Controversial comedy – Or political correctness gone mad? Ex-Veritas columnist in discrimination row

Catie Guitart In a case of preaching to the unconverted, Scottish comedian The Reverend Obadian Steppenwolfe III has been accused of “grossly crossing a line of decency and respect” by the Stirling University Students Association (SUSA), who are campaigning to have him banned from 16 student unions

Pirate Bay no safe habour for file sharing

Catie Guitart The word ‘pirate’ is derived from the Greek word peira, which roughly translates to ‘to find luck on the sea’. Language lessons aside, it seems Swedish-hosted file sharing site Pirate Bay is no longer sailing through untroubled waters. In a court case that has bordered on farcical, three of the website’s co-founders, Fredik Neij, [...]

The time has come: remove nukes from Scotland

Catie Guitart  Scotland could invoke international law to block the UK government’s desire to maintain a nuclear arsenal, one of the world’s leading legal experts has stated. In the run-up to the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament’s 51st anniversary on February 17th, Judge Christopher Weeramantry, former vice-president of the International Court of Justice (ICJ), told an [...]

Napier doesn’t make the grade in nation-wide student experience survey

Catie Guitart Napier University bottomed out in a UK-wide ranking of universities, according to a survey of students’ perception of their experience at university. The survey, the second of its kind and commissioned by The Times Higher Education Supplement, placed Napier University at 93 out of 101 universities in a poll designed to showcase universities [...]

Dumpster-diving: Bin there, done that?

Veritas gets down in the dumpster in the hunt for free food With the country now ‘officially’ in recession, after the worst slump in gross domestic product (GDP) since 1980, unemployment is on the rise in all industries with predictions of two million jobless in 2009. Though quarterly student loans means that Scottish students are [...]