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A record breaking number of people crossed the finish line of the Vitality Oxford Half Marathon last Sunday. Over ten thousand runners took part in the 13.1-mile-long race, in which runners and supporters, children and adults alike all enjoyed. The course changed this year with the starting and finishing lines both on Broad Street, which […]
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I was recently visiting a friend in St Andrew’s when I saw an article in their student newspaper ‘The Saint’ containing fashion advice for Freshers. Their main suggestion for essential items revolved around cashmere, hardly the most affordable or mainstream type of knitwear. It inspired me to write my own article, dispensing some more […]
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Oxford University’s Student Union has released a video as part of their campaign to prevent the university raising tuition fees for current UK and EU students. They revealed that Oxford University plan on raising fees from £9,000 to £9,250 from 2017/18 for all students, including those who are currently studying here. The changes will be […]
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Oriel College have come top in this year’s Norrington Table with 76.75 per cent, whilst Queen’s sunk to the bottom of the table with only 66.6 per cent, down five places from last year. Merton was close on Oriel’s heels, coming second with a score of 76.71 per cent, seemingly recovered from their shocking 27th […]
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I picked up a copy of Claudia Rankine’s Citizen: An American Lyric following Simon Armitage’s inaugural lecture here in Oxford towards the end of Michaelmas. He touched upon her writing as he discussed the prominence of poetry in modern life, and to what extent it still holds significance. He questioned whether Rankine’s novel poem can […]
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As you walk through the streets of Israel’s second biggest city your eyes are drawn, squinting, away from the beating sun, and to the walls. The streets of Tel Aviv are crowded with images; even the old city of Jaffa, the historical site of the stories of Solomon, Jonah and Saint Peter, is strewn with […]
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A torrential downpour marked the funeral of Lee Kuan Yew on 30th March, mirroring the sentiment of his son Lee Hsien Loong when he said “that light that has guided us all these years has been extinguished’”. As the founding father of modern Singapore; architect of a state arguably closer to More’s idealized Utopia than […]
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Walking into the departmental archives of La Rochelle, France, I expected to find a beacon of tranquillity, the musty scent of ages past, perhaps some light jazz. Instead I found a geriatric underbelly of vice, licentiousness and high-stakes shuffling, aided and abetted by au fait administrators, and orthopaedic footwear. I was unaware that archival research […]
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Because mental health illnesses are less visible than obvious physical illnesses or injuries, they are often treated as less serious, less devastating, and less life-changing, than physical illnesses. This is a dangerous approach to take to public health. Now the tide is turning. The treatment of mental health in this country is improving. Stigma and […]
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Trinity Term is upon us bringing with it collections, essay crises and, the dreaded run-up to exams. As if all of that isn’t bad enough we’re suddenly thrust back into a cruel, almost-real world where cleaning, laundry and, cooking are no longer miraculously done for us. On the bright side we are, once more, the […]
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The moon gradually advances, slowly covering the pale disc that is the sun. Some bystanders take a picture as it reaches its final destination at around three quarters. The crowd is not impressed. Far more important than the sky’s somewhat darker grey is the queue. A procession of jostling youngsters fills the pavement, all shoving […]
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It is a fact of life that soulless multinational corporations do terrible things. It is another fact of life that those same soulless multinational corporations also sell their unethically-produced goods at tantalisingly low prices. It is a third fact, equally appalling and yet seemingly equally unavoidable, that life as a student involves being massively skint […]
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In October I moved to Oxford and my life changed forever. At first I tried to fight it. After all, I spent my whole first term of university arrogantly waxing lyrical about the greatest city on Earth to anyone who would listen, and in hindsight to a fair amount of people who weren’t listening as […]
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As term draws to a close and those dreaming spires fade into the distance, most of us soon realise that throughout the term we’ve come to forget quite how beautiful they are; many also realise that they’ve forgotten quite how good, home-cooked food actually looks or, for that matter, tastes. Whether it’s questionable and repetitive […]
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