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Features: A Knighthood's Tale
The British honours system has taken a bit of a knocking of late. First came the vitriolic attack on it - and simultaneous rejection of an OBE - by the poet Benjamin Zephaniah last November.
Features: Drink spiking: the facts
Where was she? Gemma was furious as she stood outside the club shivering, clutching her mobile phone close to her ear. Shaking on the toilet floor inside the club, Caroline could hear the phone ringing but could not co-ordinate herself enough it pick it up. Later on she would find out that when she went to dance, leaving her drink foolishly on the bar, she had become the latest victim of drink spiking. That was my sister. She was lucky; she woke up in...
Features: Terror behind the scenes
The bulk of the daily news from most African countries always serves the monotonously insidious menu of stories of starvation, disease, conflict and poverty; but nothing has made me more grief stricken than the news from the Ugandan press during the last few weeks. The 18 year conflict is a complex conglomerate of political, social and historical factors....
Features: Busy Playing FTSE
Our exuberant, unceasing, and ultimately human thirst for knowledge has finally been well and truly quenched. The flow of information in our 21st century world is of such a pace and quantity that our critical faculties are swamped on a daily basis with facts, figures and opinion; contributors range from measured commentators to the avid, anonymous web-blogger and the frustrated individual who wants to add his voice to the cacophony....
Features: Master of the Maze
Childhood legend of Crystal Maze fame, creator of the Rocky Horror cult, and able to perform the Timewarp on the guitar in the Union chamber without looking like a complete prick, Richard O'Brien is a man worth meeting. Far from the otherwordly, sinister character we are used to on screen, O'Brien comes across as a self-deprecating, sensible family man who relishes "kindness and intelligence" and whose best moments in life "were as trite as the children being born."...
Features: International Velvet
When Caleb Liu arrived at Oxford in October, he found it surprisingly easy to adapt. Although this was the Singaporean PPEist's first time studying in the UK, he quickly found a support system in the Malaysian and Singapore Students' Association, one of the many thriving national societies at the University. Over laksa (spicy noodles in curry), sushi, and terriyaki chicken - just some of the dishes served at the Asian Food Festival - Liu made friends. "Events like these are good," he enthuses. "You can meet people from your own culture and talk about common interests."
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