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  • 10th August 2022
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    UK Culture Secretary grants Oriel Rhodes Plaque ‘Listed Status’

    Can the rise and fall of Boris Johnson offer any lessons on leadership?

    Applications to OxStu MT22 Senior Editorial Team are now open!

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    A Student Abroad: How to Stay Safe

    La Barque Bleue by Claude Monet. The painting depicts two women on a boat engaged in communication.

    An ethic of communication in academic contexts

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    Why Women’s Football Matters

    Reallocation report: Interviews with St. Benet’s students

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    What is Boris Johnson’s Legacy?

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    Way Out Yonder: Understanding ‘Where the Crawdads Sing’ before You See the Movie

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    In Conversation with Author and Journalist Elizabeth Day

    Matt Robyns-Landricombe, President of the Right for Education Oxford.

    Balliol Politics Don, Sudhir Hazareesingh: Don’t De-Colonise the Curriculum, EXPAND It

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    Conservative Calamari: the Tories take Squid Game

    SUNDAY ROAST: THE HOTTEST STATISTICS OF THE YEAR

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    New assault from nature: Hepatitis in children

    Desalination on demand

    Talking Fungi

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    A photograph of a German cockroach.

    Changing cockroach behaviours: the implications of human action

    Agatha Gutierrez Echenique shares some pictures of his sock knitting for his sustainable hobby feature.

    Sustainable Hobby Feature: Knitting

    A person searching through a vintage clothing rack –  perhaps in search of formal clothes!

    A Definitive Guide to Second Hand Formal Clothes

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    Why Women’s Football Matters

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    dates of our lives

    Dates of Our Lives: A break in and a broken heart

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    Dan The Man: On Empathy

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Entertainment
·4th March 2014

Review: Replay

Daniel Bottiglieri
✮✮✮ In the first 10 minutes, I became terribly worried that I would be unable to write a review. I...
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Entertainment
·4th March 2014

Big Brass, big laughs

Saskia Mair
✮✮✮✮ The cast of Big Brass initially makes a big joke about being amateur. The set of their Pilch studio...
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Entertainment
·4th March 2014

‘A Night to Remember’ isn’t a lie

Madeleine Perham
✮✮✮✮ Chutney and Chips came to reinvent the canon, to shake up Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream with a cocktail...
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Entertainment
·2nd March 2014

Almost a great Gatsby

Fay Watson
✮✮✮ Set in the height of the roaring twenties, The Great Gatsby has always been a favourite for adaptations in...
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Entertainment
·2nd March 2014

Not an absurdly good night

Harriet Fry
✮✮✮ ‘A Night of the Absurd’ may not be the most comforting way to spend an evening but the experience...
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Entertainment
·27th February 2014

6th week: Winging It

F.D. Levin
GODS Recently interviewed in this section, Michael Grandage’s West End season has just picked up 4 WhatsOnStage awards, including ‘Best Director’...
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Entertainment
·25th February 2014

Glitz at the Ritz: Semi-Monde has the audience roaring with laughter

Charanpreet Khaira
✮✮✮✮ Noel Coward’s Semi-Monde running at the Oxford Playhouse this week, is a delightful romp through the opulence and extravagance...
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Entertainment
·25th February 2014

Review: Chess at St John’s

James Waddell
✮✮✮ It’s the late 1980s, Cold War tensions are running high, and chess grandmasters “The American” in all-white and “The...
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Entertainment
·24th February 2014

Family Values gets a glowing Revue

Emily Holman
The Hilary Revue Burton Taylor Studio 4th week ✮✮✮✮✮ Hahahahahahaha. I wish that could be my review. This is funny....
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Entertainment
·22nd February 2014

Sweeney Todd makes the cut

Fred Shan
✮✮✮✮ 1/2 Stephen Sondheim’s musical Sweeney Todd tells the tale of a deranged barber on his quest for revenge; together...
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Entertainment
·20th February 2014

Will LMH’s Gatsby deserve to be called Great?

Tucker Cholvin
There’s no denying that The Great Gatsby is enjoying more popularity than it ever has since its publication. The Baz...
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Entertainment
·20th February 2014

The Impish humour stays forever young

Rebecca Henderson
The Imps 10th Anniversary The New Theatre 13 February ✮✮✮✮✮ I talked to one of the newest IMPs, Francessca Evans, a...
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Entertainment
·20th February 2014

New Oxford comedy troupe is bold as Big Brass

The Big Brass
When The Oxford Student first asked me to interview the writers and performers behind Big Brass, a new sketch comedy...
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Entertainment
·16th February 2014

Sir Gawain pulls our strings

Srishti Nirula
✮✮✮✮ Cardboard Menagerie present Simon Corble’s much revised adaptation of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight at the Keble O’Reilly...
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Entertainment
·6th February 2014

Chess makes a play for our hearts

Morgan Harries
St John’s are nice guys. What is so odd about this production of Chess is the contrast between the Cold-War-chess-match-turned-love-triangle...
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Entertainment
·6th February 2014

Review: 12 Angry Women at the Oxford Union

Costanza Bertoni
C**t. I feel my toes curl at the sheer aggressiveness of those four letters. It is one of those insults...
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Entertainment
·6th February 2014

The Oxford Imps have their cake and you eat it

Elliot Chester
Smiles pinned on their faces and chocolate cupcakes raised aloft, the circle of twentysomethings in matching shirts posed for photo...
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Entertainment
·31st January 2014

Winging It: 2nd week

F.D. Levin
Gods This column (again) whose deep critical insights have attracted coverage on a national scale. This week’s Guardian online theatre...
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Entertainment
·31st January 2014

Three cheers for comedy: Huzzah Comedy Night at the Jericho Tavern

Frazier Bailey
Huz·zah (hə-zä′) interj: Used to express used to approval or delight Despite this being its fifth installment in Oxford, I knew...
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