“Last time I picked up [cocaine], I picked up with seven other people, and I was the only one who tested The latest data from the UK Department of Health in 2018 showed MDMA/Ecstasy purity levels at 76%. Cocaine was even lower at 63%, the lower-priced variety known sometimes as ‘student’ cocaine, at about detect postmortem; according to King’s College London, they are estimated to go underreported by 33% in UK in cocaine. 

Research Excellence Framework) results of 2021 place research at St Andrews amongst the top thirty in the UK The partnership with the University of Edinburgh for Chemistry was ranked first in the UK based on the The REF is a detailed analysis of the research strength of all UK universities. celebrate the achievements of several of our Schools whose research is rated amongst the best in the UK responsibility” for research to be entered for assessment, for the first time in the history of the UK

On Thursday 4 July, the UK’s general election polls marked a staggering turn in the history of British Two unexpected victors of this election were Nigel Farage’s Reform UK, who quadrupled their seats from In the St Andrews seat of North East Fife, the incumbent Liberal Democrats not only held onto the seat In the 2019 election, the Lib Democrats won North East Fife by only a slim majority, with just over 1,000 Unlike most seats in the UK, the Liberal Democrats won an outright majority of votes in the constituency

The uncomfortable relationship between Britpop and British Politics Picture the scene: it is 1997 and being British is, dare I say it, hot. Noel Gallagher is playing ‘Wonderwall’ on his famous union jack guitar, Blur have just dropped a new album, and Ginger Spice is hopping around international TV pairing the flag with some red go-go boots in maybe the best show of diplomacy that Britain has ever seen. The 90s marked the life and death of the Cool Britannia movement, a kind of cultural renaissance that saw a real resurgence of British pride: Fish and chips? Cool. PG tips? Cool. Britpop? The coolest. Coming in the tracksuit-clad form of Blur, Oasis, Suede, and Pulp, Britpop was the soundtrack of the decade, its beating heart. These bands sang us through a nostalgic return to the British pride of the 60s, Blur being inspired by the Kinks and Oasis by the Beatles. But the impact of Britpop went deeper than sexing up bangers and mash. The 90s had kicked off 11 years deep into Tory rule. A recession was being felt, employment was at a record-breaking low, and a huge surge in drug use was, in true Tory fashion, complimented by a numerical surge in the Police force. Through these Britpop anthems, the working classes were given a voice testament to their experience living in this climate. Social injustice and frustration now sat at the forefront of music. Think Blur’s ‘Parklife’, or the “city dweller, successful fella” satirised in ‘Country House’, or Pulps title track ‘Common people’ of their album Different Class. The Thatcherian RP that characterised the last 11 years was also side-lined. Oasis brought a working class Mancunian (and aggressively nasally) intonation into their songs. Jarvis Cocker sang with his Sheffield accent. Parklife is spoken with a Cockney lilt. These were artists bringing their regional identities and voices to the forefront of British pride. So how does this world of flags, accents, and go-go boots collide with the political one? Music hits people deep and don’t politicians know it. I’m going to painfully remind you here of Liz Truss revoltingly quoting Taylor Swift in the commons last year. I also personally struggled to listen to The Cure for a good six months after Boris named it his favourite band. Looking to the 1997 election, it’s no surprise that Blair saw Britpop as the key ingredient in an election campaign promised to be the “perfect storm of politics, music, and PR”. In Blair’s pursuit of a Labour victory, Britpop began to see itself co-opted by political forces who maybe didn’t want to “live like common people” but burned to know “whatever common people do”. The Labour party/britpop intertwinement became most famously apparent with Blair’s appearance as guest of honour at the 1996 Brit awards. The night's progression saw Noel Gallagher floating onstage to announce that Blair “gave a little bit of hope to young people”. Noel might’ve been too hungover to take Labour up on the offer of playing at their party conference, but he did appear at a highly publicised Downing street function on their victory (one which Blur passed on, as did Liam, with the gorgeous words “looks like a s***house”). Oasis’ ‘Magic Pie’ of their 1997 Be Here Now album even contains a direct reference to a line from one of Blair’s speeches. The lines were hazy. This wasn’t just a Noel/Blair affair — it was something deeper. Blair bizarrely hailed the growth of creation records as a “great example of new Labour”, even reaching out to creation records and requesting access to the Oasis database. When the election was won, it was win-win; creation records soaked up new-found publicity. Blur was similarly kept under Labour’s thumb. “So, what’s the scene out there?” Blair asked its frontman in an exchange that maybe sums up the entire weird relationship. Later in the decade, Albarn actually came out criticising the way that Labour was “no longer interested in artists’ opinions” once they’d ascended to office. Labour were not subtle in their aim to take popular culture and layer on their own message. I don’t believe that musicians expressing support for a political party is a bad thing — in fact, I’m in favour of it. But the Britpop genre sat at an uncomfortable intersection between social empowerment, British pride, and downright political games. Such a carefully cultivated symbiotic relationship between politics and music seems dubious to me. I wonder who it benefits the most. It’s not the musicians. And it’s definitely not the people. Illustration by Calum Mayor

However, it has already received much online backlash due to images circulating of Marisa Abela, the

“When I buy from the dark web, [I’m] typically buying directly from the producers”, he says. “Just for the safety and security reasons, you can’t go on Tor and just search up, ‘where to buy cocaine Purchasing drugs cut with unwanted products is a key concern for online drug shoppers. “Maybe cocaine [as well], but I don’t deal with cocaine,” He adds that he has tested MDMA friends have UK law prohibits the purchase and possession of a range of drugs under the 1971 Misuse of Drugs Act.

. 107 candidates stood, and 3,373 votes were cast, solidifying the Union’s elections as some of the UK The National Charity selected was Alzheimer’s Research UK, the UK’s leading Alzheimer’s research charity breakdowns of each round of voting for the positions, students can access the elections portal, at ​​https

the year in which the Further and Higher Education Act was passed, the number of universities in the UK As there are (according to the Complete University Guide) 130 universities currently in the UK, this Bear in mind that universities have existed in the UK for almost one thousand years. It begins before higher education, taking root within schools up and down the UK. (‘Golf Management’, offered at several UK institutions but – thankfully – not at the university of the

I noticed a through-line to my own life when I examined the experience of visiting my hometown. I had waited nineteen years to actually jumpstart my life, and the reality of how long I had waited only kindness I learned through living peacefully, the time I gave myself to read and learn represented the only

In fact, James has really brought out the big guns — not only has he used two enormous words, but he’ Sadly though, James hasn’t gone full American, Britons tend only to practice emotional monologuing at

Repeated exposure to addictive substances (including cocaine, alcohol, and opioids) results in compulsive Shaham studied relapse mechanisms through drug-taking in rats that were trained to self-administer cocaine After a ten-day training session, the rats were withdrawn from cocaine for differing lengths of time. eager to acquire the substance, suggesting that neural circuits supporting cue-drug association are not only

However, the UK’s biggest food export (adding £760 million to the economy and creating jobs for more pressure, and poor regulation, the aquaculture industry has been hurried into a dingy corner where the only If salmon are already suffering from disease, oxygen shortage only accelerates their dying, in turn producing god-like wisdom was once held in such high regard that the ancient Picts refused to consume it, is now only

in the air in St Andrews, but for fourth years Flore Bindel and Rosie Ruane, winter adventures have only Although courses can run with up to six participants, Bindel and Ruane were the only two booked in, meaning

studying Modern History, who spent 23 to 27 October on a journey in a four-by-four vehicle from the UK He had to catch a flight back to the UK to resume his studies. He visited the city centre and officially dropped off the vehicles. Wilkes was the only American and one of two young adults involved. In Lviv, Wilkes and his group of volunteers visited the Ukrainian War Cemetery —  Field of Mars.

through her home until we reached the end of the garden; she opened the door, and before us stood the only people by the name of their press rather than their name or their face,” Hollis said, describing the UK

A women-only gym is set to open on Tom Stewart Lane in St Andrews following six months of debate at Fife

The pilot complements the UK’s first licensed drug-checking service in Glasgow, where users can legally The delay followed a dispute with the UK government, which refused approval unless glass recycling was excluded to align with a UK-wide model. information on the issues raised in this article can be accessed via Rape Crisis Scotland on their website   https Advice and support on reporting sexual assault from the University can be found by visiting   https:/

Unthinking Compassion Doesn't Work When It Comes to Addiction It has been the observation of many psychologists, philosophers, and religious leaders that the age we live in is beset by one singularly vicious malady – addiction. Indeed we have become collectively aware of this to a high enough degree that we will monitor things like our phone usage and sugar intake for signs of addictive behaviour. However, in this age of addiction there has taken place in parallel a swell of support for the legalisation of drugs. This is often accompanied by a call for a more compassionate attitude towards addiction, which, taken together with legalisation, is seen as a move towards destigmatising drug use and thus making the problem of addiction easier to solve. A wide public conversation over the issue of addictions has taken place in Britain for over a decade now. Actor Matthew Perry has long argued for the disease-model of addiction that emphasises the helplessness of the addict in the face of his or her compulsion. Nine years ago, he received pushback from journalist Peter Hitchens in a Newsnight interview. This interview showed how far opinion had swung towards treating drug use as a medical problem rather than a criminal one, as Hitchens was mocked by Perry and even host Jeremy Paxman for his view that drug laws should be more stringently enforced. Having experienced addiction myself — not to the extent that Perry has, but enough to understand its psychological mechanics — when I first encountered Hitchens’ views I thought them an expression of sheer emotional laziness, someone preferring to stay in clean rational territory rather than engage with the messy emotional depths of an issue. However, after watching a recent interview between Hitchens and YouTuber Alex O’Connor, I found myself in vehement agreement with Hitchens. It seems necessary, therefore, to articulate a fuller view of addiction that is compassionate but also disciplinarian. By insisting on the force of the law and maintaining — at the very least — the prohibitive status-quo around drugs, I think that Hitchens understands the depths of addiction better than a casual advocate for legalisation like O’Connor. He can be said to understand addiction because, in opposing the consumption of drugs full stop, he positions himself in exactly the same place that a recovering addict like Perry finally crawls to after years of drug abuse – abstinence. Hitchens clearly is not the person to come to for a sympathetic chat about your time as an addict, but that doesn’t mean that he, and the law, is not in some other sense a friend. My own experience with drug abuse was a brutal lesson in my own inability to govern myself, not in Perry’s sense of being unable to choose not to succumb, but in being ignorant to what was in fact good for me: what my mind, my body, and indeed my God, required of me. Addiction is, I would argue, a religious phenomenon, but of a distinctly heathen kind. It promises transcendence but fails to deliver every time: just like how the pagan sacrifice of children could never really guarantee a good harvest of crops. In advocating for the maintenance and the enforcement of the criminality of drugs, Hitchens is speaking to the now oft-forgotten aspect of the law that wants to express, like a father, what it knows is best for us. Jordan Peterson said it best in a 2021 interview: “You tell people that you love how to avoid the road to hell. And you don’t do that because you’re shaking your finger at them, or because you’re a moral authority. You do it because you don’t want them to burn”. The law is not simply a collection of regulations that limit people’s freedom. Rather, the law must at least try to support and enforce the loving spirit of guidance that a father would take to their child, not by embodying compassion (because the law is not a person and so simply can’t) but discipline. Hitchens’ paternalism is a necessary component of the collective struggle against addiction, whether he can empathise with the hellish depths of the condition or not. Certainly his perspective is not a complete one, but without it we will fail utterly to understand, and thus properly treat, addiction. Photo by Wikimedia Commons

Forget army-style drills and so-called ‘civic exploration’ trips, the only service we should be giving So, not only do hospitality roles physically accommodate the local community, but they form a micro-community

And speaking of noses, Freud’s penchant for cocaine was enough to blow your average Vic enjoyer out of Thornton in Freud and Cocaine says that Freud was most likely actually on cocaine whilst writing his Vic enjoyer, though: do they realise their debt to Freud, who, as argued by Dominic Streatfeild in Cocaine : An Unauthorised Biography, is singly responsible for the emergence of cocaine as a recreational drug are naughty you will see who is stronger, a gentle little girl who doesn’t eat or a big wild man with cocaine