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    Beyoncé and Beckham: selling out for performative allyship?

    Equal parts delightful and torturous: a review of Aftersun

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    “The Planet is Literally Burning” – Kate Raworth on ‘Doughnut Economics’

    “My problem when I was at Oxford was I tried way too hard and I was constantly trying to work and I just burned out spectacularly”

    Interview with David Petraeus

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    Another small step for man: Are the aims behind NASA’s plans to send astronauts back to the moon purely scientific?

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·24th January 2018

Review: Witch at the Jacqueline du Pré

Miriam Tomusk
The silence beneath the noise is the guiding undercurrent of Witch, an original production created by the students of the...
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Entertainment
·17th May 2012

Giggles, Gardens and Girls

First, a disclaimer: this reviewer is not completely impartial. I directed the University College Garden Show last year, and it...
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Photograph of a cow.
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·12th February 2022

‘Cow’ Review: An Ode to Consciousness, Empathy, and Story-telling

Hannah Williams
Image Description: Photograph of a cow. Director Andrea Arnold is known for casting people with no prior screen experience in...
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Life
·31st October 2013

OxStu Music on the 2013 Mercury Music Prize

Various
This Wednesday saw the UK’s most prestigious music award, the Mercury Prize, handed out for the 22nd time in an...
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Entertainment
·29th August 2013

Thrifty Thursday: DIY tie dye

Lucinda Toole
Tie dye: those days in primary school when you were allowed go crazy for a few hours and create a...
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Entertainment
·24th October 2013

Favour found in Foxfinder

Rob Hayes
The universe of Foxfinder is darkly original…and yet worryingly familiar. Britain, facing apocalyptic food shortages and finding solace in superstition,...
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Culture
·28th February 2020

‘People, Places, and Things’: The Play you didn’t See

Alex Haveron-Jones
Content warning: this article contains brief mentions of sexual abuse and substance abuse. Last week, I was fortunate to have...
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Entertainment
·24th May 2012

A creepy, crawling production

Maeve Scullion with a first night review of Bug at the Burton Taylor Studio. Bug has the makings of a play...
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Culture
·26th October 2020

The brief but not so brief OxStu Oxford fashion guide

Riana Modi and Josh Boddington
Image Description: Clothing rail with hanging clothes illustrated under the Bridge of Sighs So it’s Third week (already?) and you’ve...
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Entertainment
·31st October 2014

Review: Our Country’s Good

Olivia Lynch-Kelly
  ✮✮✮✮✮ The sharp, splitting crack of a whip electrifies the audience, ripping through the cool wash of silence. We...
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Entertainment
·12th October 2016

Which RuPaul Drag Race Queen is Your College? Balliol = Chad Michaels

Oxford, we need to get with the times. Not a day goes by without someone accusing us of being out...
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Life
·22nd October 2012

Live Review: Oxford Chamber Music

Maria Le Brun
Maria Le Brun reviews Oxford Chamber Music. Last Tuesday I went to see former BBC Young Musician of the Year...
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Gaming
·11th May 2020

Tutorial Level: Exploring, Mining and Crafting – Why I Love Terraria

Amy Evans
Editor’s note: We are starting a new series – ‘Tutorial Level’ – on people’s favourite games! Even if it’s not...
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Entertainment
·29th January 2015

William Blake: Apprentice and Master

Alexander Hartley
“And there, right in the middle of his life, is this machine: this large, lumping, huge, wooden, heavy machine with...
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Entertainment
·1st May 2017

Imperial Grandeur and Frustrated Ambition: ‘Antony and Cleopatra’ at the RSC

A climactic scene in Shakespeare’s Antony and Cleopatra ends with the lovers draped atop an Egyptian monument: one royal dead,...
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Entertainment
·11th June 2017

Review: Wonder Woman

Alexandra Wall
I was cautiously optimistic going in to watch Wonder Woman. I had been burnt by DC films before and was...
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Entertainment
·3rd May 2018

Atlanta season 2: surrealism in the heart of the South

Logan Dandridge
If I used an Outkast song to depict season two of Atlanta, I would keep it local with “Elevators (Me...
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Entertainment
·2nd September 2019

Review: Stanley Kubrick Exhibition

Nancy Epton
It feels like only yesterday when my eleven-year-old-self was given an old copy of Empire magazine by my father. It...
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Entertainment
·4th November 2016

Queer Kids’ Media: Sailor Moon

Miranda Reily
I’m back again! Join me in 6th week for a final overview, thinking about representation in kids’ versus adults’ media...
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