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  • 12th 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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    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

    Musk, money, and a monopoly on influence

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    What is Boris Johnson’s Legacy?

    Blowing Up Ukraine by Yuri Felshtinsky and Michael Stanchev review: an urgent warning for us all

    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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    Debate: Leclerc vs Verstappen

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

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·7th October 2016

Resilience in Japan: Reflections from Onagawa

Sam Sykes
  On the 11th March 2011 at 14:46 JST, an earthquake struck Japan off the Pacific coast of Tohoku, in...
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Life
·15th June 2016

ENO’s Tristan falls short of greatness

William Aslet
The English National Opera, London’s second opera company, is in crisis. Earlier this year, its Music Director, Mark Wigglesworth, quit...
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Entertainment
·5th June 2016

Preview: Splendour

James Riding
Splendour is a play which delights in being enigmatic. Written by Abi Morgan, screenwriter of Suffragette and The Iron Lady,...
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FeaturesFood and Drink
·18th January 2016

Jazz Apples: the real musical fruit

Rob Pepper
There’s a party in my mouth and only one genre of music is playing. Also no-one else is invited, that...
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FeaturesFood and Drink
·18th January 2016

The Unenthusiastic Vegetarian

David Parton
So I’m a vegetarian. Great! But that’s about it really: I don’t eat meat. I’m not particularly excited by the...
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Features
·18th January 2016

Jazz up your January

Jasmine Cameron-Chileshe
When I look back at my Hilary term last year, it was nothing short of dull. The excitement of freshers’...
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FeaturesFood and Drink
·18th January 2016

Not the most tasteful of articles

Rob Pepper
My kitchen in college measures two metres by one metre, barely enough room to swing a decent sized rodent, let...
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Entertainment
·30th October 2015

‘And Breathe…’ is a welcome breath of fresh air

Daniel Haynes
Jayne Wilton has spent the last decade exploring the act of breathing, collaborating variously with particle physicists to capture the...
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Entertainment
·30th October 2015

Thoughts on Tate: Sensorium

Sam Sykes
As I stand in the queue for the Tate’s multisensory experiment, I feel a mixture of exhilaration and apprehension. I...
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Entertainment
·11th June 2015

Sherlock Holmes: has the great detective still got it?

Emma-Jane Hampsheir-Gill
Although I was asked to write on a fictional character I secretly wish was real, I unashamedly confess that not...
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Entertainment
·11th June 2015

Treasures from afar: The Communist Manifesto

William Shaw
A few months ago I was browsing the Sunday Times bestseller lists, and was shocked to discover that The Communist...
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Entertainment
·7th May 2015

David Nicholls: “I wanted to write something a bit more grown-up”

William Shaw
Even with his last book now six years in the past, David Nicholls has been keeping busy. Since the publication...
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Entertainment
·7th May 2015

Treasures from afar: Atta Troll by Heinrich Heine

Marcus Li
A funny German writer? What on earth do you mean? Yes, but that is why I fell in love with...
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Entertainment
·7th May 2015

Review: Sonia Delaunay at the Tate Modern

Alexander Hartley
Sonia Delaunay’s work crackles with the electric charge of modernity. Hers is a world of garish streetlights, Paris ballrooms, high-speed...
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Entertainment
·7th May 2015

Emin’s bed returns to the Tate

Francesca Rogers
Tracey Emin’s art has brought her notoriety in the form of violently divided opinion: she is regarded as provocative, attention-seeking,...
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Entertainment
·1st May 2015

Treasures from afar: Banana Yoshimoto

William Shaw
Kitchen, the English-language debut of Japanese writer Banana Yoshimoto, like the most of the books I buy these days (perpetually...
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Entertainment
·1st May 2015

Everything but the kitchen sink

Claudia Zwar
Linda Nochlin, in her 1988 book Women, Art and Power and Other Essays, asks, “Why are there no great female...
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EntertainmentLife
·12th April 2015

Review: HUG

Samantha Spooner
A cappella is a genre that has been much in vogue recently, most notably with the success of the American musical...
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Entertainment
·5th April 2015

The body beautiful in ancient Greece

Samantha Spooner
As I stumble out of the urban swirl, through the usual madding crowds of tourists, into the British Museum’s new...
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