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Image Description: a side-by-side of Molly-Mae before and after Love Island. For those familiar with Love Island, Molly Mae Hague is one of their biggest success stories. Coming second with her boyfriend Tommy Fury in 2019 she has far surpassed previous contestant’s post-villa stella trajectory. Amassing over 6 million Instagram followers and lending her name […]
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Image description: A sketch of the Met museum, New York. On Monday night, the rich and famous superstars of the USA gathered at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York to be, well, rich and famous. Far from giving Hunger Games style Capitol fashion and/or decline of the American Empire vibes, some looked good. Most […]
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Image description: The cast bowing after the performance. Content Notice: loss, grief, therapy, mental health In a very unusual academic year, the ninth week of Trinity saw Haldi + Co Productions, founded by Oxford student Neetu Singh, stage two highly successful live performances of their play ‘WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOUR WORLD BREAKS DOWN?’. The play, […]
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Image description: the blue cover of Sally Rooney’s ‘Beautiful World, Where are you’ on a background of grass. Sally Rooney writes books about people. This could be the main message of her new novel: the protagonist Alice is a successful author who writes books about people. She’s very wealthy, and the toast of New York, […]
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Image description: A colourful rack of second hand clothes For years, students have been heading to the spires of Oxford to learn, but, most importantly, find themselves and their new style. Gone are the days of popping to Topshop and spending your student loan on denim jackets. Instead, in an era of social media and […]
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Image Description: The words ‘V-Card’ repeated three times on top of each other in white with peach, banana, cherry, and water emojis against a bright pink background. When a play that looks at sexuality, relationships, and being yourself is as sharply written as V-Card is, one has to laugh, cringe, and cry, sometimes all at once. […]
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Image Description: Francesco Tristano performing on piano with a laptop by his side Pianist and Composer Francesco Tristano is somewhat of a musical vagabond. Still in his thirties, he boasts an incredible career which unceasingly voyages through the distinct artistic realms of classical, contemporary and techno music. Having prioritised the music of Bach during his […]
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Image Description: The Rolling Stones walking in a park Sex, drugs, and rock’n’roll. Words that could be easily and instantly applied to the Rolling Stones, often quoted as one of, if not the greatest rock and roll band of all time. And of course, they can cling to such a title having outlived in the […]
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Image Description: A natural landscape with dry plants and distant mountains Arnold Schwarzenegger once compared the fantasy of movies to the world which we might see materialise around us if CO2 levels keep climbing, and the greenhouse effect takes off: “I’ve starred in a lot of science fiction movies and, let me tell you something, […]
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Image Description: Lorde and Jack Antonoff performing in the foreground of a city For an album as sedentary as Lorde’s Solar Power, it is a remarkable feat to be as divisive as critics have proved it to be. Solar Power marks a stark contrast from Melodrama, its strobe-lit predecessor, and Pure Heroine, Lorde’s cynical debut. […]
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Image description: Text in neon purple reading “awkward Tinder dates here” on a dark purple background Picture this: you have crawled out of the depths of lockdown. You have cast off the oversized jumper you have been basically living in for days. With one swipe of your arm the pizza boxes piled high from your […]
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Image description: black pawn chess piece surrounded by fallen white chess pieces Lockdown has seemed to me to be an era of the brief in entertainment and gaming trends: we had little to do but consume online media, and so new fads entered and left the online psyche at breakneck speed, the sudden and inexplicable […]
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The end of summer looms. August has begun to blur dangerously with September. Uni work can no longer be contemplated with the breezy dismissal of, ‘it doesn’t matter, term doesn’t start for months!’ It is dark before 9pm. And as summer comes to a close, so does the nation’s fling with the best/worst thing on […]
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Image Description: An Album cover of a blue contrast image of the side of Jack Antonoff’s face, with the words ‘Take the Sadness Out of Saturday Night’ written in italics. Records are coming out of the album cover. Jack Antonoff expands his range of sound and emotion with Bleacher’s third studio album. If you’re not […]
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Image description: White text on blue background asking for Creative Team applications: Illustrators, digital designers, and photographers Applications to join the Creative Team of the Oxford Student are now open. If you would like to be an artistic contributor in Michaelmas, now is your chance to apply! Click here for our application form All applications […]
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Image description: Man on horseback with man next to him on a bike in front of a pink sky with the title ‘Dusklands’ in pink font Dusklands is difficult to describe. In the words of its director Bruno Atkinson it is a ‘post-colonial, post-virus Don Quixote, which just happened to be filmed.’ The short film […]
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Image Description: the words “Apply to be an Oxstu Editor. Apply through the online form. Open until 2nd July at 6pm.” on a plain blue background. Applications to join the Editorial team of the Oxford Student are now open. If you would like to be a Section Editor or Deputy Section Editor in Michaelmas, now […]
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Image Description: Syringes with different chemicals injections into a red apple on an orange background. When we think of reality stars we think of their aesthetics; the long (often) blonde extensions, the big pout, chiselled jaws, plumped up cheekbones and cute button notes. Such trends and the silent agreement of what is beautiful, results in […]
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Image description: The album cover of Marvin Gaye’s What’s Going On, depicting a close-up of Gaye wearing a raincoat and looking pensively into the distance. One of the most influential albums of all time, Marvin Gaye’s What’s Going On (1971), turned 50 this month. Owing to its timeless appeal and status as a firm family […]
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