTERS MUST BE EQUIPPED WITH THE BASIC KNOWLEDGE ON THE FUTURE OF THE DEFENCE OF SCOTLAND BEFORE THEY VOTE IN THE REFERENDUM. WE HAVE TRIED TO DIVERT THE FOCUS FROM THE DOMINANT DISCUSSION ON NUCLEAR DISARMAMENT IN FAVOUR OF OTHER CONSIDERATIONS. THE SCOTTISH CAMPAIGN FOR NUCLEAR DISARMAMENT (SCND), IS PUSHING FORWARD THE IDEA THAT IF AN INDEPENDENT SCOTLAND SAYS NO TO TRIDENTS, THE REST OF THE UK WOULD ALSO BE DEPRIVED OF A NUCLEAR DETERRENT FOR AT LEAST 15-20 YEARS, GIVEN THAT THE UK WOULD BE UNABLE TO STATION NUCLEAR SUBMARINES ELSEWHERE IN THE ISLAND. WHILE WE RECOGNISE THIS ASPECT OF THE DISCUSSION AND RESPECT THE EFFORTS OF THE SCND WE DO NOT BELIEVE THAT THERE IS SUFFICIENT INFORMATION TO SPECULATE ON SUCH AN ISSUE. IF AND WHEN THE UK GOVERNMENT LAUNCHES AN OFFICIAL REPORT ON THE ISSUE WE WILL REPORT AND COMMENT. ON THIS PAGE, MR WILLIE RENNIE, CHAIRMAN OF THE SCOTTISH LIBERAL DEMOCRATS AND MR HUMZA YOUSUF, MINISTER FOR EXTERNAL AFFAIRS IN THE SCOTTISH GOVERNMENT, ARGUE WHETHER SCOTTISH SECURITY AND DEFENCE WOULD BE BETTER LOOKED AFTER AS PART OF THE UK OR UNDER AN INDEPENDENT SCOTLAND. OFFERING AN EXPERT OPINION, MR STUART CRAWFORD, WHO SERVED AS AN ARMY OFFICER FOR OVER 20 YEARS BEFORE BECOMING A DEFENCE CONSULTANT, ANALYSES THE FUTURE OF AN INDEPENDENT DEFENCE FORCE IN SCOTLAND AND HOW FEASIBLE IT WILL BE FOR IT TO CARRY OUT THE CRUCIAL TASKS OF A NATIONAL ARMY. a Nobel Peace Prize as part of the European Working IN Union. FIGURES / together at home and in the world has brought us stability and protected us when enemies took on different guises as broad ideological
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Military personnel in Scotland.
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Scottish regiments in the Army.
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Soldiers from Scottish regiments killed in Iraq and Afghanistan since 2001 — 6.6% of the total British death toll.
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Percentage of the MoD’s total land holdings located in Scotland. groups rather than states. As part of the UK, Scotland can ensure that we use our clout responsibly and as a force for good. On climate change, intervening in international conflict when we can’t just stand aside, and with international aid saving the lives of millions of children and educating more, the United Kingdom will continue to lead the way to guarantee some shelter against the uncertainties of tomorrow. With Scotland driving that force, we can look towards a closer and more stable world and not back to Splendid Isolation. Willie Rennie is the leader of the Scottish Liberal Democrats.
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NEXT ISSUE (out Wednesday 6 March): SOCIAL POLICY
THE DEFENCE OF THE REALM
A former army officer and defence expert explores the shape a Scottish Defence Force might take
Stuart Crawford Defence consultant
The looming Scottish independ-
ence referendum throws up a number of interesting questions: one of the most interesting is whether Scotland could run its own defence forces if it were an independent state. To answer that we have to start at the beginning, and ask ourselves what defence forces are actually for. Conventional wisdom is that they have two main functions; to defend the state and its national interests against external aggression, and, less popular in these politically correct times, to preserve the democratically elected government of the day against undemocratic internal subversion, attack, and insurrection. Aside from these two main functions, all other military commitments are a matter of choice. This is where foreign policy plays its part. Here we have to take an educated guess, for there is no statement of foreign policy of an independent Scotland for obvious reasons. So let’s just assume that there would be no hankering after our shared Imperial past, and we would be happy to relinquish any residual ambitions to be a global player and be content with a European regional focus. That’s not to say that Scotland might not choose to contribute to world military affairs, but almost certainly not on its own. And it would need to be able to have some sort of mechanism for extracting Scottish nationals from various places around the world if things turned nasty. But, again, not necessarily on its own. So, for argument’s sake, let’s assume that
an independent Scotland would adopt a Eurocentric defence posture with the facility to influence global events in conjunction with others, if it so chose. So, how would we design our armed forces to suit? Well, we can say pretty confidently that there would be no place for Trident, or our ‘share’ of it; there’s no appetite in Scotland for it, and arguably the UK’s ‘independent nuclear deterrent’ is neither independent, as it could never be used without US approval, nor a deterrent (who seriously believes it would be used against them? The Taliban? I don’t think so.) Then we have to consider what we are actually defending, apart from our people, Scotland’s most precious asset. What do we have that other people might want, or seek to disrupt, disable or destroy? This is a bit of an academic exercise because, aside from the normal small-scale terrorist threat of the likes of Al Quaeda and dissident Irish groups, plus the outside chance that organised crime might up its game several notches, there is no real credible military threat to Scotland. We have only a few strategic assets that might be coveted by hostile nations. Our energy sources are the obvious one, perhaps, comprising the oil and gas fields offshore and the refining facility at Grangemouth. Then there are the fishing grounds, which have been fought over before. Also, I suppose, we should include the last vestiges of the shipbuilding industry on the Clyde and Forth, plus some of the electronic manufacturing plants in the central belt. But that’s about it. Our whisky and tourism industries may be major revenue earners and have a worldwide reputation, but nobody’s going to invade Scotland to take them over. Similarly, that new panacea for all
‘We have to consider what we are actually defending, apart from our people, Scotland’s most precious asset... aside from the normal small-scale terrorist threat, there is no real credible military threat to Scotland.’ Scotland’s economic woes, the renewables sector, is hardly at risk; I can’t see anyone trying to capture any offshore wind farms, can you? What Scotland does have, though, is an important geopolitical position which influences regional and global communications. The country is well placed to influence sea routes through the North Sea, the Irish Sea, and the North Atlantic. It also sits under transatlantic air routes, as the Lockerbie bomb sadly illustrated. Our communications — electronic communications included — are important for the wellbeing of the population and our economic and social survival, and accordingly would require a military capacity to protect them. Taking all of this together, it’s likely that any independent Scottish Defence Force (SDF) would encompass naval, air, and ground forces. The Scottish
Navy would be required to protect the fishing, oil and gas fields, keep the sea routes open, and be able to counter any small to medium scale seaborne threats like inquisitive submarines and spy ships. It might also be required to be involved in extraction of Scottish nationals in peril overseas, but not necessarily without help from others. The scale of naval forces required depends very much on the politics and economics of the day. There would be no need for anything as sophisticated as an aircraft carrier, for example. Two or three frigates, a handful of fishery and coastal protection vessels, and some minesweepers might fit the bill; Faslane and Rosyth are obvious bases. As for air assets, there would be no need for anything as sophisticated as the RAF’s Typhoon fighter. An independent Scotland would require no more than a squadron’s worth of Hawk trainers or F-16 type fighters for its air defence/strike requirements, depending on budget. Helicopters and transport aircraft would be important, as would air/sea rescue helicopters. Leuchars and Lossiemouth are exisiting bases, and civilian airports could also be used. The army has long been Scotland’s most recognisible military asset, most noticeably the Royal Regiment of Scotland (RRS), which boasts 5 regular battalions. Whether all of them would be needed is a moot point. Possibly a future Scottish army might be based on two light brigades, perhaps one regular and one part-time, and comprise, with HQ and supporting person-
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nel, roughly 10,000 soldiers overall. Permanently stationed in Scotland, they would be deployable overseas and available to assist domestically if and when necessary. Barracks in Edinburgh and elsewhere offer plenty of accommodation. An independent Scotland would therefore most likely have modest defence forces. However, they would be more appropriate for a small, modern nation on the edge of Europe in the 21st century. The big question is could Scotland afford even these modest resources? The recent Royal United Services Institute report ‘A’ The Blue Bonnets’, of which I am coauthor, estimates an annual defence budget of £1.84bn per annum. The SNP has said £2.5bn will be their defence budget, so it seems affordable. I have little doubt that an independent Scotland could fund, raise, train, resource and deploy its own credible armed forces. Such forces would be modest in comparison to some, and have a regional as opposed to global focus. Whether the political will exists to go down this path, or whether even the most diehard nationalists now see the wisdom in participating in a UK-wide defence structure, remains to be seen. Stuart Crawford is a former lieutenant colonel in the British Army, who now works as a defence consultant and commentator. He is a former member of and party parliamentary candidate for the Scottish National Party.
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Throughout Summerhall, thirty-three large specially designed vitrines showcase the fascinating work of British Theatre designers on their creation of famous productions.Es Devlin’s stage and set designs for Lady Gaga’s Monster Ball World Tour are here, as are Antony Gormley’s more sparse settings for the Sadler’s Wells ballet, Sutra. Joanna Scotcher’s reworking of the much loved Christmas classic film, The Railway Children, for Waterloo Station Theatre reminds one of a heroic and simpler past while Connor Murphy’s minimalist opera design for The Magic Flute, which bewildered South Korean audiences, can be mused over. Warhorse and Billy Budd are also shown here with original models, drawings and video clips from the shows.
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‘Bug-chasing’: giving the gift of HIV Exploring the shocking case of those breaking one of the final sexual taboos: the deliberate transmission of HIV Simon Thornton Staff writer
Claimed to be the ultimate sexual
taboo by those who practice it, ‘bug-chasing’ is the pursuit of sex with individuals infected with the HIV virus. This sinister act is well-known within the gay population however it is still only a very small minority who seek it out, Unprotected sex is nothing new in the gay population, or for any other sexuality, yet while ‘bugchasing’ is often aligned with bare-backing (sex without a condom) the actual philosophy behind it is a lot darker. A so-called ‘bug-chaser’ will purposefully select a sexual partner who is HIV positive — also known as ‘Gift-givers’ — with the hope of becoming infected themselves and receiving the ‘gift’ of HIV. I’m sure many of you can’t get your head around this notion: why would anybody want to be infected with this toxic virus and condemn themselves to a life of pill-taking, blood-tests, hospital visits, the near-certain inevitably of AIDS and, in most cases, death as a result? Whilst HIV is not the death sentence it once was, living with the disease is hardly a life one would select out of choice. Yet there are many reasons why people chase the ‘bug’. The darkest reason being that it is a form of selfharm which leads to a prolonged suicide. However, the most popular motive stems, paradoxically, from the paranoia of HIV that looms over some gay men throughout their lives. Since the AIDS crisis of the 1980s, the gay community has been constantly warned about the possibility and probability of contracting HIV through unprotected sex. Yet even when one in engages
in safe sex, there is still that distant fear that you are still being put at risk; using condoms does not ensure 100 per cent complete protection, especially if you do not know your partner’s history. Subsequently, many gay men believe catching HIV prevents a life of constant paranoia, as they follow the mantra that if they are going to get it eventually, then why not beat it to the chase? This strategic approach to the phenomenon is even more shocking as the vast majority of gay men live without ever contracting HIV and lead healthy lives without having to abstain from sex. For some ‘bug-chasers’, it is the excitement and fantasy of perhaps becoming infected that turns them on; a kind of fetish. The idea of having unprotected sex with someone, and maybe or maybe not becoming infected, provides these people with a great rush, like a game of Russian roulette: they seek the thrill of taking a risk. To fulfil their bug-chasing fantasies, many people go to ‘conversion parties’. Usually these events involve having a mixture of HIV positive and negative men engage in unprotected sex with whoever comes along. No one knows anyone’s HIV status and thus, whether they have become infected or not. Otherwise, in our technological age, it is to the internet that people turn to in order to satisfy their bug-chasing fantasy. Gay dating and hook-up sites, or smart-phone applications such as Gaydar and GrindR, make the possibility of meeting up for sex a lot more realistic and therefore make it much easier for bug-chasers to find HIV positive men willing to sleep with them. However the advent of hook-ups has recently seen extremely worrying consequences. In October 2012, Canadian
RABBITING ON In a world not far from here, there lived a group of rabbits, rabbits who without question had the fluffiest and bushiest of all the rabbit tails you ever did see. The rabbits lived harmoniously regardless of religion, gender or ethnicity…apart from the hares, you see no one liked the hares and they weren’t really rabbits anyway. Sorry, I digress. These rabbits were happy enough in their little warrens, going about their daily business with a gay abandon that only having floppy ears could do to a species. For the most part the big question about where they went after they’d eaten their last carrot was a thought far from their mind. However for some, it was a calling, which derived from their relationship with the big bunny in the sky. This all powerful, all seeing, immortal rabbit, would it was claimed, decide
what happened to the poor mortal rabbits when they kicked the bucket. Unfortunately for the rabbit society, they couldn’t quite decide which religion the big almighty rabbit belonged to and thus which religion they should follow to ensure a happy bunny in the afterlife. This occasionally caused disagreements and disputes, which would result in massive problems for all members of the rabbit society, secular and non-secular. Unfortunately none of the rabbits ever stopped to think that the problems caused by the concept of the big bunny in the sky might cause more trouble than it was worth. Sorry, that isn’t part of the story either. So there was one selection of rabbits who had an ordained leader, chosen it was said by the Almighty rabbit,
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Steven Paul Boone, who was HIV positive, stood trial and was found guilty of deliberately infecting someone with HIV and subsequently attempted murder for having unprotected sex with his partners; many of whom he found through online chat-rooms. Boone claimed he was fulfilling the fantasy of his ‘victims’ who desired to become infected. However, it was revealed that Boone actually coerced his victims, horrifyingly including many teenagers, through a web of lies and deceit. He lied about his HIV positive status and, in some cases, told the people he had sex with that condoms caused cancer. The case of Steven Boone caused controversy throughout the gay community.
It raised the question about the privacy and disclosure of one’s HIV status, as Boone was publicly outed by the police in the name of public health. However, this case highlights an even more dangerous and threatening aspect of ‘bug-chasing’. People could be using the notion of ‘bug-chasing’ as a means of deceiving or brain-washing individuals into wanting to become HIV positive, especially naive young gay men, through the internet and chat-rooms for their own twisted fantasies. It is extremely difficult to fully understand and hypothesise the advent of ‘bugchasing’. Perhaps it is the fact that HIV isn’t the death sentence it once was, as we’re often told these days, that makes the idea of contracting the virus a veri-
table sexual thrill. However for many ‘bug-chasers’ out there who have been given the ‘gift’, I wonder how many have realised that the life they chose wasn’t the life they had expected it be. HIV is indeed not a death sentence anymore, but it is certainly a life sentence. Editor’s note: There is some debate surrounding the veracity of the claims of gift givers and bug chasers. A programme made by the BBC in 2006 suggested that much of the information with regards to ‘conversion parties’ was unverifiable, whilst the major AIDS charities within the UK claim that those interested in the pursuit of bug chasing, represented a very small minority of the HIV + population.
In today’s fairy-tale, lend an ear to the cautionary tale of the rabbit who thought he could speak to the Great Hare in the Sky to perform his duties and preach his teachings and ensure they followed the right path. To the other rabbits, this leader was pretty inconsequential. He spoke a funny language no-one understood. Lived in a very small hole inside another larger warren that people didn’t really know existed. He had a rather eccentric selection of bunny hats and took part in ceremonies. However, occasionally his presence became more apparent. Usually when the leader died and a new one appeared, or occasionally when a massive criminal scandal involving a fair few of the bunnies under the leader’s stewardship became apparent. Sometimes the lead bunny would be implicated in a scandal, however because he was seen as being the chosen one, he was immune from prosecution. Some rabbits questioned
whether this immunity was fair especially considering the immense power the lead bunny had over his followers and indeed because no one knew whether or not the lead bunny had actually been chosen by the big bunny in the sky. Now on this one occasion, instead of dying and being replaced, the lead bunny decided he had grown tired of wearing the hats and making the speeches and decided to stop being the lead bunny. Some rabbits assumed this would mean that he would lose his immunity, after all he would no longer be the chosen one. They believed that this might mean he could have to answer questions about the scandal and perhaps prove his innocence
in connection to the evidence against him. They were wrong. The lead rabbit remained within the rabbit hole, above the law and separated away from the rest of the rabbit society. He never had to answer to any other rabbit ever again.
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ARTS&ENTS ARTS Auden: Rake, Radical and Librettist
The Journal takes a look at The Rake’s Progress and calls for a re-evaluation of W.H. Auden as a fusty traditionalist John Hewitt Jones Literary editor Following the terrorist attacks of 9/11, American newspapers and cable news networks were quick to band about the saccharine sound byte ‘Those to whom evil is done/ do evil in return.’ It’s a quotation taken from ‘September 1, 1939’; one of Auden’s most well-known poems written just a few days after the start of the Second World War, during his first sojourn to America. The recurrence of this phrase as a stock truism is something that the writer would have grossly objected to. He so much regretted penning this phrase in fact, that in the 1945 edition of his collected poems, the verse doesn’t appear at all. It’s aphoristic quotations like this that anyone who’s encountered Auden before will be most familiar with. Notably, perhaps, his poem ‘Night Mail’ (‘This
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is the Night Mail crossing the border…’) written to accompany a propaganda film made by the General Post Office film unit. Much of the author’s work, at a first glance, has an accessibility and memorability that’s contributed to the conception of the author as a quaint, fusty pillar of the British literary establishment. But that’s not really what Auden’s about. In fact he is an author who is as radical as T.S. Eliot or Samuel Beckett. Rather than creating meaning by pushing language to the point of dissolution, Auden’s poetry and prose subverts from the inside. Much of his work pokes fun at traditional forms by reinventing conventional conceits. And it’s for this reason that his writing is often dubbed ‘postmodern’. There’s no better example of this than his opera written in collaboration with Igor Stravinsky, The Rake’s Progress, which takes the Faustian tradition and turns it upside down. The Rake’s Progress is a tale of damnation and disappointed love. An eligible young bachelor is lured to London, away from his bride-to-be, Anne, after a servant brings news of an inheritance that’s been left him by a dead uncle. Having led his young master astray, the servant reveals himself to be the devil, and attempts to take Rakewell’s soul before cursing him, leaving him insane. The thing about this work is that Auden cleverly puts everything together the wrong way around. Anne’s father isn’t a domineering figure like Egius or Polonius which Shakespearian drama has set us up to expect, but instead seems quite content for Tom Rakewell to marry his daughter. His declaration that she may marry a poor husband, ‘but will never marry a lazy one’ seems both tragic and prescient as the narrative unfolds. The treatment of such heavy subject matter by both author and composer is surprisingly light-hearted. There are moments of intense tragedy — especially poignant is the penultimate scene, in which the mad Rakewell sings an aria, imagining himself to be Adonis and Anne to be Venus. But even these classical allusions are framed in such a way that parodies the melodrama; the opera ends with a crass quartet warning the audience of the dangers of behaving immorally. Such a tacked-on, moralising conclusion is discomforting to watch, as it doesn’t appear to relate to the emotional content of the preceding action onstage. This work is a union of two art forms pulling in exactly the same direction. At a first glance, Auden’s plot structure would appear to lend itself well to the structure of typical Shakespearean comedy; young love struggling against extraneous social pressures, eventually to prevail in the end. However, The Rake’s Progress presents the audience with a complete inversion of this. What appears as idyllic love at the beginning of the work rapidly unravels, reaching a denouement as the anti-hero ends up marrying Baba
the Turk; a creature to whom he has no emotional connection and who certainly won’t end up bringing him salvation. Just like the libretto, Stravinsky’s music has a surprisingly vacillatory structure. It’s written in a disquieting neoclassical idiom that jumps between simplistic, classical phrases, such as the brassy opening prologue in E major, to the dark orchestral interlude of the graveyard scene of act three, which consists of musical phrases with harmonic structures dark enough that they could be taken from a piece of Strauss or early Schoenberg. Post-modernist, neoclassical, whatever you want to call it; both artists write in forms that re-invent conventional modes of expression. Stravinsky had the idea for the opera in the late forties, after seeing William Hogarth’s series of paintings A Rake’s Progress which tell the story of the life of a young man who follows a path of immorality and self-destruction after inheriting a fortune from his father. Aldous Huxley encouraged the composer to approach Auden for the libretto; an unusual choice for Stravinsky, who was notoriously serious and had a particular admiration for T.S. Eliot. Preliminary discussions, however, showed that the writer and composer would get on extremely well, and the entire structure of the work was plotted within a week. Auden would collaborate on the libretto with his close friend and long-term lover, Chester Kallman, a talented writer and musician who he had met in Brooklyn in 1939. Rakewell is an extremely complex character. At his core lies an innocence that preserves his resolve to begin again each time he falls into the traps laid for him by the servant, Nick Shadow, who pledges his service to him. Auden was an avid reader of both Freud and Jung (his interest in literature originally having been started by the hours spent reading psychology books in his father’s library as a young boy), and the devil-figure of Shadow is highly suggestive of the Jungian ‘shadow’ or ‘lame shadow’; the form of the alter ego that represents all a character’s inferior qualities manifested by the uncontrolled emotions. Just like Auden, Stravinsky uses a style that’s largely tonal, eschewing the breakdown of tonality that occurred in classical music at the beginning of the twentieth century. This opera employs segments of a simplistic, classical sound world that’s disquieting because of the strange context in which its employed. This is exactly what Auden achieves in much of his literary output, and refutes the label of ‘traditionalist’ that’s often assigned to him. He is marked out by an uncanny ability to wrench tropes and linguistic structures out of their conventional context to create new structures that are often rich in rhyme and complex in allusion.
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Professor Susan Manning (1953-2013): A kind friend and uniquely gifted scholar A colleague mourns the passing of the literary scholar and director of the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities at Edinburgh University Dr Andrew Taylor University of Edinburgh
The announcement of Profes-
sor Susan Manning’s passing came as a shock to all those who knew her, and the tributes left on the university’s webpage are a testament to the esteem in which she was held, not just in Edinburgh but around the world. I first met Susan almost 20 years ago when I was a graduate student in Cambridge. She was fiercely intelligent, with a wealth of reading at her disposal, yet at the same time generous with her time and curious about other people’s work. Those qualities of personal and intellectual curiosity characterised her as an academic and as a friend. In an environment that could be intimidating, Susan was a welcome
blast of normality, able to combine a successful career and a life outside of the university that mattered just as much as her teaching and research. As a model for a well-balanced academic, she could not be bettered. In 1999, Susan was appointed to the Grierson Chair in English Literature at Edinburgh, and the Manning family transplanted themselves north of the border to make a new life in Scotland, the country of her birth. I followed in 2002, happy to renew my ties with her. I listened to Susan give a number of talks and seminar papers over the years, and what struck me most forcibly was her ability to find affiliations across and between different writers and national literatures. Her perspective was both historically deep and geographically wide, and this made for some thrilling and unexpected readings. While, like most academics, she had an area of expertise — broadly late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Scottish and US literature — she
also had the enviable ability to bring that expertise to bear on a wide range of subjects and disciplines, to create an environment of intellectual conversation that was the epitome of those principles of the Scottish enlightenment — civility, openness, diversity — that she held so dear. Her books, The Puritan-Provincial Vision (1990), Fragments of Union (2002), and The Poetics of Character (forthcoming later this year) are written in the belief that ideas circulate; they travel to take new forms and enact new possibilities. Susan’s entire career was built on fostering the conditions in which these kinds of exchange are possible — whether with students in the classroom or as director of the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities at Edinburgh, a vibrant home under her stewardship for intellectual debate. Books, and the ideas in them, mattered to Susan. They were, for her, the means by which we are able to reflect, self-consciously, on our condi-
Books agenda THE HEART BROKE IN James Meek (Canongate Books, £17.99)
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With fashion month now in full swing, the international press are gathering for London Fashion Week (LFW) where leading designers are showcasing their autumn/winter 2013-14 collections. For the first time in years, Scottish designers are arguably the main attraction, with Christopher Kane and Jonathan Saunders hosting the most highly anticipated shows and leading the resurgence of Caledonian cool. Heritage brand Pringle of Scotland has made the unusual decision to show their latest collection at LFW in a presentation format, rather than a more conventional fashion show. Although Pringle hosted a successful presentation to showcase their spring/summer 2013 collection, it does seem an odd move for such a large and internationally-respected brand to choose the intimate setup generally favoured by up-and-coming designers. However, in some ways it is a brave decision, as it allows the entire collection to be more closely scrutinised by the gathered press. As well as showcasing her latest collection, Scottish designer Louise Gray has also collaborated exclusively with Triumph lingerie for LFW. Triumph approached Gray to design a custom piece for their LFW exhibition, and she readily agreed. Talking of the collaboration, Gray explained, “I have brought all these elements from my main collection to the
lingerie to create something with interesting texture and pattern. It’s definitely a Louise Gray piece.” Alongside the established designers, three emerging fashion design stars are jointly exhibiting their work from 10-25 February at a Scottish luxury brand showroom they have opened in London’s Hardy Tree Gallery. Belinda Robertson Cashmere, Bebaroque, and Iona Crawford are all showcasing their latest collections in the shared space. Speaking exclusively to The Journal, Crawford explains that “since launching our showroom earlier this week, we have seen an excellent response to the autumn/ winter 2013-14 collections being shown by Bebaroque, Belinda Robertson and myself. A fabulous mix of both international and national buyers and press have visited the showroom, as well agents representing an array of performing artists, private clients and London-based celebrities. “The location of our showroom within the Hardy Tree Gallery on Pancras Road... makes us perfectly situated for visitors passing through central London. As London Fashion Week gets under way today, we anticipate an extremely busy weekend and continued interest in each of the exhibiting collections. Thereafter, Bebaroque are headed to show at Premiere Classe in Paris, while my brand prepares for international business trips to Beijing and New York.” For more from LFW, log on to www. journal-online.co.uk
Hitting the shelves last August, James Meek’s latest novel centres on the strained bond between siblings at a time of crisis. With a narrative reminiscent of the recent Jimmy Savile abuse revelations, a philandering TV producer finds his indiscretions beginning to catch up with him as he’s threatened with exposure for having an affair with a minor. His sister, Bec, is a malaria researcher who makes a revolutionary breakthrough and breaks her engagement to a powerful newspaper editor who believes in the power of the press to champion conservaTHE HOROLOGICON Mark Forsyth (Icon Books, £12.99)
Of the list of useless books to have
on your shelf, The Horologicon should be at the very top. It’s a scintillating exploration of language, sallying through an eclectic variety of words in the order that you might use them during the day. Who would have guessed that ‘ante-jentcular’ means ‘pre-breakfast’, or indeed that the verb ‘to feague’ refers to the insertion of ginger into a horse’s nether regions? As it’s probably clear, these aren’t quotidian terms of phrase. They’re ‘lost words’; words that have long disappeared from mainstream vocabulary. Forsyth’s entertaining examples come from lesser-known dictionaries such as The Dictionary of Obsolete and Provin-
tion. They provoke, they enrage, they seduce, they convince, they make us feel. In a university culture where the phrase ‘transferrable skills’ is, quite justifiably, common currency, this more fundamental sense of why English literature matters can get forgotten. Susan reminded us of it. At her funeral, one of Susan’s daughters read Emily Dickinson’s poem ‘There’s a certain slant of light’, a beautiful meditation on how words compel us to acts of interpretation, but at the same time continually thwart our efforts at understanding. ‘We can find no scar/But internal difference/Where
the Meanings, are’, says Dickinson. Susan’s writing built on, and delighted in, this paradox. Her loss — too soon, too young — has reverberated through our subject. It is felt most acutely, of course, by her family. In time, the knowledge that Susan inspired generations of students and academics may be a consolation. But I suspect not yet. Dr Andrew Taylor is senior lecturer in English Literature at the University of Edinburgh. He was co-editor with Prof Manning of The Edinburgh Series in Transatlantic Literatures.
by Jon Vrushi & Vivek Santayana tive values. The editor blackmails Bec and her brother, forcing the siblings to choose between their desires and their loyalty to each other. At a first glance, this appears to be a conservative family tale in which characters who are seduced or blackmailed into monogamy and extramarital affairs are punished with devastating cruelty. However, this is a book that doesn’t just revolve around questions of sexual and emotional dysfunction, but incorporates a number of intricate subplots that depict pertinent moral questions relating to medical ethics and journalistic practice. Meek’s contorted take on the conventional family saga places disorder at the heart of a thrilling plot that is obsessive in its detail. (VS) cial English, Captain Grose’s Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, The Abedecarium Anglico-Latinum and A Descriptive Dictionary and Atlas of Sexology. A witty style makes for a humorous treatment of what could ostensibly be a rather dry subject, although the reader would be well advised to take notice of the disclaimer in the introduction, suggesting that it’s not a title to be read cover to cover in one sitting. Given that the likelihood of anyone understanding these obsolete words is near-zero, it’s unlikely that the reader will use it as a reference book. But that’s what makes it such an excellent read. Word lovers will find it hard to put down this jaunt through lost words of the English language, and for the grammar pedant it will provide three hundred pages of unbridled joy. (JV)
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Dandy-licious return to form Our ECFS insider looks at the ‘neo-dandy’ Adam Brady
In recent years, there has been less lethargy in the male student community when it comes to dressing — much to the disappointment of The Journal column-
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ist Edinburgh Anonymous who recently rebuked the flouncy “fashionable types” who “want to be noticed” in their article ‘Hell is other people’. However, being noticed is now of utmost importance in this era of the all-seeing eye of social media.
It is now crucial to rise above the
crowd of our increasingly impressive peers, as the competitive nature of the world beyond university evokes dread and doom. However, because of this fear of the unknown future, students are increasingly returning to old identities and aesthetics, where success is proven, rather than risking potential failure with outlandish new styles. It is into this student world that the dandy has reappeared. The ‘neo-dandy’ is a revitalisation of the dandy, something that has clearly been tried and tested: successful in its heyday, it remains classic and has never gone out of style. In fact, dandyism is not a trend, as it is not fleeting: it has its foundations in integral parts of society that represent power and accomplishment. The continuing success of tailors on Savile Row or shoemakers in Mayfair speaks volumes about the modern gentleman’s aspirations; in times of financial worry (or in our case as students, the prospect of such worry), we try to emulate this successful image as a selfmotivational tool. The saying ‘Dress for the job you want, not the job you have’ definitely holds true. This increasing interest in dandyism is manifold in the UK: photographer Jonathan Daniel Pryce’s Tumblr project ‘100 beards, 100 days’ took off last summer, while a new quarterly magazine MAN recently released its first issue, helping to rekindle the flame of impeccable dandy dressing. The success of these projects and the fact that they hark back to classic ideas of masculinity is clearly representative of men’s desire to embrace the dandy style. Unlike this relatively new rise of the history-inspired ‘neo-dandy’, women’s fashion consistently draws upon the past, with previous decades being explored and revamped every few seasons. One theory for this is that women have always needed to assert themselves in the sociopolitical melée of a patriarchal world, and thus had more attention drawn to their outfits, perhaps disregarding more important aspects — intellect, for one. Women have been, and remain, fetishised by contemporary society; yet, as the growing obsession with men’s style shows, this is no longer exclusive to women. The modern man’s sartorial return to the former glory of dandyism shows his active desire to hold on to solely masculine symbols — moustaches, ties, suits, and overcoats — out of a growing anxiety of being watched and judged. This can be seen on a small scale within Edinburgh — with Ruffians barber’s recent success or Walker Slater’s men’s tailoring store being far more profitable than its corresponding women’s department — and on a global scale with international revenue for menswear now matching womenswear. The well-dressed gent should not be spurned.The sharpness and precision of his dress sense illustrates both the meticulousness of his nature and a selfrespecting awareness. Whatever motivates it, the dandy style remains classic — in fact, it may be just the key to being noticed for that graduate position.
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2013 Academy Awards: Roll out the red carpet This year’s Oscars race is the most open in recent memory
film Nathanael Smith Film editor
Many serious film fans look down on the Oscars, dismissing them as irrelevant and not representative of the quality of films in any given year. They have a point — the Academy is just one select group of (mostly old, white and male) industry insiders who arbitrarily decide to name some films as being better than others. The heavy weighting towards a certain kind of cinema – prestigious, American, emotionally manipulative —further shows that this only reflects a tiny portion of what film has to offer. Add to that a history of really bad decisions and the Oscars become increasingly unimportant. Yet every year, when awards season rolls round, the allure of red carpets and lengthy self-congratulatory ceremonies proves too strong for most. Speculation as to possible winners is rife, and there is always a latent fear that a rubbish film may just take it (a fear that was realised in 2005 when
Crash won Best Picture). It’s a night of pretty people and pretty dresses, and around three hours dedicated to talking about and celebrating cinema. However much people complain, we love it really. This year is no exception, and the buzz that builds up before the Oscars is even bigger this time as it is arguably the most open race in years. People with a fondness for betting on these awards have no idea where to begin. While Daniel Day Lewis (Lincoln) and Anne Hathaway (Les Miserables) have already cleared a space on their mantelpiece for their Best Actor and Best Supporting Actress statuettes respectively, other categories are far more hotly fought. Emmanuelle Riva’s shock win at the BAFTAs for Amour could see the 85-year-old French actress win again, ahead of favourites Jessica Chastain (Zero Dark Thirty) and Jennifer Lawrence (Silver Linings Playbook). Perhaps most unpredictable of all is Best Picture. Traditionally a film needs to also have Best Director and Best Editing nominations in order to win Best Picture, setting up Stephen Spielberg’s Lincoln to take the big prize. Yet Ben
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Affleck’s taut, Iran-set thriller Argo has won every other major award, making it favourite to win on the night even without a Director nomination for Affleck. Ang Lee and Michael Haneke, also, cannot be ruled out for Life of Pi and Amour. Plus, there is that horrible suspicion that the rather trite mental health comedy Silver Linings Playbook could come and sweep all the awards. So with such a difficult awards race to call, film fans around the country will inevitably be glued to their screens at 1am, watching a dodgy stream of E! online as they wait to see if their predictions are right, or whether their favourite film wins anything. For what it’s worth, this writer would love to see the unthinkable happen and for Benh Zeitlin’s magicalrealist fairy tale Beasts of the Southern Wild to win on the night. One final tip: for the risky gamblers it might be worth putting money on Fast and Furious 6 to win Best Picture next year. It’s a shoo-in. What are your Oscars predictions? Log on to Twitter or Facebook, or comment on the website, and let us know.
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No Claudia Marinaro
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It’s not often in Hollywood that films will get universally panned by the critics. You may get at least one or two a year, at the usual time of summer blockbuster season. But we’ve only passed one month of 2013 and the cinematic world has now borne witness to the year’s first almighty stinker in the form of Movie 43, an anthology comedy film with an all-star ensemble cast participating in a series of “side splitting” shorts. Yet Movie 43 is actually somewhat enjoyable. The film’s raunchy humour appeals directly to a young audience, who find this sort of comedy appealing. And with an all-star cast attached, it has the potential to guarantee big bucks. The humour works with several shorts, and does muster some amusement a number of times, even if it is often very cringeworthy to watch. The shorts have no connection to each other, and consist only of inappropriate sexual or toilet jokes in order to throw the target audience off their seats in waves of laughter and shock. Some shorts work and others don’t. A sketch with Liev Schreiber and Nicole Kidman was just perfect. It was
funny, bizarre and well written with a clear idea of their comedy and how they wanted it to be executed. Another one featuring Chloe Grace Moretz, while inappropriate in its story, was very amusing. A superhero sketch featuring Kristen Bell in a Supergirl costume was quite tame and slapstick in most respects, but it did have raunchy elements that were cheeky and audacious. But what was wrong? Why is there so much hate for this film? Perhaps because it relies on grotesque humour very much directed to a specific target audience: young people. This leaves adult audiences isolated by the fact that they won’t enjoy or even appreciate the humour the film offers. The film-makers should have tried more broad styles of comedy in order to lure older audiences to the film. Instead, they attempted to go a somewhat edgy and alternative direction, disgruntling the film community, making little money at the box office and earning critical displeasure. Movie 43 is an experience to watch. Whether it’s a good or bad experience is entirely up to you. Either way, be prepared for a film that will leave you with a very weird feeling.
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Chile, 1988. After 15 years of dictatorship, head of state General Augusto Pinochet is forced by international pressures to hold a plebiscite: the Chileans are called to vote on whether or not they want the dictator to be their president for eight more years. No focuses on the rival advertising campaigns designed by Pinochet’s men and by the
opposition, and on the repercussions they had on the country politics and on the lives of the advertisers involved. Based on an unpublished play by renowned Chilean novelist and dramatist Antonio Skármeta, this film brings together a number of themes and balances them out so that none overshadows the others: capitalism, politics, fatherhood, and love are equally important tesserae in this complex mosaic of a film. The thread uniting all the different aspects of the movie is the world of advertising, here shown in an unflattering light that could not be any farther from glamorous shows such as Mad Men. The realism of No is highlighted by the grainy and at times blurry, bad quality of the photography, chosen by director Pablo Larraín not only to replicate the style of late-eighties
Chilean television, but also in order to smoothly integrate footage from those years with his fictional story. In fact, it is not always clear whether some scenes are fictional or taken from documentaries of the time, which poignantly reflects Pinochet’s shady politics and the uncertainty and confusion of his regime. It is proudly different from glossy and hyper-dramatic European or North American movies. In its conscious choice of lowquality cameras and at-times poor editing, the film does not try to emulate the style of productions from countries with a better-established film industry. Its blend of seriousness and hilarity, some harrowing performances and its complex plot make No a unique film that well-deserves international recognition.
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ilous word. In the case of Timberyard, it constitutes axiomatic truth. To posit this paradox is not to toy precariously with hyperbole, but to delineate pre-
cisely what the Radfords have achieved. Timberyard isn’t merely a restaurant; it is an existential proposition of supracibarious holism. Every aspect has been assiduously curated into one seamless organic whole. From building restoration to restaurant service, each craftsman and supplier is known by face, name
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tered, bottled and carbonated onsite. A certain holistic, homely ease permeates the space. It breathes felicity. Timberyard’s creative processes too beat with the same concentric, wholesome rhythm. All butchery, smoking and drying are handled by the kitchen and nothing arrives ready-prepared. Come more clement months, a vegetable patch will provide herbs and salad crops. Even the barman’s wherewithal — his bottled syrups and purées glowing bejewelled on the countertop like fist-size ambers, agates and obsidians — are homemade. It is here we begin, with a cocktail. The crab apple fizz (£6.50) is a sprightly aperitif of purée topped up with sparkling wine — a sort of autumnal Bellini flecked with the breathy warmth of cinnamon. All-too-quaffable accompaniment to fireside menu-perusal, on which a brief note wouldn’t go amiss. Veering from the standard starter-mainpud triptych, dishes at Timberyard instead come in a sequential quartet of BITE, SMALL, LARGE and SWEET. Designed for diversity, each is neatly balanced in size and taste with the others. One leaves cosily full, not ballooned and bloated. The star bite, as it were, was that christened simply ‘air dried goose, pear’ (£4). Four miniature rashers arrived, thickish and aglow with a puce pro-
Gillian Achurch Art & Design editor The Economy: the word on everyone’s lips, topic of pub chat as much as academic debate, especially in the past five years. We know the power it has over all our career aspirations and lifestyles. But does the economy also control our relationships? Our childhoods and deaths? The way we have sex? This exhibition insists so. Since the fall of the Berlin Wall our relationship with the economy has undergone dramatic change and perhaps it, rather than culture, now controls our lives and forms our identities. Faced with this contemporary art is being forced to adapt. Economy is being held simultaneously at Edinburgh’s Stills Gallery and at CCA in Glasgow, in collaboration with the University of Edinburgh. Curators Angela Dimitrakaki and Kirsten Lloyd are respectively a lecturer and PhD candidate at the university, and this exhibition is the third in a series Lloyd has curated examining social documents. The rise of documentary modes in recent years reflects artists’ increasing desire to engage more deeply with their subject. This has led to what Lloyd declares is, “one of the most important shifts to happen for generations,” namely that with art increasingly operating on the level of life and current events, it is often “impossible actually to show the artwork in the gallery; what you’re showing is documentation.” This is evident in the work of over 40 artists on display across the two sites; a combination of video work, photographs, sculpture and documentary material. The use of both galleries was necessitated by the scope of the project and invigorated by the positive reactions from artists who were “without exception, really very, very keen to be involved in the project.” The two cities also offer contrasting backdrops for the consideration of the economy’s influence upon our lives. In Glasgow, rapid de-industrialisation had a huge impact on the population. In contrast Lloyd notes that Edinburgh is the home of finance, as referenced by the photograph of bankers which first confronts the visitor upon entering Stills. The curators were keen to emphasise that Economy refers to areas beyond
sciutto sheen, each crowned with a droplet of pear purée. The fresh sweetness of the fruit was the perfect foil to the smoky tang of the fowl. To follow, a Scottish modulation on steak tartare (£8.50): diced raw venison of the highest quality – clean and steely to the tongue – bound with egg-yolk and garnished by a nubbly scattering of toasted hazelnuts. Timberyard’s take on a perennial classic. At risk of slipping into lyrical cliché, the evening’s large course proved its highlight, a food-facsimile of the restaurant itself in which each carefully curated component cohered harmonically. The blood-dark, gamey, almost kidney-rich potency of the roast pigeon crown (£17.50) was echoed in the deep viridian irony tang of sautéed kale, while the silkiest of beetroot purées mirrored its magenta hue and daintily sweet nuances. Pudding was a triumph in sharpsweet contrast. A posset, jelly and sorbet of sea buckthorn — that coast-hugging shrub with clusters of little orange berries — were layered with a rhubarb compote and a dried translucent shard of the slender fruit. The perfect antidote, were one needed, to the richness of preceding dishes. Go as soon as you can. Your lives are incomplete without it. finance, including migration, sex, labour and notably the contemporary art world. The relationship between artist and patron is explored in works such as Andrea Fraser’s ‘Untitled,’ for which a male collector purchased video footage of his own sexual encounter with the artist. ‘We Love Candy But Our Passion is Collecting Art’ comprises interviews with wealthy children who collect art. This work’s juxtaposition with ‘Slaves,’ an animation about child slave labour in Sudan, vividly underlines the “gross inequality and horrific poverty” found under the current economic system, Lloyd notes, clarifying that “what we find abhorrent is the inequalities, rather than wealth itself.” A striking feature of the exhibition is the domination of female artists. Rather than a curatorial choice, this is a reflection of the fact that women often bear the deepest impacts of the economy and that “it’s women who actually plumb the depths of how the economy shapes our lives…they’re the ones who are making these really fascinating works about their sex lives and their relationship with the economy.” In ‘Loser,’ Estonian Kai Kaljo states her failure as both woman and artist, detailing her weight and meagre salary as an art lecturer. Alongside, Tracey Emin declares the choice she felt obliged to make between being a successful artist or an undervalued mother in her self-portrait, ‘I’ve got it all.’ Aware that Economy “has a very strong argument,” the curators were keen “to provide as many opportunities as possible for other people to be involved” and to share their perspectives. Hence an extensive series of accompanying events, as well as an open image archive and debates section on the website. The Austrian collective WochenKlausur is also participating in the exhibition, with a residency project working alongside the inhabitants of the Drumchapel area of Glasgow to set up an association aimed at improving their living standards, perhaps through a worker self-managed co-operative and making use of unfarmed land to grow produce. Thus Economy proposes through this and other works not only to explore our changing economic reality, but to look forward and ask, “is there any possibility for collective action in these circumstances?”
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From stable to shattered The Journal muses on the wider implications of Europe’s horsemeat scandal Mary Kinsella
Let’s stop horsing around. In an age when everything can be bought at one location, an age when the thinking process surrounding consumerism has concentrated focus on the final product rather than its origin and packaging, is it any wonder that this case of fraud has passed unnoticed for so long? Following the revelation of horsemeat found in beef products across the UK and EU, there has been considerable public outrage at this deception. Some, such as Environment Secretary Owen Paterson have even gone so far as to say that it is “as if an ‘extensive’ criminal conspiracy may have taken place.” Fraud, yes, but as a conspiracy, this scandal is more of a stand-up comedy than a Watergate. Within minutes of publicising the transgression, the horror was matched by an equal quantity of jokes, puns,
and sarcastic comments on various media websites. Compiled with the ongoing, constantly shifting blamegame among food production bigwigs such as Comigel and Spanghero, it is clear from this juxtaposition that the unsettling atmosphere that has now come to surround the food industry arises from outrage with the fiction, not the fact. After all, for the majority of carnivores, the difference between eating beef and eating horsemeat is minimal. They are both animals that provide food. Both are slaughtered, both are eaten. So why the outrage? Imagine coming home from a long day, ready to eat that all-familiar beef burger, lasagne, or bolognese, only to discover once your plate is clean that the beef you expected and believed you were eating had been adulterated with horsemeat without your knowledge? I, for one, would be furious. But not because there is horsemeat present.
Expectation and knowledge are very powerful, especially when personal choice is concerned. There is a blind trust that we give to those who provide us with food, giving them the benefit of the doubt and confidence in their delivery of the desired and specifically chosen life-sustaining meal. Therefore, the horsemeat scandal transcends itself, demonstrating to the public that their trust should not be given so easily. Consumers have become carefree, and food institutions such as Tesco and Findus have as well. This discovery is a wake-up call for all. The future’s main concern then is figuring out how to remedy this fracture in public trust. It is not as if the public has been told that their favourite pop singer lied about his or her name; rather, a component of our everyday survival has come into question. It will now be a race not only to fix the fraud but also to find something to make the public’s trust stable once again.
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Time to scale back the Gareth Bale terror-alert Tottenham’s hottest property can relax as British media seem determined to make his dreams come true Sean Gibson Editor-in-chief You don’t have to be an ardent Spurs fan to recognise that Gareth Bale is playing well at the moment – very well, in fact, with some cracking goals in recent weeks to complement his general good play. That’s about where the matter stops being remarkable, though, if you’re one of those who vainly tries to ground football matters in reality (are there any of us left out there?). Sky always presents a more vibrant perspective – and that’s fine; no-one minds a bit of indulgence in the sport they love. However, the recent build-up of Gareth Bale – a veritable superlatives-onslaught which has burst suspiciously from
nowhere – seems a desperate attempt to cure a transfer-window hangover with a lethal dose of ‘hair of the dog’. Let’s firstly calm down over the freekicks Bale has been sweeping home lately. Stoke’s Charlie Adam is a ‘free-kick specialist’. Remember Geovanni, at Hull a few years ago? He too was a taker of fine free-kicks. Plenty of duffers are set-piece specialists. Even the best aren’t in danger of signing for Real Madrid – how extensive a scout report do you think the Special One has on Everton’s Leighton Baines? The favourable comparisons with Cristiano Ronaldo do little more to convince of Bale’s stratospheric pretensions – and this from a writer who seeks to diminish the mercurial Portuguese’s hype at every opportunity. Bale is still only developing
OCEAN DWELLER
by Ruth Jeffery Milito under knife after bad injury
Ireland’s cricket team will
Internazionale forward Diego Milito underwent surgery
Grand Prix win for rapid Farah Mo Farah won the 3,000m at the
British Grand Prix in Birmingham last Saturday. In his debut race of 2013, the Olympic medallist achieved a time of 7.42 minutes and will go on to compete in the New Orleans marathon this month. He is then expected to compete in the half marathon in London. Britain’s Holly Bleasdale won the pole vault at the same event with a height of 4.70m, beating Cuban Olympic silver medallist Yarisley Silva. Bleasdale didn’t manage to get her hands on a medal during the Olympics, so she will be hoping to impress at the European Indoors Championships.
greatest league in the world – rather, the fact that English clubs look to import players from every corner of the globe. Yet none of them sign Spanish defenders. You can peddle the line that Barca and Madrid make defences look silly with their sheer quality, but that does not explain the weekly cases of absent marking at set-pieces, terrible positional discipline in open play, or the total unpreparedness of defenders for Ronaldo’s aerial prowess. This helps to temper the heat of those goal-a-game ratios of Messi and Ronaldo. The point, here, is that Gareth Bale will not suddenly become a world-great if he does enjoy success in Spain. Statistics can say anything; look at Dimitar Berbatov’s scoring record for Manchester United. All he ever did was score a hat-trick each time
the Red Devils pulverised some relegation fodder at home – it didn’t make him a world-beater. Yes – wins are wins and goals are goals, and if defenders are so liberal in giving the ball away then it must be asked why everyone doesn’t have a goal-a-game scoring ratio. Gareth Bale may well become one of those elite few players – whether he stays home or goes abroad – but he has a lot yet to add to his game. There is a greater debate to be had over just how to measure greatness. Currently, though, by any measurement, Bale is but an above-average player – occasional match-winner – enjoying a purple patch. Anything more is fiction created to keep you occupied now you’ve gone coldturkey on transfer window mania.
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Irish cricket team’s UAE tour boosted by Mooney begin a tour of the United Arab Emirates on 12 March with all-rounder John Mooney back in the squad. The player has been out with a hand injury and will be joined in the team by James Shannon, Instonians batsman. The Irish team will play two warm up games against Canada on 8 and 9 March before taking on the UAE in the ICC Intercontinental Cup, World Cricket League and Twenty20 matches. 12 of the 14 players travelling overseas have previously played for the country in Sri Lanka and with Mooney back in the team the Irish will be travelling with confidence.
the ‘roving threat’ aspect of his game that Ronaldo has long since mastered. What’s more, Bale’s first priority far too frequently is to hit the deck and win a free-kick, rather than explore the options of keeping his feet (a la Lionel Messi). This is not to say he wouldn’t do well at somewhere like Madrid, particularly surrounded by such a variety of classy, skilful players at a club so familiar with success. However, there is also the issue of La Liga’s standard of defending; how often do you see a top Premier League club, a mediocre Premier league club, or a club from anywhere in the Football League, in fact, go all out to acquire a Spanish centre-half? The same can be said of full-backs. This analysis is not borne of a belief that the Premier League constitutes the
last Saturday after twisting his knee during the clubs’ 2-0 Europa League victory over CFR Cluj on Thursday. Milito suffered damage to his anterior cruciate ligament, the collateral ligament and the capsule in his left knee. The Nerazzurri player is expected to be sidelined for at least six months, although a statement released by Inter on Saturday said that the operation was a success. The club added: “The surgery was carried out at Pavia’s Policlinico San Matteo under the supervision of FC Internazionale chief of medical staff professor Franco Combi.” Inter are currently fifth in Serie A, and play Milan next week.
EUSU weed out urinating culprits Two University of Edinburgh intra-mural football teams have been banned from playing on Peffermill’s 3G astroturf after players were caught urinating on the pitch before a recent game. Ollie Cruickshank, co-ordinator for competitions and volunteering at Edinburgh University Sports Union (EUSU), posted a message on the intra-mural football Facebook page, staing that: “This is not acceptable behaviour. As we are unsure which team was caught both teams will be banned from the facilities until further notice.”
Matthew Dunne-Miles Octopus whisperer
It’s been a Champions and Europa league extravaganza this week folks. The clash of footballing cultures and the best in the world coming face to face. I have a good record on fixtures with an international flavour. I do not know whether I have mentioned it? You know, predicting the World Cup results in 2010? No big deal, it only resulted in my rise to fame and untimely demise due to living life like I was Iggy Pop, but that’s the price of stardom; one minute you’re on top of the world, next thing you know you are in a bath in Fife with Michelle McManus. Anyway, back to the football future. AVB SLAMS BALE’S EARS
*The tarot cards signify turmoil
second leg of the Champions League fixture between Man United and Real Madrid. Tough cookie Fergie decides to play the long game by sending Phil Jones over to Madrid to ‘man mark’ Cristiano Ronaldo during his everyday life. Jones, the centre-back with a heart of gold and face of an Asda trolley-boy, will attempt to jockey Ronaldo throughout the next fews week whilst he trains, sleeps, showers and eats. Sir Alex will declare this to be ‘the mind game to end all mind games’ and will admit that he doesn’t expect the job to be easy, describing Cristiano as ‘slippery, like BrylCreem with legs’. I am fuzzy on Mourinho’s response to this, due to the fact he’s erratic to the point of madness.
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*Jamie Carragher’s retirement came as no sur-
prise even to those without the ability of foresight, but this week will see the Scouse slowcoach confess that he decided to hang up his boots because he can’t understand Brendan Rogers’ metaphors. Carragher will tell the papers that despite his best efforts he still cannot grasp literary devices even after investing in a ‘Dummies Guide to Chaucer’ to help with the language barrier. To promote his new tell-all book, Jamie Carragher - More Manly than a Manatee, he will say “I got sick of Brendan’s metaphors, he’d refer to Liverpool as a ship in a storm or a bird with an injured wing, but it’s not, it’s a football club’.
at White Hart Lane this week. Andre Villas-Boas manages to kill the form of the Gareth ‘goals-r-us’ Bale with a single swoop of his famous player management. The rugged redhead will muse in a press conference that for Bale to compete with the Lionel Messis of this world he will have to “get those lugs of meat he calls ears sellotaped to his head” as they are costing him a “yard of pace”. AVB will later retract the comment, saying it was an issue with translation, but the damage will have been done. Bale will admit that his heart celebration he does after scoring is a direct message to his own ears when he watches the game back on Sky+ and he’ll defend them by saying he needs bigger ears to understand both English and Welsh. MAN UTD MIND-GAMES BEGIN
*My third eye abilities sense mind
games galore in preparation for the
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THE MASSACRE AT MURRAYFIELD Scots redeemed, Italians shamed as Scott Johnson’s 15 crush insurgent Azzurri 34-10
Scotland and Glasgow Warriors centre Sean Lamont breaks through the Italian lines to charge down the field for a try likely to linger in Scottish sporting memory for some years to come Jacques Brunel’s Italy in an unexpected display of dominance at Murrayfield on Saturday 9 February, ending a gruelling string of defeats and demonstrating a level of confidence unprecedented in recent Scottish rugby. In a commanding display, Scott Johnson’s backs delivered a dazzling performance, putting down a rare four tries at home in a stunning 34-10 victory over an Italian side who didn’t show up until late in the second half. Scotland were menacing from the kick-off, Edinburgh winger Tim Visser should have scored the opening try within two minutes, but a scrappy defensive line and momentary hesitation denied him the chance. The home side drew first blood with a neat Greig Laidlaw penalty in the 15th minute after an Italian knock-on. From there, the Scots found their momentum — at 25 minutes, Italy were penalised for collapsing the maul, penalty duly converted. Just after the half-hour mark, another Italian fumble put the ball into Visser’s hands, and the winger showed why he’s one of the most promising young players
in European rugby, weaving around the Italian forwards before gliding across the line in the 29th minute for his fifth try in seven international appearances. On 39 minutes, the Scots were guilty of conceding another unforced error — not rolling away — allowing Luciano Orquera to reduce the scoreline to 13-3 at the break. A fast passage of play from the lineout delivered the ball into Matt Scott’s waiting hands, and an out-of-formation Italian defence were unable to stop the Edinburgh man galloping down the centre for a beautiful converted try on 42 minutes. Then minutes later, an Orquera pass found its way into Stuart Hogg’s waiting hands, and the winger charged majestically down the pitch. Laidlaw again added the conversion for an unassailable 27-3 lead on 47 minutes. Not to be outdone, Sean Lamont turned a drubbing into a disaster for Italy with a spectacular charge through the ruck to stroll straight between the posts unopposed for another converted try. Incensed, the Italians fought back and restored some pride as Alessandro Zanni evaded two despairing tackles to crash across the Scottish line five minutes from time.
Christopher Rubey
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5. Italy
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6. France
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Matt Scott barrels over the line — only for referee Jaco Peyper to disallow the try on the basis of a forward pass
Matt Scott dances across the Italian line for his well-deserved try Christopher Rubey
Richie Gray puts his height advantage to good use in the lineout
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Edinburgh University Cricket
Edinburgh University continued with their good run of
Club overcame a competitive St Andrews University side to win their third consecutive Scottish Student Sport indoor cricket 6s final on Saturday. In a tense final, EUCC held their nerve to win by three runs in closely contested final after Scotland’s two premier sides won through to the final after finals day in Aberdeen. Batting first Edinburgh opened with wicketkeeper Alex Baum and captain Keith Allen, and with just 18 runs on the board Baum was run out for five, the first of four run outs in the innings while Allen held the innings together and reached 25 when before ‘retiring’. Richard White (21) and Jonty Poward (22) helped Edinburgh to reach 98 all out in the tenth over, with Allen, who returned after the fall of the fourth wicket, finishing as his sides top scorer with 30. Peter Greene was the pick of the St Andrews attack conceding only 16 runs from his 13 deliveries as his side managed the impressive feat of not bowling a single wide during the match, With only 98 on the board the Edinburgh bowlers had their work cut out to retain their title. John Lowe and Greene opened for
form last Wednesday with a 3-1 victory over University of Stirling. The club have now lost only one out of ten matches, and sits second in the table after Stirling. Edinburgh scored after four minutes on the clock and were 2-0 up at half-time, but did not have the best of the play. Stirling, particularly in the first half, had some decent attempts on goal, their forwards combining to try and bypass the Edinburgh defence. Edinburgh next play Aberdeen on 20 February, with Stirling taking on the latter the following week.
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St Andrews with Ed Abel Smith and White trusted with the ball for Edinburgh. Lowe and Greene batting sensibly, steadily building a solid partnership, taking the score to 52 before a smart stumping from Alex Baum dismissed Greene in the sixth over for 24. With the score on 58 Lowe was clean bowled for 12 by Kevin Meier leaving St Andrews requiring 41 runs for victory from 21 balls. Meier and captain Allen held their nerve to bowl out the final overs to see Edinburgh home by three runs. Meier finishing with figures of 1/21 from his two overs and Allen with 1/19 from two overs. With the cricket teamas due to switch their focus to the outdoor season, EUCC upheld their record as Scotland’s finest indoor cricket team despite the tough opposition from ancient rivals St Andrews. Speaking after the match, a delighted Allen said: “Although it was not the best we have played, we showed great fight to get the job done.” He also paid tribute to St Andrews, acknowledging that they were the hardest team they had faced this season. Later in the day, a Scottish Students team emerged victorious from the inaugural European Student indoor 6s with an impressive 76-run win over the Netherlands in their final match to secure the title.
SQUASH
Edinburgh win last-16 BUCS tie University earn tough quarter-final trip to UWE after trouncing Newcastle 5-0 on home soil Nick Roberts Staff writer
Edinburgh University men’s squash
first team beat Newcastle 5-0 in the last 16 of the BUCS championship to progress through to the quarter-finals and secure their Premier League status next year. Up first were the fifth- and third-string players. At five for Edinburgh, Matthew Stout got off to a slow start losing the first game but then turned the match around taking the next three games 11-7 13-11 11-9 to give Edinburgh the first rubber of the tie. On the parallel court David Jones, playing at 3, won what ended up being a comfortable 3-0; however he had to dig in after going behind at the start of each game. Next on court were Nick Roberts, fourth-string, and Iain Tennant, firststring. Nick never gave his opponent a sniff, dominating the match to win 3-0 dropping only 8 points. This gave Edinburgh their third rubber to win the overall tie with matches to spare. Still on court and unaware on Nick’s result, Iain was equally ruthless, dispatching his opponent 11-4 11-6 11-9 despite a spirited comeback from his opponent in the final game. In the final match, between the second-string players, Zahan Dastur started
very slowly going 7-0 down in the first game, obviously all too aware that Edinburgh were already through. However, Zahan pulled his finger out to take the first game 13-11, and the second 11-6. His opponent obviously wanted to salvage something for his team taking the third game, but Zahan saw out the fourth game to win 3-1 and claim a fantastic 5-0 win for Edinburgh. Edinburgh next travel to Bristol this month to face the University of West England in the quarter-finals. UWE have the world numbers 6, 35 and 98 as their top 3 players so it will by no means be an easy match but, on current form, an upset is not out of the question.
Nick Roberts
The Journal Wednesday 20 February 2013
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KICKBOXING
Matthew Dunne Miles
Fiery fight night packs a punch Fine display of kickboxing at Teviot’s Debating Hall Ruth Jeffery Sport editor
An electric atmosphere buzzed
around the once-stilted Teviot ebating hall on Friday night as Edinburgh University hosted their first ever Fight Night. Kickboxing was the entertainment, music pumping and lights flashing as fighters took to the ring and fought for glory. Shining trophies sat tantalisingly on a table as the crowd filtered into the hall, booze in hand and full of voice. As each fight commenced, an intense quiet filled the room, broken by raucous cheers and wild applause as the competitors relished their moment in the spotlight. Edinburgh University boxers fought ‘the rest of Scotland’, a mix of competitors from gyms around the country. The less experienced fought first in 13 matches of skill and quality. Among the fighters was unbeaten World Champion ‘Title Taker’ Scott Allan (left), a blonde-highlighted fighter with black silk trousers adorned with his name in silver lettering. His fight, like many others, was an exhibition match, fought to showcase talents and gain experience. Of the matches, eight were exhibition matches and so drawn. The outside competitors won four of the rest, Edinburgh one. Even the fights without a winner were thrilling to watch, however, full of passion and drawing much excitement from the crowd. The fight won by Edinburgh boxer Hugh MacCuish was possi-
bly the highlight of the night for the students in the crowd, and certainly evoked a rush of adrenaline which rippled through the room. Motörhead’s ‘The Ace of Spades’ blasted out as the fighters took to the ring, the ninth match of the night and the first with three rounds. MacCuish took on Rob Ewart from the famous Raptors gym. It was a physical match, with lots of close contact and an intense competitiveness. The determination to win was evident in the attacking moves of both fighters, and they looked fitter and more in control than the previous competitors. MacCuish used clean, well-rounded shots and had Ewart on the ropes more than once, seeming to overpower his opponent at points. Ewart favoured attacking from a distance with strong high kicks, and it was only when MacCuish got in close that he struggled to dominate. The experience of the two fighters made for an entertaining match as they were energised for all three rounds and barely faltered in their quest for a trophy. As it became clear in the third round that MacCuish had control of Ewart and consistently threatened him, the atmosphere intensified as the student crowd looked for their first win of the night. The relief at not leaving empty handed was well expressed by the wildly appreciative crowd. Stephen White, a fighter from Kixudo, was most impressive and cut a convincing figure in two matches. He beat Emanuel Videnov in the fourth match of the night, and then drew with Stephen Blowers in the tenth. Striding along the walkway to the ring in a hooded robe, the tattooadorned, well-built boxer fought in red and black silk trousers with gold lettering and ying-yang symbols. He looked the business prior to the match and meant it once inside the ring.
Against Videnov White was solid and unrelenting in attack. The Edinburgh student had treatment to his left eye in between rounds, and finished the tie with a bloody nose. He put up a good defence to White’s blows, but got tired and did not retaliate with the gusto needed. White was productive from close range as well as having a superb kick, and as he never appeared off balance or fazed, it was quite clear even to the untrained eye that he deserved the win. The aforementioned ‘Title Taker’ Scott Allan fought against Antonio Capo from Edinburgh University in the 12th match. Allan is WKA, WTKA and WKU champion professionally, and was Scotland’s youngest ever amateur World Champion at the tender age of ten. He bounded up to the ring to the Lion King’s ‘I just can’t wait to be king’, and took a flying leap over the ropes which sealed his reputation as a confident and energetic fighter. The match was drawn, and was a closer contest than one would have imagined given Allan’s prestige. Capo fought exceptionally well, knocking Allan over at one point and doing a good job early on of taking the fight to him. He did take a few hard kicks in the first round, and was visibly shaken for a few moments. Allan said of the event: “It was very good, it was very successful, and great getting the guys out,” and added about the exhibition match:” It’s just to show what you can do and for an exhibition match — for my opponent to play a professional champion it was great for his confidence as well, so it was really good, and it was good to show off our skills for all the people who bought tickets.” In the contested matches, Gavin Robertson beat Edinburgh University’s Richard Crispin, Daniel Dempster beat Daniel Hayward and Laura Wallace over-
came Zahra Chaudrhi. Robertson later fought against Edinburgh’s Chris Fife in an exhibition match which was exciting and unpredictable, but eventually dominated by the visitor. Fife, secretary of the university kickboxing club, said of the Fight Night: “I think it’s been very good. Each fighter for the university has stood up, held their own. “You know, these guys that they’re fighting, they’re some of the best in Scotland. It’s difficult to compare someone who trains seven times a week to someone who trains with the university. But I think the university’s done fantastic, on the whole, and I think we can be really proud of ourselves, and nobody’s let themselves down. They’ve all gone out and enjoyed themselves and that’s one of the main things about the fight nights.” Fife added “We’d love to do something like this again.” Anyone who was there on the night will hope that they do.
The RESULTS:
UoE v Rest of Scotland Winners in bold Exhibition matches drawn
Richard Crispin v Gavin Robertson Daniel Hayward v Daniel Dempster Zahra Chaudrhi v Laura Wallace Emanuil Videnov v Stephen White Sayujya Sharma v Drew Sherry Josh Holton v David Finnigan Audrey Chia v Ashleigh Aitchison Chris Fife v Gavin Robertson Hugh MacCuish v Rob Ewart Chris Wood v Richard Harkin Antonio Capo v Scott Allan Colm Ó Gríobhtha v Brad Robertson Stephen Blowers v Stephen White
FOOTBALL
UoE in scheme to boost school football Educated Pass is a new programme designed to support youths in schooling and football simultaneously Jak Purkiss Staff Writer
To play football on the big stage in
front of thousands of adoring fans is a dream of so many young boys. The reality, however, usually kicks in around the late teen years. The statistics overwhelmingly sway in favour of those young lads who miss out on signing a professional contract, but these unfavourable factors do not appear to prevent school boys from neglecting their education in pursuit of the dream.
In 2006 Dr Neil Speirs from the University of Edinburgh set up Educated Pass in order to try and avert this trend of failing boys’ education. Speirs has conducted studies which highlights that boys have a higher rate of failure in schools in comparison to their female contemporaries, particularly in areas of relative deprivation. An explanation given for this is the tendency for young lads to neglect their studies in pursuit of a career in football. One of the key aims is to try and shatter the perception that football and education are not compatible.
With the help of Erin Cunningham and the assistance of Kevin Connolly, Educated Pass has co-ordinated a sophisticated programme around which youth football clubs in Edinburgh are encouraged to participate in several events. The initial phases involve engaging the parents and players in order for them to fully understand the aims of the programme. Various game-based situations are utilised for the purpose of illustrating the potential fusion between qualities needed in football and in school. Cunningham has worked closely
with Edinburgh University Football Club (EUAFC) for certain parts of the process where several players volunteered to give presentations and coaching sessions. Through sharing their experiences the players from EUAFC have provided the potential for academic aspirations. Professional clubs have also contributed to the project by providing talks, presentations and novel experiences of the stadiums. Individuals are selected to demonstrate the various skills they have acquired in pursuit of the professional game, with a focus on the combination of sport and education. Finally,
a football tournament is played amongst the clubs that have participated, providing an element of fun and competition which is essential in acquiring the support of both players and their parents. Such an encouraging scheme deserves the wide support and praise it receives. Among the programmes various supporters are Gordon Smith, the Scottish FA Chief executive, and David Little, the National Secretary of Scottish Youth Football. Educated Pass is a Widening Participation project funded and supported by the Sutton Trust.
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FOOTBALL
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Celtic set for final Euro fling Bianconeri will be tought to turn over in Turin Gary Paul Staff writer
Celtic faces a near-impossible task
in Turin after losing 3-0 to Italian leagueleaders Juventus. Celtic Park played host to another famous European night as Neil Lennon’s side looked to produce another upset but these hopes were dashed by a ruthless counter-attacking display from the Bianconeri. Efe Ambrose was included in the Celtic XI despite arriving in Glasgow only hours earlier after success with Nigeria in the African Cup of Nations, and his manager may have been left to rue this risky selection after a series of mistakes. His failure to head clear in the third
minute allowed Alessandro Matri to open the scoring, and the Nigerian passed up his own glorious equalising opportunity on the hour mark. As Marchisio doubled Juve’s lead the game became stretched and another error by Ambrose allowed Vucinic in for a cool finish to just about put the tie out of reach. Celtic can take several positives into the away leg however. Despite conceding early they dominated possession; Kris Commons’ creativity provided several openings which the home side was unfortunate not to take. Charlie Mulgrew’s delivery was impressive once more but again Celtic could not take these opportunities, most notably that which fell to Ambrose and would have
surely changed the direction of the tie. Interestingly, Celtic seemed confident that they could beat Juventus in open play. As the Italians sat on their one goal lead Celtic took the game to them — Scott Brown and Victor Wanyama kept the talismanic Andrea Pirlo quiet for the most part and supported attacks where they could. The difference in class soon told though, and it became evident that a stroke of luck would be required were Celtic to pass their way through a typically solid Italian back three. Usually a great threat from set pieces, Lennon’s side was shackled by some rather physical defending at corners. Perhaps Juventus were happy to invite pressure from Celtic, knowing their class would afford them opportunities as the game wore on. Even with Pirlo in check, there was little to stop the impressive Marchisio from showing his quality, and from showing the true gulf between the sides. In the home side Gary Hooper was uncharacteristically quiet and Fraser Forster didn’t showcase his talents as in the past. Celtic will no doubt regret gifting the two goals that have likely put the tie beyond them, and failing to capitalise on a surprising majority of possession. As for the return leg, Scottish fans will be reminded of the Euro 2008 qualifier against Italy when two sublime Andrea Pirlo free kicks put Alex McLeish’s side to the sword. Celtic would be naive to forget the technical brilliance the Italian champions have in their ranks but should be buoyed by the positives in their own display. An unlikely reversal of the scoreline would surely be one of the most remarkable results in the club’s history but even a defeat in Turin should not overshadow what has otherwise been a very impressive European campaign — one that Scottish football should be proud of.
Nigeria’s Cup of Nations triumph bodes well for Africa’s domestic leagues Inclusion of local players in tournament squad pays dividends for eventual winners Michael Mawdsley Staff writer Nigeria’s triumph in the African Cup of Nations came as no particular surprise to those who were fortunate enough to watch them play in the tournament. Attractive attacking football mixed with pace, skill and technical precision saw them sail through the latter stages of the tournament, despite a nervy qualification group that saw them ten minutes from being knocked out in their final game. Despite being blessed with a plethora of talent playing in Europe, the Super Eagles coach Stephen Keshi decided to select six players from local leagues. Still, the squad was made up of predominantly European-based players, including Efe Ambrose of Celtic. Although Keshi was criticised for his selection of locally sourced players, they came good and made the tournament all the more worthwhile. In recent times it has been a policy not just of Nigeria, but nations such as the Ivory Coast and Senegal, to select mainly from its European-based talent pool, rather than youthful prospects playing domestically. After the Nigeria Premier League’s Sunday Mba’s stunning finish
to win the final 1-0 against Burkina Faso there will hopefully be a change of heart. While Africa is not famed for its domestic leagues, their input to European top flight contribution is first rate. Last season alone there were 37 Africans playing in the top flight in England, an outstanding turnover. For Nigeria, and Africa in general, this victory means that faith can be placed in those domestic players as opposed to European exports, something which is only a positive. For Keshi, this victory is also a step in the right direction personally; before the tournament Nigeria were not considered favourites, yet he has become the first black coach to win the tournament in 21 years and the first Nigerian manager to win the competition since 1994. With the World Cup in Brazil round the corner, there is a momentum that could see Nigeria progress to the world’s highest stage, where on their current form they would undoubtedly cause issues for higher-ranked teams. And they won the Cup of Nations in style. If their tactics can work against a top-class team such as Ivory Coast, it can work against the European and the South American powerhouses. For Nigeria, this tournament represents the beginning of something very exciting.
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Bayern Munich: the new kings of Europe Bavarian club has stormed the Bundesliga Ollie Bunting Staff writer
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If there is anything that football fans have learned this season then it is that German football is well and truly on the rise. With its smart and attractive model, cheap ticket prices, big stadiums and four different league winners in the last six years, the Bundesliga has made serious inroads into becoming a force to be reckoned with. Leading the way at the top of the table so far this season has been the mighty club from Bavaria, Bayern Munich. Before this season the club has had a couple of disappointing years; playing second fiddle to the new emerging power of Borussia Dortmund and a heartbreaking defeat to Chelsea in last season’s Champions League final. However, this year Bayern have led the German table from the start of the season and not put a foot wrong along the way. They are 15 points clear of Dortmund who lie in second and have only conceded one goal away from home all year, an astonishing feat. Nor have they looked like faltering since the recent winter break with four wins from four and no goals conceded, including a 4-0 thumping of inconsistent Schalke.
However, the news likely to please Bayern fans is last months announcement that the ever-sought after Pep Guardiola will be taking over the reins at the Allianz Arena for the start of the 2013-14 season. This has to be labelled as one of the major coups of recent years snatching Pep from underneath the noses of nearly every single leading European football club. And in an age when managers are sacked and brought in at the expense of millions of pounds of compensation (see Chelsea for full details) Bayern have neatly sidestepped this. Current manager Jupp Heynckes had already announced before Christmas that he would be retiring at the end of the season. Guardiola should fit in smoothly with a club that possesses such a similar model to the one in Catalonia. This decision may have come as a surprise despite Italian and German newspapers appearing to know days before the English media reported the move. France’s L’Equipe called it a ‘natural decision’ while the English press were left with their mouths gaping. This may not be the last time Bayern and Guardiola leave us with mouths agape for what’s in store next season.
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FORMULA ONE
Paul’s better than all di Resta The Scot takes his seat at Force India for 2013 with much to prove at this pivotal stage of his career Ali Wollaston Staff writer With the new Formula One season fast approaching, 2013 may be the year that Scotland’s Paul di Resta silences his critics. Despite a solid opening two seasons in the sport, the 26-year-old from Livingston missed out on several much-touted moves that could have seen him move from mid-table Force India into the high profile garages of Ferrari, McLaren or Mercedes. After much media speculation, a deal with none of these teams materialised. Ferrari opted to re-sign the erratic Felipe Massa, Mercedes made a big-money move for Lewis Hamilton from McLaren with the Woking outfit replacing the 2008 world champion with Mexican talent Sergio Pérez from Sauber. Now in the last year of his contract with Force India, di Resta has spoken publicly of his disappointment at failing to secure a drive for one of the major teams within the sport, and has repeatedly stated he feels ready to challenge for titles, but some critics have questioned his long-term suitability for the upper echelons of Formula One. As a former winner of the German Touring Car Championship, the Scot’s raw talent as a driver is not in question. Questions do remain over his ability to maintain consistent results
over the course of a long F1 season. He started the 2012 season strongly before trailing off to finish a disappointing 14th in the drivers’ championship with his best finish fourth at the Singapore Grand Prix, and both driver and team will know that greater consistency is needed if progress is to be made. Despite this, supporters of di Resta would correctly argue that Force India, as a team, have achieved a greater level of consistency in recent times than their rivals. While Sauber and Williams achieved hugely impressively results last season through Pérez and Pastor Maldonado respectively, other drivers within these teams seemed to suffer as a result. Force India meanwhile were achieving consistent if less spectacular results with both drivers on a far more regular basis. With nine points-finishes in 20 races, including just one retirement after a second-lap collision with Renault’s Roman Grosjean on lap two, di Resta is, at the very least, a strong and dependable team member. The pantheon of F1 greats is not however littered with mere team players. Great individual pace, a mind for strategy and a ruthless edge are also needed, and these are all areas in which di Resta must improve if he is to challenge the likes of reigning treble world champion Sebas-
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tian Vettel, Hamilton and Fernando Alonso at the top. Force India too must also improve to match his ambitions, working to bridge the gap to Sauber — now led by di Resta’s impressive former team mate Nico Hülkenberg — and to compete with a Williams line-up in 2013 that, on paper, looks exceptionally quick. A difficult task considering that Force India are yet to confirm who will partner the Scot this season, although Sutil has reportedly had a seat fitting and could make a surprise return to the team. Much will remain unknown about the shape of the new F1 season right up until the cars take to the grid on 17 March in Melbourne, but the signs for the 2013 season are so far promising for Force India fans. During ongoing pre-season testing this month, di Resta has repeatedly commented on his car’s improved reliability, which could prove central to maintaining a consistent performance over a season. His respectable lap times achieved at the same testing events while running with heavy fuel loads hints at a car that may possess real pace. Reason for optimism then, considering that ultimately both of these factors could prove integral to the success of di Resta’s campaign, in what may prove to be the most important season of his career.
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Hearts’ home humiliation Jam Tarts suffer injury and dropped points in Killie defeat Scottish Premier League
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Adam Gordon Staff writer
John McGlynn must be wondering what else he will have to contend with as his Hearts side suffered yet another injury setback en route to a comprehensive three-nil home defeat by Kilmarnock. Paul Heffernan’s hat-trick earned Kenny Shiels’ team a well deserved three points in a clinical display which extended Kilmarnock’s unbeaten run at Tynecastle to five matches from April 2010. Hearts defensive ranks were further dented by a severe blow, as they lost Darren Barr after the centre back clashed heads with his teammate Danny Wilson on the edge of the Hearts 18-yard box. The former Falkirk player, who sustained a concussion as a result of the collision, joins captain Marius Zaluikas on the club’s growing injury list. The match began with neither team able to exert any real pressure
on their opponents. Hearts’ young team showed neat touches in the midfield, while Kilmarnock looked to close down the home side and break on the counter attack. However, Barr’s departure unsettled the home team and paved the way for the visitors to open the scoring before halftime. A cross whipped in from the left by James Dayton was met unopposed by Paul Heffernan, who headed in from four yards out and put Kilmarnock ahead four minutes before half-time. Hearts began the second half with more purpose and they looked to John Sutton, playing in place of Holt, to provide more of a physical threat. Despite winning a series of corners, Hearts fell further behind, as Sutton’s profligacy from a set-piece on the hour mark was punished shortly after. Ironically, it was a Kilmarnock corner that led to the second goal. After a neat header by Mohamadou Sissoko, Heffernan, with his back to goal, swivelled to meet the ball with his right foot and scored his and Kilmarnock’s second goal of the match from close range after 64 minutes. Any chance of a Hearts comeback effectively ended when David Ngoo’s header was cleared off the line. The miss would prove costly as Kilmarnock finished off the contest with a
their third goal. With 20 minutes remaining, Heffernan completed his hat-trick to compound Hearts’ misery. John McGlynn lamented his side’s bad luck with injuries after the match: “Defensively it’s not the way we have been defending. Unfortunately there has been massive changes to the defence at the start of the season. Today it didn’t help losing Darren Barr, it didn’t help losing Marius Zaliukas.” Battered and bruised, Hearts must now pick themselves up for the League Cup final against St. Mirren in two weeks time. First they take on Inverness at Tynecastle next week in what looks to be a tough test for the beleaguered Jambos.
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