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Image description: Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu with his bodyguard Frank Senteza aka Frank during campaigning. Frank is wearing a red top with a picture of Robert, they both have a fist raised. Uganda’s January elections saw Bobi Wine, a musician who gained political credibility and a loyal following through his pop career, challenge President Yoweri Museveni, […]
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Image Description: the Reichstag Building on a sunny day. Across a decade which has seen convulsion and upheaval across parts of Europe, one unusual constant on the political landscape has been Angela Merkel. First elected as Chancellor of Germany in 2005, she is one of the longest serving democratically-elected European leaders in history, meaning her […]
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Image description: several small vials labelled ” Coronavirus Vaccine” laid out in a row. Two weeks ago, the UK reached its second vaccination target, with just under 50% of the population having received their first dose. Although this news did not attract much attention – perhaps due to the warm temperatures and open pubs serving […]
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Image Description: Shirley Williams sat on a chair in a black dress with flowers, with a glass of water and mic in front of her. Regardless of one’s own political allegiances, we can all lament the hole in the tapestry of British politics which was left by the passing of Williams. A towering figure of […]
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Image Description: An open Redbull can, displaying the blue bull logo on an orange background In the light of energy drink consumption being linked to heart failure in a 21-year-old student, is this the new health problem for a new generation? Instead of kids from the age of eleven going behind the bike shed and […]
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Image Description: Banners that read ‘climate justice for all’ and ‘Stop HS2’ “It’s not politics, it’s science!”. For years now, this has become something of a mantra for a whole swathe of different movements. Coronavirus is the latest example, but long before that, it was embedded in the discourse around climate change. There, as with […]
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Image Desccription: A dark room with outside light creeping in through the shutters onto a a woman, covered by the darkness. When truths about your very existence within borders you had no say in drawing around you are denied, you ultimately lose your trust in the institutions that pride themselves on upholding these very […]
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Image Description: the BBC logo on a brick building BBC Three was a channel home to many nostalgic shows of our adolescence, from Sun Sea And Suspicious Parents to Gavin and Stacey. After just five years of being kicked off air and existing solely on BBC iPlayer, the channel is returning to television, as early […]
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Image description: an image of the inside of the Pitt Rivers Museum The University has received a grant of £639,999 from the Government’s £1.57 billion Culture Recovery Fund to support the reopening and recovery of the Ashmolean Museum, the History of Science Museum, the Museum of Natural History and Pitt Rivers Museum. All of the […]
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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: women at a protest holding up a banner that reads “We Will Not be Silenced”. [CW: violence against women, sexual assault] Sarah Everard was murdered when walking back from her friend’s house via Clapham Common 11 days ago. The Met have confirmed that the man they have now arrested was a serving police […]
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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 medicines ever invented. From the pill’s development in the 1950s, it was very clear what it could […]
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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: The Houston skyline. The past twelve months have been exceptionally terrible for the United States in terms of natural disasters, even disregarding a certain pandemic. The extraordinary freezing temperatures suffered by Texas, which caused state-wide blackouts and dozens of deaths, were only the latest in a series of climate disasters that have tormented […]
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