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17/01/2025

Welcome back! Here is our events schedule for the week ahead, all activities are open to non members to come along and get to know us and meet eachother as we welcome in those joining us this semester! 📰📰

Our new and old Writers' coffee morning is tomorrow, this Saturday at 11am in the MF coffee shop in Summerhall! Get some coffee, meet fellow writers and chat to editors about their sections before our first meeting. It's a great way to learn more about the paper and meet new people! 🌟

27/08/2024

The 2024 Fringe Festival is over, and before we transition back into our regularly scheduled programming, we at The Student wanted to highlight a few of our absolute favourite shows from the month. Thank you all for following our coverage, see you next year!

We also want to give a massive shout-out to , our amazing president for all of our amazing graphic design this month, and keeping the website up while dealing with more traffic than we’ve ever had!

24/08/2024

has done it again, triumphantly bringing his show “The Kaye Hole” back to the fringe for 2024. Read our full ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ review at the link in our bio.

📸 Image by Kyam Ross, Graphics by Tommy Manning
🖊️ Words by Katherine Coble

20/08/2024

We might be speeding towards the end of the 2024 Fringe Festival, but there are still plenty of shows to see before the month comes to a close. We’re showcasing a few of our favourite shows from this week, to help ease your decision making process.

Read the full reviews and more at our (newly optimised for desktop!) website!

19/08/2024

“For the Love of Spam” is a delightfully impressive mix of humour and introspection, as Sierra Sevilla weaves together a narrative of colonialism and food.

Read our full review at the link in our bio.

🖊️Written by Mátin Cheung
📸 Photo by Barbara Dubek, graphics by Tommy Manning

14/08/2024

Everyone’s talking about Weather Girl. We scored a ticket to Brian Watkins’ sold-out dark comedy about the American psyche.

Read our full ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ review at the link in our bio.

🖊️ Words by Olivia Fischer
📸 Photography by Michael Wharley, graphics by Tommy Manning

11/08/2024

Ginger Johnson’s much-anticipated debut fringe show relies too heavily on its production, and in the end leaves much to be desired.

🖊️Written by Tommy Manning
🔗Read our ⭐️⭐️ .5 review at the link in our bio

06/08/2024

With 3600 hundred shows (and 36,000,000 flyers), it can be difficult to figure out the best use of your time and money during the Fringe. Luckily for you, we at The Student have rounded up our top nine shows of the week for your viewing pleasure.

🔗 Read the full reviews at the link in our bio
📸 Slide one photography by Tommy Manning and Katherine Coble

05/05/2024

BREAKING: A pro-Palestine encampment has been set up in the University of Edinburgh’s Old College quad to protest alleged University investments to Israeli-linked companies and to call for the University of Edinburgh to “openly denounce its historic role in the settler-colonisation of Palestine”.

🔗Read more at the link in our bio.
🖋️Written by Jack Davies

29/04/2024

BREAKING: Humza Yousaf, Scotland’s First Minister, has announced his resignation. This move comes after his success in two votes of no confidence seemed unlikely. Yousaf will remain party leader until the SNP elects a new leader.

This comes after the controversial collapse of the SNP’s power-sharing deal with the Scottish Greens.

🔗Read the full story at the link in our bio
🖋️Written by Jack Davies and Sam Marks

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