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Author: Fiona MacGregor

Jesus gives two fingers to women’s empowerment

24th May 2012Fiona MacGregor

Jesus College JCR voted against a women’s empowerment motion for absolutely no good reason. Like the broken dam allowing the river Isen to flood Isengard, the motion was unlucky enough to be inundated by a deluge of petty, irrelevant or idiotic objections, mixed in with a very few valid but minor technical concerns.  While we […]

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You know you’ve been living in the UK too long when …

24th May 201215th November 2020Fiona MacGregor

When  I cross the street, I immediately look to the right.  When I went home the last time (to  Germany’s Liverpool, Dortmund), I handed my passport to the German custom officer saying “Good Morning”. I got into this apologetic habit of excusing myself whenever I’m in somebody else’s way instead of saying “Dankeschön” when someone […]

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The Ultimate Erasmus-Orgasmus Experience

24th May 201215th November 2020Fiona MacGregor

Laura Cholwill describes the exciting, racy and life-changing reality of a year-abroad experience.

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The Gameboy: the true soundtrack of the 90s

26th April 201215th November 2020Fiona MacGregor

James Marriot sinks up to his eyeballs in nostalgia contemplating the all-pervasive influence of the gameboy on his childhood.

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The 1990s and the Bullingdon Club

26th April 201215th November 2020Fiona MacGregor

Amadea Kelly-Tagliani takes a look at the members who joined the Bullingdon Club in 1992.

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The Happy Superficiality of Plastic Pop, Friends and Tamagotchis. Have We Moved Far Beyond?

26th April 201215th November 2020Fiona MacGregor

Evelyn Schwenner takes a look at the ‘happy superficiality’ of the 90s.

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Beware of the Google-y Eyes!

9th March 2012Fiona MacGregor

Iman Sana Teemul reckons that google has gone too far in violating our privacy.

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Phoney 2012?

9th March 201214th March 2012Fiona MacGregor

Sarah Gashi takes a look at the issues surrounding the Kony2012 video campaign.

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Fun on Sunday or Shun on Every day?

2nd March 20121st March 2012Fiona MacGregor

Matt Reynolds and James Restall debate the worthiness of the News of the World, and in what sense we should ‘welcome’ the Sun on Sunday.

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Wisdom from Without: Sudhir Hazareesingh

1st March 201228th February 2012Fiona MacGregor

Sudhir Hazareesingh outlines the difficulties facing Sarkozy as he attempts to be re-elected.

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Quoth the Master: Finish Him!

1st March 201228th February 2012Fiona MacGregor

Alex Shattocjk ruminates disappointedly on the considerable lack of similarity of the Dawkins-Williams debate to an epic wizard battle.

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Hope on the Horizon?

1st March 201228th February 2012Fiona MacGregor

Sam Iles tells us why we can no longer afford to ignore the plight and potential of the country of Somalia.

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Interview: Jamie Hepburn (SNP MSP)

1st March 20121st March 2012Fiona MacGregor

Fiona Macgregor interviews Jamie Hepburn on Scottish Independence, and the SNP’s other aims and policies.

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The Malcontent on: Distances

23rd February 201222nd February 2012Fiona MacGregor

Anuridh Mathur bemoans the fact that living on Broad Street skews your perspective of distance. Prick.

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Wisdom from Without: Chris Skidmore

23rd February 201223rd February 2012Fiona MacGregor

In our external contribution for sixth week, Chris Skidmore defends the teaching of history in schools.

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Quoth the Master: Homeland Security

23rd February 201223rd February 2012Fiona MacGregor

Alexander Shattock ruminates on the rather sinister, suspicious feeling that seems to be descending on New College.

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Post-grad Tutors: Incompetent Ignorami or Informative Intelligentsia?

23rd February 201223rd February 2012Fiona MacGregor

The debate concerns whether being taught by post-graduate students is a blessing in disguise, or a sad case of the blind leading the blind.

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Obama’s Drone War: War on Terror or War on the Terrorized?

23rd February 201219th September 2012Shozab Raza

Shozab Raza argues that the USA’s war in terror is more harmful to the terrorised than the terrorists.

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Interview: Michael Mansfield

23rd February 201223rd February 2012Fiona MacGregor

barbara Bell interviews Michael Mansfield, QC, regarding his socialist, vegetarianism, and the advice he would give to the barristers of tomorrow.

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