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Image description: London skyline on an overcast day On coming to power in 2019, Boris Johnson promised both the Conservative party and the country as a whole that his vision would ensure a ‘global Britain’. It drew on the rhetoric that has kept Johnson relevant over the course of his complex political career. Some would […]
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Image description: The text ‘Perikatan Nasional’ in white, on a blue background, with a rip going through the middle of the picture. Political paradigms and narratives represent the different forms of worldview within any particular society. These are the underlying assumptions that permeate political discourse and guide political action, consciously or otherwise. Much of the […]
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Image description: A phone camera, cast in a red light. Cw: Sexual abuse Let’s begin with a story. Not from the last decade, but from last week. A woman in Italy was fired from her job as a school teacher when her ex-partner circulated her private sexual photos which eventually reached students’ parents, despite the […]
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Image description: The flag of the United States on the left, and the Union Flag on the right with a black and white handshake in the foreground The shadow on Boris Johnson’s congratulatory tweet to Joe Biden reflected the reality that the 2020 US presidential election has been close, and bitterly-fought to the last ballot. […]
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Image description: flag of the United States of America against a blue sky. Jamie Slagel: a clear win for Biden It’s not a take I want to air publicly for fear of jinxing it, but my prediction is simple: Biden is going to wipe the floor with Trump. I know, it’s hardly a popular belief. […]
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Image description: Explosion cloud of a nuclear weapons test in Nevada, 1951 “Building new bombers and submarines is not restocking a shelf at Tesco” Paul Janiczek, formerly of the Bureau of Arms Control, Verification and Compliance, the US Department of State, speaking exclusively to The Oxford Student A new nuclear treaty on the cards […]
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Image description: excerpt from map showing Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Nagorno-Karabakh, with areas of clash in September coloured red. When the World Health Organisation declared Covid-19 a pandemic on 11th March, many commentators predicted a decrease in war as challenging times changed priorities. Certain surveys have supported this. The ACLED (Armed Conflict Location and Event Data) […]
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Image Description: Amir’s painting featured at an Exhibition at York University (1998). From left to right: Case Ootes, Toronto Deputy Mayor; Amir Pichhadze, Artist; and, Dr. Lorna Marsden, York University President. In 1995, the Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin participated in an anti-violence rally that supported the Oslo peace process. At this rally, Rabin was […]
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Image description: Trump is shown with a black mask on in the main picture; an additional picture shows Trump with Melania, without masks and smiling Even among a competitive field, the 2020 American Presidential Election has been especially turbulent. The summer saw the country rocked by protests demanding justice for the deaths of George Floyd […]
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Image description: a fishing boat on choppy seas October 15th was Boris Johnson’s self-imposed deadline for talks with the EU. In September, the Prime Minister said that it would be time for both sides to “accept it and move on” if this date passed without meaningful agreement. Yet, trade agreements are fiddly things, and politicians […]
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Image description: A drawing of the Statue of Liberty and some people arriving to America by boat. The liberalism I’m interested in isn’t the conventional, American sense of ‘liberal’ – but the older and classical variety. It’s the liberalism that warns against the excesses of state authority and champions civil liberties, constitutionalism and the rule […]
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Image description: Foreign Affairs Minister Luigi Di Maio (on the left) and the leader of the Lega Matteo Salvini (on the right) The democratic process has been under severe attack in numerous countries, especially with Donald Trump recently refusing to commit to a peaceful handover of power if Biden were to win in November. However, […]
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Image description: a Jewish Yamaka against a black background. In recent days, disturbing reports have come out of war-torn Yemen. That is nothing new. These days, it is strange for a report from Yemen not to be disturbing. Yet this recent news will probably go unreported in the West. Because the subject of this news […]
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Image Description: Dramatic depiction of the Eiffel Tower and the Seine in an overcast day. In 2017, France defied the populist wave by choosing centrist banker Emmanuel Macron instead of the far-Right’s Marine Le Pen by a significant margin. Pundits in the English-speaking world lauded the French for their prudence. After Brexit and Trump, the […]
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Image description: K.K. Shailaja, Kerala’s health minister, smiling Kerala is a small state on India’s Malabar Coast – home to 35 million people and renowned for its peaceful backwaters and the tea-covered mountains of the Western Ghats. Despite being over 5,000 miles away from the UK, Kerala’s careful yet unrelenting response to the COVID-19 pandemic […]
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Image description: The Statue of Liberty in fog. Fourth of July for my family is usually a sizable affair, as for most. We have potlucks and barbecues with our friends, go to festivals and watch the annual fireworks in our city. Events are always highly attended and for everyone it is a way to put […]
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Image description: a women and boy walking along a dirt road Shamima Begum – the girl who left the UK to join ISIS aged 15 – was told this month that she can return to the UK in order to fight for her citizenship. The reasoning behind the ruling is that she was denied a […]
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Image description: A close-up shot of Saint Basil’s Cathedral. In the latest installment of this year’s biblical succession of bad news, July began with an ‘all Russia vote’ (lacking the legal status of a referendum) on a bleak new package of constitutional amendments: a mishmash of national populism, cultural conservatism and centralist authoritarianism. Those who […]
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Image Description: Removal of a statue of the Shah in Tehran University during the revolution in 1978 Recent successes for the #RhodesMustFall movement has left many Oxford students with a sense of frustration. Of course, it’s good to see progress finally being made on this issue. What’s disappointing is the length of time it’s taken […]
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