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Image description: white façade with the phrase ‘protect women now’ written on it in purple chalk. Everything about the recent case of Sarah Everard’s abduction and murder is horrifying. The fact that she was kidnapped from streets that she should have been able to walk on safely, by a man employed by the state to […]
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Image Description: barbed wire in a spiral, against a spiked fence. Names in this article have been changed. The coronavirus pandemic has impacted us all enormously, but the impact on prisoners has sometimes been overlooked. Examining the way in which the government has dealt with the pandemic within the general population, in comparison to prisons, […]
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Image Description: a headshot of Siân Berry against the backdrop of a drawing of Oxford’s skyline and the text ‘Siân Berry: Alumni Series’ This week’s alumni is Siân Berry, a former Materials Science student at Trinity College who went on to become politically active within the Green Party. Since 2018 she has been co-leader of […]
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Image Description: A picture of Starmer sat alone on the front benches of the House of Commons. Whilst the right vilifies Keir Starmer as ‘captain hindsight,’ perpetually vacillating as the government vaccinates and the left lambasts him for the absence of a vision, it is easy to forget that Starmer has made a promising start. […]
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Image Description: a strip of contraceptive pills against a blue background It’s not an exaggeration to say that the contraceptive pill is a landmark medical development of the 20th century – perhaps even one of the most important medications ever invented. From its development in the 1950s, it was very clear what it would mean. […]
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Image Description: a wooden desk with a laptop, mug, notebooks, pen and a pencil case on top of it. A fireplace on the left. Goldman Sachs boss David Solomon has this week announced his intentions to bring back the staff who have worked from home over the pandemic, calling the shift to working from home […]
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Image description: A bridge broken in half, on a yellow background. Every year, the Oxford-Cambridge boat race takes place on the Thames in West London. For my whole life I have lived halfway along the course on the Barnes side, and for as long as I can remember I have been running out to the […]
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Image description: A Gavel on a black background. The Shamima Begum Supreme Court judgment is complicated. It covers a wide range of subjects over a number of appeals and cross-appeals, and there are elements heavily embedded in case-law and statute. This was not a mere political decision. The Supreme Court has unanimously supported the judgment […]
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Image description: A row of cars waits for a pedestrian to cross the street. On Friday 19th February, the Supreme Court handed down its decision in Uber v Aslam and Others. It held that the group of Uber drivers who had applied to the court were “workers” under the Employment Rights Act 1996. This was […]
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Image Description: four hands raised from the bottom of the photo, each holding up a wad of cash When shopping online, the option to pay the full amount upfront is now often challenged by the alternative of paying in smaller weekly, bi-weekly, or even monthly interest-free instalments, over a set period of time, using the […]
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Image Description: three syringes with colourful liquid inside, in front of a flag of the EU. Vaccines! Our saving grace! Well…maybe not for the European Union. In light of a more protracted approval process when it came to the candidate vaccines themselves, and the recent spat with AstraZeneca, the EU as a whole is far […]
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Image Description: a line of beer taps in a pub. Those who know me will know that I am partial to a pint or two. But, prior to alcoholic beverages entering my life, pubs already had a place in my heart. Not only do I come from a family of publicans, and lived in a […]
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Image description: the logos of the student newspapers backing this statement. As the editors of Russell Group student newspapers, we are writing collectively to request a reversal of the Russell Group’s statement, 7 January 2020, ‘on ensuring fair assessment and protecting the integrity of degrees.’ As editors, not only are we students or recent students […]
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Image Description: students sitting exams in an exam hall News of the cancellation of GCSEs and A-Levels in England came unexpectedly to students this year who, up until this point, had been emphatically assured that these would go ahead as planned. This decision came almost one month after Wales and Scotland also called off examinations. […]
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In a letter from the Department of Education, Michelle Donelan, Minister of State for Universities has announced that the return of students not on practical courses should be paused until the week beginning the 25th January. This comes after further Tier 4 announcements this morning, triggered by quickly rising case rates. The letter states that: […]
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When I was in my early teens I read Starter for Ten, a novel about a working-class lad who manages to get on his university’s University Challenge team, one bored summer. Since then, it has been a quiet dream of mine to get to university, against the odds assigned to me on account of my […]
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Image description: A row of shops, with a Christmas tree in the middle. Will I shed a tear for Debenhams, the department store that has withstood total collapse for so long? The store opened first in 1778, withstanding wars, depressions, the invention of modern life, and even my working there as a Christmas Temp, despite […]
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Image description: A blue wall with baskets of flowers. Living is such a funny concept in today’s world. “If you haven’t done this you aren’t living” they say. Well, I’ve not done many things many people have, yet I sit here and still feel my pulse. So, what is “living” really? I spent summer and […]
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Image description: A window with writing made of post-it notes On Wednesday, Matt Hancock said that he would agree to receive a coronavirus vaccine on live TV, in response to a challenge from presenter Piers Morgan. Other politicians are in queues to do the same – including Boris Johnson, Nicola Sturgeon, and several past US […]
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