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Image Description: the BBC logo on a brick building BBC Three was a channel home to many nostalgic shows of our adolescence, from Sun Sea And Suspicious Parents to Gavin and Stacey. After just five years of being kicked off air and existing solely on BBC iPlayer, the channel is returning to television, as early […]
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Image description: white façade with the phrase ‘protect women now’ written on it in purple chalk. Everything about the recent case of Sarah Everard’s abduction and murder is horrifying. The fact that she was kidnapped from streets that she should have been able to walk on safely, by a man employed by the state to […]
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Image Description: a strip of contraceptive pills against a blue background It’s not an exaggeration to say that the contraceptive pill is a landmark medical development of the 20th century – perhaps even one of the most important medications ever invented. From its development in the 1950s, it was very clear what it would mean. […]
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Image Description: a wooden desk with a laptop, mug, notebooks, pen and a pencil case on top of it. A fireplace on the left. Goldman Sachs boss David Solomon has this week announced his intentions to bring back the staff who have worked from home over the pandemic, calling the shift to working from home […]
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Image description: A bridge broken in half, on a yellow background. Every year, the Oxford-Cambridge boat race takes place on the Thames in West London. For my whole life I have lived halfway along the course on the Barnes side, and for as long as I can remember I have been running out to the […]
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Image description: A Gavel on a black background. The Shamima Begum Supreme Court judgment is complicated. It covers a wide range of subjects over a number of appeals and cross-appeals, and there are elements heavily embedded in case-law and statute. This was not a mere political decision. The Supreme Court has unanimously supported the judgment […]
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Image description: The Houston skyline. The past twelve months have been exceptionally terrible for the United States in terms of natural disasters, even disregarding a certain pandemic. The extraordinary freezing temperatures suffered by Texas, which caused state-wide blackouts and dozens of deaths, were only the latest in a series of climate disasters that have tormented […]
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Applications to join the Editorial team of the Oxford Student are now open! All applications consist of a written application and following this you may be called to an interview with the new Editors in Chief for Trinity term 2021, Isaac and Natasha. News Team applicants may also be required to send in an example […]
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Image description: A row of cars waits for a pedestrian to cross the street. On Friday 19th February, the Supreme Court handed down its decision in Uber v Aslam and Others. It held that the group of Uber drivers who had applied to the court were “workers” under the Employment Rights Act 1996. This was […]
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I am a Crankstart scholar, and I am proud of it. For those who are unaware, the Crankstart scholarship is offered to Oxford students from lower household income backgrounds, and comes in the form of financial aid and career development help. Frankly, the support which the university provides for its scholars is pretty much unparalleled; […]
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Image Description: a close-up photo of a condenser microphone against a purple background Picture this: it’s 2008. Britney Spears has just shaved her head! It’s in all the magazines and game show Family Fortunes US runs a round on it. “What has Britney Spears lost this year?” “Her husband! Her hair! Her sanity!” cry the […]
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Image description: A hand holding a smoking blunt, on a green background. The Amsterdam city council recently made headlines with a proposal to ban foreign tourists from visiting the city’s world-famous coffeeshops. These establishments, which use the name as a euphemism for cannabis dispensaries, have long been a part of Amsterdam’s international identity, to the […]
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Image description: Doughnuts on a light blue background. The coronavirus pandemic has destroyed our economies, decimated industries, and cost millions their jobs. While this was taking place, our skies got clearer, our carbon footprints diminished, dolphins returned to the waters of Venice, and we took time to appreciate nature around us – after all, exercise […]
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Image description: A woman in a yellow protective suit puts on a white face mask. “We have failed in our collective capacity”, reported a recent WHO panel, “to create a protective web of human security”. Whilst measuring the comparative effectiveness of every state and territory may be difficult, it is becoming more evident that the […]
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Image Description: four hands raised from the bottom of the photo, each holding up a wad of cash When shopping online, the option to pay the full amount upfront is now often challenged by the alternative of paying in smaller weekly, bi-weekly, or even monthly interest-free instalments, over a set period of time, using the […]
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Image Description: three syringes with colourful liquid inside, in front of a flag of the EU. Vaccines! Our saving grace! Well…maybe not for the European Union. In light of a more protracted approval process when it came to the candidate vaccines themselves, and the recent spat with AstraZeneca, the EU as a whole is far […]
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Image description: A fist in front of the Tunisian flag. Often touted as the sole success story of the Arab Spring, Tunisia remains troubled ten years on. As the birthplace of the Arab Spring, Tunisia is cited as evidence that democracy, the rule of law and peaceful political participation can be established, and even flourish, […]
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Image Description: a line of beer taps in a pub. Those who know me will know that I am partial to a pint or two. But, prior to alcoholic beverages entering my life, pubs already had a place in my heart. Not only do I come from a family of publicans, and lived in a […]
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Image Description: the White House, with an American flag flying for impact. PROPOSITION (Danial Hussain) America is divided. Martin Luther King described this dichotomy. On one side there is an America that pioneers and innovates, a country of optimism, determination and industry. On the other side is an America that feeds on hatred and division, […]
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