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Becky Howe of TeamABC has won the position of OUSU President with 1343 votes, defeating rivals Will Obeney, of For Oxford and independent candidate Adam Roberts. Howe was previously JCR President of Pembroke College and ran on a platform of promoting a “happy, healthy and cohesive Oxford.” Cat Jones won a four way race with […]
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A debate organised by anti-abortion group, Oxford Students For Life, has provoked criticism from students. OSFL advertised the event, saying: “Last year in Britain, over 185,000 abortions were carried out. What does this say about our national culture? Is it a sign of equality, or does it suggest we treat human life carelessly? Joining OSFL […]
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Oxford banking and financial services society CapitOx has been thrown into disarray after the ‘reply all’ feature on one of its mailing lists was exploited to add all subscribers to the mailing list of UKIP, One Direction, the Young Communist League and lingerie suppliers Bravissimo and Pepperberry. Subscribers received emails from the United Kingdom Independence […]
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Jung Chang the author best known for her autobiographical work Wild Swans speaks to Harriet Fry about her new biography of the Empress Dowager Cixi, the banning of her books in China and the danger of history to a communist regime. What inspired you to write about the Empress Dowager in particular? I first got […]
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Becky Howe, Will Obeney and Adam Roberts have all announced their candidacy for OUSU President. “Joke candidate” Sam Wiseman originally nominated but pulled out. Wiseman emailed RO Martine Wauben, saying: “I’d like to withdraw my candidacy please. Drunken manifesto writing was a poor idea. Sensible friends have helped me to the conclusion that my running […]
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The Union’s standing committee has recommended a private business motion proposed by President Mayank Banerjee to fundamentally overhaul elections. The motion allows open campaigning, the formation of slates and the introduction of Re Open Nominations as an option on the ballot papers, in a series of wide ranging reforms to its termly elections, the OxStu […]
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Trigger warning: discussion of transphobia, sexual violence and murder; exploration of “trans-exclusionary radical feminist” ideology On the 20th of November, trans people will light candles and read the names of the people in our community that have been murdered. Last year we heard names like Evon Young, a 23 year old that was taken into […]
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The committee for the upcoming St John’s Gender Equality Festival have released a statement apologising for the transphobic content of an article in the festival zine, leading to the resignation of three committee members who refused to add their names to the apology. The article in question, written by Magdalen College LGBTQ rep Elsa Field, […]
Continue ReadingWe get it: time’s short, Super Noodles swiftly get boring and choosing where to eat out with your hard earned student loan is an unwelcome stress for all of us. It’s a well known fact that easy accessibility to cheap but tasty food is a student’s basic right, and the best place to exercise this […]
Continue ReadingMy adventures skiing this year filled me with a sense of obligation. I, after my fourth Alpine attempt, have an obligation to share with the rest of you poor, unsuspecting creatures (those yet to experience le Ski) the fact that skiing is not like it is in the Hollywood films, or the travel brochures, or […]
Continue ReadingA church bell rings through the dark village of Campiello, a hamlet in the north of Spain. Pilgrims quietly move from their bunks, stow away sleeping bags and sink into their boots. From the old bed-filled barn it is a short walk to the village bar where the hostel owner serves a breakfast of coffee […]
Continue ReadingDarjeeling, tucked away in a north-eastern corner of India, doesn’t always feature on the traveller’s itinerary as it is slightly out of the way of the main tourist route further into the north-eastern Indian states of Assam. As a destination in itself, however, it is a refreshing break from the heat of India’s plains and […]
Continue ReadingBudapest is a fabulous city and due to overconfidence in our internal compasses, which frequently led us to explore more than first intended, we feel fully qualified to review the whole of it. Budapest is kind of two cities in one; Buda on one side of the Danube, the (mostly) old settlement and Pest on […]
Continue ReadingI had both heard of Jamie Oliver and knew that St Catz does not serve dinner on Sunday evenings, so instead of the usual Dominoes drop off, I went for a meal at Jamie’s Italian. This place had come up in conversation with a friend a while ago, and received a tentatively positive review: ‘yeah, […]
Continue ReadingKarl Lagerfeld’s new shop opened in Regent Street last week. Inside the changing rooms customers would find something new. State of the art iPads were installed into the mirrors, allowing shoppers to take a ‘selfie,’ of themselves in the outfit they were trying on, and send it to their friends. This action combined with the […]
Continue ReadingAt Oxford I sometimes feel as though there are things that have to be “ticked off”. You have to go out twice a week, pull more ergs than anyone else and obviously obtain a First, Blue or Spouse. Especially in Western society, and especially at university, life can be a treadmill of endless striving, ramping […]
Continue ReadingMy first up-close view of depression was from the plastic seat of my sixth-form classroom. Psychology IB offered me a bullet-point guide to what this mental illness involved: mood, sleep, appetite etcetera. Although this clinical course did give an insight into the nature of the condition, my true understanding of it was still somewhat stinted […]
Continue Reading“Sooo…. what did you get?” Cue my fellow course mate, whose burning curiosity about my Prelims performance proved too much for more than two and a half days of tactful discretion on Facebook chat. Actually no, scratch that – because truth be told I’m censoring his twattiness. To quote, what he said instead was this: […]
Continue ReadingLast week something miraculous happened. For most women, the arrival of your period isn’t really a jumping-for-joy occasion, despite what tampon manufacturers would have us believe. Aside for a lucky few, there’s no such thing as a happy period, and those few days every month are best spent in the company of a hot water […]
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