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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 […]
Continue ReadingWhen 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 […]
Continue ReadingLaura Cholwill describes the exciting, racy and life-changing reality of a year-abroad experience.
Continue ReadingJames Marriot sinks up to his eyeballs in nostalgia contemplating the all-pervasive influence of the gameboy on his childhood.
Continue ReadingAmadea Kelly-Tagliani takes a look at the members who joined the Bullingdon Club in 1992.
Continue ReadingEvelyn Schwenner takes a look at the ‘happy superficiality’ of the 90s.
Continue ReadingWell would you look at that. All those smug, witty, overbearing little opinionated teenagers trying so hard to be ironic and sophisticated that they couldn’t find their own opinion with both hemispheres if you drew them a map. As though those twats who write essay-length comments on online articles aren’t enough, it suddenly seems to […]
Continue ReadingIman Sana Teemul reckons that google has gone too far in violating our privacy.
Continue ReadingSarah Gashi takes a look at the issues surrounding the Kony2012 video campaign.
Continue ReadingMatt Reynolds and James Restall debate the worthiness of the News of the World, and in what sense we should ‘welcome’ the Sun on Sunday.
Continue ReadingSudhir Hazareesingh outlines the difficulties facing Sarkozy as he attempts to be re-elected.
Continue ReadingAlex Shattocjk ruminates disappointedly on the considerable lack of similarity of the Dawkins-Williams debate to an epic wizard battle.
Continue ReadingSam Iles tells us why we can no longer afford to ignore the plight and potential of the country of Somalia.
Continue ReadingFiona Macgregor interviews Jamie Hepburn on Scottish Independence, and the SNP’s other aims and policies.
Continue ReadingAnuridh Mathur bemoans the fact that living on Broad Street skews your perspective of distance. Prick.
Continue ReadingIn our external contribution for sixth week, Chris Skidmore defends the teaching of history in schools.
Continue ReadingAlexander Shattock ruminates on the rather sinister, suspicious feeling that seems to be descending on New College.
Continue ReadingThe debate concerns whether being taught by post-graduate students is a blessing in disguise, or a sad case of the blind leading the blind.
Continue ReadingShozab Raza argues that the USA’s war in terror is more harmful to the terrorised than the terrorists.
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