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Image description: Notre Dame Cathedral, Paris. Cathedrals dominate the skylines of most English towns and cities. Wonders of the medieval world, they are one of the most impressive reminders of “the Dark Ages”. They were constructed when most people would have lived in wooden hovels, which makes them the more remarkable. Despite that, modern attitudes […]
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Image description: Vince Cable, leader of the Liberal Democrats Famously dubbed the biggest electoral event that would definitely happen this year, the local elections have attracted a surprising homogeneity among the commentariat and wider media. “The Liberal Democrats are back.” I don’t know for how many hours I saw this spattered across Twitter in smug, […]
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Image description: Punting, a traditional student activity at both Oxford and Cambridge Universities. An article published yesterday by Nicola Woodcock, Education Correspondent at The Times commented on the frustration felt by parents of fee-paying students in regards to a decline in admission of private school students to Oxbridge. According to The Times, Anthony Wallersteiner, head […]
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Image description: Vox signpost Last Sunday (29th April) saw Spain’s third general election since late 2015 and the previously incumbent majority party – the Socialists (Partido Socialista Obrero Español, or PSOE) – came out on top. This is all the more surprising for the circumstances under which this call to the ballot box took place. […]
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Image description: Oxford students in sub fusc outside Exam Schools. Like every good Oxford student, I spent my Hilary term holidays panicking about what was going to happen in Trinity. Collections were the immediate threat, but really only a foreshock before the destabilising earthquake of prelims. Second years and particularly third years struggling with their […]
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Image Description: Leicester town hall, one of the mayoralties contested in the election The 2019 UK local elections have presented voters, election-watchers and newspaper pundits with an interesting set of results to pore over: from over 248 councils electing councillors on Thursday, the Conservatives have lost over 1200 councillors, with the main beneficiaries being the […]
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Image description: Students take part in traditional post-exam trashing celebrations The University is set to reintroduce the ‘What a Waste’ campaign first launched last year to discourage students from their current trashing practices. The campaign highlights the social, environmental and financial impact of the traditional post-exam celebrations. Many students are probably not aware that we are, […]
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Image description: Marlinksy Palace is the official ceremonial residence of the Ukrainian president. “Fake news”, the moniker applied to news stories of dubious accuracy and generally distributed with an eye to slander, has been a hot topic since Donald J. Trump was elected president of the US in 2016. The prevailing feeling has been that nefarious […]
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Image description:Police in Kashmir confronting violent protestors, December 2018 Few borders are as heavily militarised as the Line of Control, which separates Indian-controlled Jammu and Kashmir and Pakistan’s Gilgit-Baltistan. The border sees frequent shelling and exchanges of fire between paramilitaries, killing almost 600 people and maiming hundreds more since 2018. It is a physical testament […]
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Image description: Pete Buttigieg on a rainbow background. In current polling for the democratic presidential primary, three names stand at the top. The first two, Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders, have a natural advantage in this crowded race, having pre-established national profiles and near universal name recognition. The third, however, is a surprise. Unlike most of […]
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Image description: Several people on mobile phones. The recent call for age restrictions on likes and streaks on Facebook and Snapchat is long overdue, but does not go far enough. Restrictions should not discriminate; people of all ages should be protected from the psychological damage caused by likes, streaks and other online ‘reward’ mechanisms used by […]
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Image description: Mice subjected to animal testing In the week leading up to World Day for Animals in Laboratories, held on the 24th April, it is arguable that public calls for the end of animal testing has never been greater; with a significant increase in vegetarianism and veganism, as well as the growth of animal rights […]
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Image description: A poster held up during the recent protests in Sudan On Thursday 11th April 2019 the President of Sudan, Omar Al-Bashir, was removed from office by a military coup. These leaders were taking advantage of the mass protests in the country’s capital, Khartoum, which began in December 2018. The protests were initially in response […]
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Image Description: Belfast during the Troubles, 1970-2 (Kaspar C) On Thursday evening, riots broke out in Mulroy Park and Galliagh areas in Derry in Northern Ireland. Earlier that evening, police vans had entered the area to investigate dissident republicans believed to be planning attacks in the city. As the riots escalated to include use of […]
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Image Description: UN Secretary-General António Guterres, who has called for a World Climate Summit scheduled for September 2019 Greta Thunberg, the sixteen-year-old Swedish student who inspired the recent climate marches, has, without a doubt, furthered the cause of climate change. The passionate response from hundreds of thousands of young people is certainly encouraging as to […]
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The University is correct to privilege due process amongst calls for revocation – Jacob Harrison Brunei’s new penal code, which went into effect on the 3rd April this year, imposes the penalty of death by stoning for the acts of anal sex, extramarital sex and abortion. Without doubt, the code is abhorrent, regressive and should […]
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It is likely that you saw something of the climate strikes on social media, whether that was a post encouraging you to attend or simply a picture of one of the protests that took place around the world on 15 March. These protests, with their condemnation of inaction on climate change, caught the public eye […]
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This weekend at the 180th Grand National, three horses died at Aintree, while spectators and an estimated global audience of 600 million watched on. With a fatality for each day of the three-day event, social media was quick to condemn the deaths. Members of the public and several celebrities vocalised their concern and called for […]
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As a wearer and lover of stash, I thought I would respond to an article, published by the OxStu, in which my beloved stash faced the opprobrium of a fellow student who sadly misses the point of stash altogether. I proudly admit to owning a plethora of different articles of stash, which includes a puffer jacket, […]
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