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Author: Nat Rachman

Why Democrats can feel cautiously optimistic about 2020

17th November 201818th December 2018Nat Rachman

Image Credit: Flikr On Tuesday 6th November, I had something of a heavy night. I stayed up drinking into the small hours of the morning, became quite emotional and then incoherent, before stumbling into bed drunk and exhausted at 3am. This was not, however, the fallout from a standard student club night, but the far […]

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The media’s scrutiny surrounding Oxbridge has gone too far

16th November 201818th December 2018Emilia Jane

Image Credit: Wikipedia. Earlier this term, The Daily Mail published an article headlining ‘Bottom’s up! Oxford University students dance in the street as they party into the night for Freshers’ Week’. On first glance, this provided me with much amusement as I scrolled through the photographs looking to see if I anyone I knew had […]

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“Time to start a new chapter”:  uncertainty looms as the Merkel era comes to an end 

16th November 201818th December 2018Maria Kostylew

Image Credit: Wikipedia (CC-BY-SA-3.0) “It is time to start a new chapter” declared Angela Merkel, announcing her decision not to run for re-election as chancellor in 2021 and to stand down as chair of the centre-right CDU at the party’s conference in December. A chancellor for 13 years and a CDU chairwoman since 2000, Merkel […]

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The pressing case for a “people’s vote”

12th November 201818th December 2018Steffan Williams

Image Credit: (CC-BY-SA-4.0) It is often the case that Oxford students are shielded from events happening elsewhere in the world. We’re all guilty of becoming stuck in the ‘Oxford bubble’ to an extent, and in these turbulent times one is tempted to ignore Brexit as simply another thing to which we here in Oxford will […]

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The media’s demonisation of Oxbridge is needlessly harming access

19th October 2018Daniella Cugini

Image Credit: Tejvan Pettinger (CC-BY-2.0) What do newspapers think we do all day? If you got all your information about Oxford and Cambridge from mainstream UK media, you’d be forgiven for thinking they were shadowy, elite organisations in which the main things students do are attend balls in exquisite black tie, walk down streets in academic […]

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Labour’s anti-semitism problem brings shame to the Party

17th August 201817th August 2018William Evans

‘You cannot pursue peace by a cycle of violence, the only way you can pursue peace is by a cycle of dialogue’. Wise words indeed, spoken by Jeremy Corbyn. To judge him by his own words, Corbyn’s record is one of abject failure. His management of Labour’s problem with anti-semitism has been shocking and wilfully […]

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Why Oxford is not doing enough to improve access

10th June 201813th June 2018Nikita Khandwala and Kyra Leyland

We are two undergraduate students studying at Hertford College, Oxford, both heavily involved in the Widening Participation sphere within and outside of the University. With one of us having been educated at a state comprehensive and the other coming from a BAME background, we were struck by the results of the Undergraduate Admissions Report and […]

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Why politicians need to talk about NHS reform

9th March 2018Adithi Shenava

The NHS is like a sick dog. The doctor has told you that it could be time to say goodbye, but you cannot bring yourself to accept it. You keep reminding yourself about all the wonderful memories you shared together, and you’re certain that need not come to an end. You insist that you can […]

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International Women’s Day: China’s #MeToo

8th March 2018Edwin Audland

October 2017 was a month that certainly took the world by storm. It was a month in which a popular social media tag revealed the full magnitude of a scandal that shook society to its core. In the aftermath of the New York Times’ illuminating investigation into widespread accusations against film producer Harvey Weinstein, few […]

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Gavin Grimm: the case for gender neutral toilets

6th March 201810th March 2018Sophie Kilminster

My college, Somerville, was recently in the national press for our initial failure, and then (to use a favourite phrase!) U-turn on the matter of gender neutral toilets. So when I saw Gavin Grimm was speaking at the Union, I knew I had to go. Grimm made headlines in the US and beyond when he […]

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The politics of Brexit remains ambiguous and divided

4th March 2018Benedict Smith

Timid and cowering. Get in line or get out. A grave error. He has to go. When Philip Hammond voiced his hope that any changes in the UK’s relationship with the EU would be “very modest”, the reaction from the Conservative backbenches was anything but. The furious and wearisomely predictable responses to the Chancellor’s Davos […]

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The Church of England should stand up for Bishop Bell

25th February 2018Jack O’Grady

A short biography of George Bell, who had been Bishop of Chichester for 27 years when he died in 1958, begins by acknowledging a recurring pattern regarding the reputation of notable people. It points out that after such people die, their reputations are often reshaped and defamed by harsh criticism not voiced during their lifetimes […]

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Tech autocracy: how to end digital dependency

24th February 201824th February 2018Isabel Woodford

2018 has gotten off to a shaky start for the world’s tech giants. The major players in Silicon Valley have come under synchronised public scrutiny; for once, not about the quality of their products, but rather for their addictive nature. Last month, Apple’s biggest investors put pressure on the company to address increasing iPhone usage […]

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The President’s Club fiasco shows a need for change

21st February 2018Adithi Shenava

I think it’s fair to say that we are no longer shocked. But we are definitely repulsed, outraged and, most of all, exhausted. How many stories of outright misogyny must we hear before something changes? This year’s annual President’s Club gala charity dinner was no different to the other thirty-three, except for the attendance of […]

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Theresa May is in crisis, but she isn’t finished yet

20th February 2018Angus Brown

Another week, another backbench revolt which threatens to topple Theresa May’s precarious minority government. At this point, it’s all a little stale; a month doesn’t go by without some kind of crisis befalling the current government, with Brexiteers in revolt over anything from the most minute policy differences to fundamental philosophical disagreements (this time sees […]

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Why YouTube must act to tackle ‘undesirable’ content

10th February 2018Cherelle Malongo

The start of 2018 was greeted by a scandal that quickly received international condemnation. Logan Paul, a former vine star turned YouTuber, had uploaded a video as part of his Japan tour exploring the infamous Aokigahara ‘suicide’ forest, in which he stumbles upon a recently deceased individual. Filming at close proximity to the corpse, he […]

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Scandal and bravado: UKIP’s eleventh hour

9th February 2018Nat Rachman

UKIP has been having a hard time post-Brexit. Of course, there’s the ongoing crisis with current leader Henry Bolton and his racist girlfriend, who sent texts abusing Meghan Markle and the victims of Grenfell. Two steps back in leadership and we reach Paul Nuttall, a man who incompetently lied about having a non-existent PhD and […]

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Why Virgin’s Daily Mail ban is hopelessly naive

2nd February 2018Jack O’Grady

I have never checked, but it is a safe bet to assume that Virgin Trains do not sell copies of Poultry World, the global voice of egg enthusiasts and chicken experts. Annoyingly, they probably do not sell ‘The Gudgeon’ either, a newsletter from my hometown of Bradford on Avon, which includes regular updates from the […]

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The Democrats’ US govt shutdown: a tactical mistake

2nd February 2018Angus Brown

It is hard not to be sympathetic to the Democrats in their current congressional battle. They are fighting a Republican Party unwilling to grant the same rights to some American citizens as it does to others, solely because their parents entered the country illegally. Regardless of one’s views on immigration, we should all treat immigrants […]

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