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“I think you just need to eat,” This is what a GP at the Jericho Health Centre said to me when I told him I was considering killing myself, “Anti-depressants work better with food.” This occurred summer 2016, following a tumultuous Trinity term that included family illness, harassment and domestic assault, followed by final exams […]
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After the election I spoke over the phone with a friend of mine—a teacher at a progressive school in a progressive city in the U.S. She told me of the morning after, when all the faculty arrived early for a last-minute gathering. Their task: to figure out how to speak to children about the election […]
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Last week, an intriguing newsflash on Indian national television about an unplanned PM Modi address was followed by an announcement that left the country flabbergasted. Without warning, the Indian government decided to scrap the 500 Rupee (just under £6) and 1000 Rupee (just under £12) bills in a bid to clamp down on “black money” […]
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Mark Carney has decided to stick around till 2019; he will renew his contract, but not complete a whole second term. While many are saddened by his departure, seeing as he is hailed as one of the best in the business, others are getting out the bunting and cake to celebrate – particularly the Brexiteers […]
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Most hostile commentators have laid the blame at the feet of white, working class Americans who feel they have been left behind by globalization; and have directed equally fierce criticism at a Democratic establishment which made them feel unwanted. Undoubtedly there is force in this argument, but it does not explain why millions of well-off […]
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With the EU referendum and the rise of Donald Trump, this year has been a worrying portent of a radically right-wing future for Britain and the USA. The refugee crisis and the recent anti-immigration vote in Hungary suggest that it is a phenomenon which is reverberating around the world. As a liberal person wary of […]
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So far this year, there have been 91 suicides in UK prisons, and 278 deaths in total. These figures already exceed their counterparts of 88 and 256 for the whole of 2015. Recently, the rates of death and assault in prisons have been rising. The most obvious reason for this is a deterioration in the […]
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Your forerunners tend to paint you a deceptively rosy picture of Matriculation; they promise a day of utterly drunken bliss in which the sub fusc that you supposedly ironically don later wins you a Facebook profile picture with an unprecedented number of likes. What they conveniently forget to warn you of is that you will […]
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On November 9th this year, tens of millions of Americans will wake up feeling absolutely indifferent to the result of their presidential election. Polling indicates currently that between 10 and 20 percent of the US electorate will vote for alternative candidates while the number not voting at all is expected to be well above the […]
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Theresa May’s flagship education policy has incited a firestorm of criticism from all sides of the political spectrum, even within her own party. Whilst I believe that education is facing more pressing issues such as swelling class sizes; high teacher drop-out rates and a shortfall of primary school places; Grammar schools have an important role […]
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Theresa May’s controversial decision to lift the ban on the opening of new grammar schools has been buoyed up by claims that selective school systems aid social mobility. In a country where privately educated young people consistently obtain a disproportionately high number of places at top universities compared to the state-educated majority, it is clear […]
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My initial reaction to the news that Oxford had topped the Timed Higher Education World University Rankings was a thoroughly mature one. Punching the air and proudly texting my parents, “Look, I’m so clever”, and the subsequent embarrassed retraction, “But if I’m there, Oxford surely can’t be that great”, are clearly indicative of a great […]
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