"You fell over, Jack"
The time is two-thirty pm. The scene, a family planning centre in Rose Hill, Oxford. Inside, a wall of angry mothers, hungry for blood, fidgeting on their chairs, relentlessly push their nails into their fists to relieve the frustration of waiting. A pack of glamorous journalists sweep around, cameras at the ready, watched calmly by an army of government agents, furtively barking into the microphones sewed into their cuffs. Outside, a baying mob of anti-war protesters spit insults at the barrier of armed police. They are baying for the man they have labelled "Britain's chief war-monger." The Foreign Secretary, Jack Straw, is eagerly awaited....
Features: Eyeing Up Oxford
With a furtive glance over his shoulder, the man slams the door of the car, staggers backwards, and begins to lumber down the street, swigging from a beer can. We can see his face in full detail. We can see the brand of beer he's drinking. We can see him but he can't see us.
Features: Eyeing Up Oxford
With a furtive glance over his shoulder, the man slams the door of the car, staggers backwards, and begins to lumber down the street, swigging from a beer can. We can see his face in full detail. We can see the brand of beer he's drinking. We can see him but he can't see us.
Features: Eyeing Up Oxford
With a furtive glance over his shoulder, the man slams the door of the car, staggers backwards, and begins to lumber down the street, swigging from a beer can. We can see his face in full detail. We can see the brand of beer he's drinking. We can see him but he can't see us.
Features: Galloway with words
The smell is unmistakable, the dark-suited tie-free figure is borderline iconic. "We'll have to go somwhere I can smoke" he growls his Dundee brogue before conflagrating the remnants of a Cuban cigar. Even his smoking materials are socialist.
Features: Cardinals and Condoms
Every five seconds someone somewhere is infected with HIV/Aids. Most cases occur in sub-Saharan Africa but incidences of the virus are increasing year on year in every continent on the globe. Based on the World Health Organisation's estimated figures, by the time next week's edition of The OxStu comes out a further 120,960 people will have become infected. As yet, there is no effective cure for Aids....
Features: Israel: beyond the fence
On stepping into the hotel foyer on the morning of my first day in Israel, I noticed a man sitting patiently next to a coffee table, with a rifle slung casually over his shoulder. Jeremy Leigh, our guide, told us that it is normal for groups to have armed guards, and that it's nothing to worry about.
Features: The hype behind the headlines
"Start her up!" shouted the Sun's banner on Monday, advertising its new feature 'Carmasutra', a guide to - you guessed it - having sex in a car. Given the Sun's huge number of female readers (more than any other paper), you might think it would treat sex in a more inclusive way. But for the Sun, to paraphrase Martin Crane, sex is between you and the woman you're doing it to. ...
Features: Greg Hilditch, Chair of Oxford University Labour Club, considers the state and fate of the Blairite leadership
Paradoxically, it says a lot about Tony Blair that after nearly seven years as the most media-savvy Prime Minister in history, the man himself remains something of an enigma.
Features: Learning to lead
Ninety-nine per cent of Oxford graduates will fall out of college and into the wastepaper basket of corporate life: three years in a mind-numbing data-crunching role, perhaps a promotion, perhaps a stress-induced heart attack. If you're going to have a heart attack, however, it might as well be induced by something worthwhile; if you've got the balls, a different path lies open: Learning to Lead. "Ninety-nine percent of people need not apply"....
Features: New Kids On The Balkans
On arrival at Dom Gavroche in Varna, Bulgaria, I was disappointed to learn that I had been beaten to it by Prince Charles. How were three students, tired and pasty after an overnight train ride from Sofia, ever going to live up to such royal expectations? It did not, however, take long to realise that the children would make no discrimination against our lack of blue blood. The main difference was that we did not have particularly big ears, for which the sign language was reassuringly international. So, we broke the ice by comparing ear sizes, as good a start as any I thought....
Features: Passion, Painting and a Pearl
Remember Pride and Prejudice? (The BBC television adaptation that is, not the book.) If not, consider yourself lucky: you've missed out on Darcy Mania, otherwise known as Firth Fever.
Features: The future of fees...
Hello, Mr Jones - this is Marianne calling from the Fiscal Department of the National Health Service. We've noticed that you don't seem to have paid for your health cover, Mr Jones.
