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I am not the fashion police. I am not even the fashion civil service. I am, at the very best, some minor local government body of fashion; a member of the parish style council, maybe. But even in from this lowly vantage point, I feel obliged to offer some advice to the general populace of […]
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Image Description: Elizabeth Warren speaking at event. At what point does a company seem more like a country? In San Francisco in 1932, Franklin Delano Roosevelt presented his vision of America during his presidential campaign in a speech now known as the Commonwealth Club Address. He noted that concentrations of economic power were not to […]
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Image description: Rainbow flags waving at Pride. The decision of Parkfield Community School (in Alum Rock, Birmingham) to indefinitely suspend its teaching of the ‘No Outsiders’ programme––a part of the curriculum which teaches inclusion and diversity––is a saddening step back in the fight for equality. In capitulating to the protesters outside its gates, the school […]
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What do you think should be done about the cuts in music education? Should we let music as a discipline die out? What did you enjoy about music classes at school? Did you find them valuable? In truth, I am writing this because in the pitch for this article a particular question angered me: Should […]
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On February 27, 2019, US President Donald Trump and North Korean Chairman Kim Jung Un met at the Metropole Hotel in Hanoi, Vietnam. Although many hoped that the Vietnam summit would bring some sort of tangible agreement or accord between the two states, the summit was abruptly cut short on its second day- before the […]
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Image Description: Sajid Javid, UK Home Secretary. The decision to revoke Shamima Begum’s citizenship is deeply disappointing. First and foremost, we should not forget that she was only fifteen-years old when she left for ISIS. She is a victim of grooming by a violent and misogynistic cult, and has clearly been psychologically traumatised by her […]
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William Wilberforce once said, “You may choose to look the other way but you can never say again that you did not know”. Wilberforce vehemently opposed the Vagrancy Act of 1824, which criminalises the very existence of homeless people by making it an offence to sleep rough or beg. It is striking that a law […]
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John McDonnell, Labour’s Shadow Chancellor, recently sparked outrage by describing Winston Churchill as a “villain” because of his role in the Tonypandy riots of 1910. However, is it really true that Churchill sent in the military to crush the strike, or is the truth more complicated? In the autumn of 1910 there was a strike […]
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Imagine for a moment that it’s Christmas eve, and you’re out making rounds for a delivery company. You should be at home but you’re out in the streets, because last week your motorcycle was stolen and you couldn’t get compensation from the company, so you’ve got to work double to pay for it. Worst of […]
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Image description: sitting president Muhammadu Buhari Last week, millions of Nigerians made their way from across the country to vote in the election scheduled for Saturday 16th February, only to be informed, a mere five hours before the polls were set to open, that it has been postponed by a week. This is not the first […]
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Given the already saturated nature of the Democratic primaries, what really matters is to be able to stand out from the crowd. After all, that was what Donald Trump managed to do successfully in the 2016 Republican primaries, marking a break not just in his political positions – as far as they could be discerned […]
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Kerry McCarthy is the Labour MP for Bristol East and has had her seat since 2005. She has been vegan for over 25 years and campaigns tirelessly for ethical improvement and better ecological sustainability as well as national health issues. She kindly invited me to Portcullis House in Westminster where she shared her own reasons […]
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One thing must be said before any discussion of the 2020 US presidential election can be entered into: it is not just about defeating Trump. It is also about rebuilding a nation in decline. Given this, Democratic hopefuls for 2020 must not only prove they can defeat one of the most ineffective and unpopular presidents […]
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How can something like the possibility of a new centrist party in Britain, something which we are told again and again would be a doomed and counterproductive project, capture the political imagination (and perhaps the hope) of a segment of our MPs, and of the country at large? It is easy to rule out the […]
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Recently the UK government offered Nissan up to £80m to remain in the UK and continue to produce vehicles in their Sunderland plant, where it currently employs roughly 7,000 people. Government subsidies aren’t in themselves unusual – they ensure that significant amounts of innovation and production can take place in a number of sectors, or […]
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Lucas Bertholdi-Saad is Oxford SU’s Vice-President for Access & Academic Affairs. It seems there is an article about access to Oxford every week in the OxStu – but you don’t need the evidence from the student press to tell us that students at Oxford are passionate about access and widening participation. Students help colleges and […]
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The World Economic Forum, held every year in Davos, Switzerland, usually passes without much notice as the world’s economic and political establishment goes about mingling together about how impactful their philanthropy really is and exactly how committed they are to “improving the state of the world” one of their many self-aggrandising mottoes. However, this year […]
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We’re all familiar with the usual discourse surrounding Oxbridge and state school admissions – Oxford needs to tackle its access problem urgently. Andrew Adonis, Labour peer and former Transport Secretary, has recently pitched a brand-new suggestion: opening new colleges aimed solely at applicants from state school backgrounds. In January, Adonis stated in The Guardian that […]
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Imagine the scene. The Oxford Union, 17th January, around 9pm. The motion to be debated: “This House believes that the Arab world has failed the Palestinian people”. A speaker for the opposition rises, argues we should reject it because it wrongly presupposes a moral obligation. The “problem” of the Palestinians was forced upon the Arab […]
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