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For many commenting on George H.W. Bush’s passing, his life and legacy have been used as a tool for expressing their views on contemporary American politics. On the one hand are those who herald him as “the anti-Trump”, using his long career of service and respect for his office as a template for how a […]
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Image credit: Wikipedia (CC-BY-2.0) The Sutton Trust recently published a report which has since made waves on social media. The report finds that eight top British schools had as many Oxbridge acceptances as another 2894 schools and colleges put together between 2015 and 2017. This has brought to light the debate on where the fault and […]
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Image Credit: Jiahui Huang (CC-BY-SA-2.0) For those of us without a home to go back to over the vac, Oxford can be a lonely place. The estrangement report, undertaken by the SU this summer, has offered many people an insight into what life is like for people like me. This report pointed out some really important […]
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Image Credit: Facebook Oxford is losing a piece of its history. The story is being covered in local news, but our terms are so hectic that they rarely provide an opportunity for us to stop and look at the town that our university calls home. Elmer Cotton Sports has been a mainstay in Oxford’s sporting […]
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Image credit: Fibonacci Blue (Flickr) “A grand canyon has opened up in our world”: on one side is the alt-right, on the other, the “illiberal liberals”. This bold claim was made by Stephen Fry in his recent speech to the Festival of Dangerous Ideas, in which he pronounced the death of classical liberalism. On the surface, […]
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Image credit: neiljs (Flickr) In the last two years, over 100 public libraries across the UK have been forced to close down. A further 500 are now being run by all-volunteer workforces, often made up of retirees working for nothing to keep their local communities alive. Even in the best-case scenario, volunteer-run libraries lack oversight […]
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Image credit: Wikipedia (DFID) In August last year, 20,000 Rohingya Muslims were forced to flee Rahkine State, a western province in Myanmar. By October 2017, the United Nations estimated that 600,000 Rohingya had fled Myanmar. At the time, the United Nations and Amnesty International called the mass exodus of the Rohingya minority a “textbook example […]
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Image Credit: Flikr On Tuesday 6th November, I had something of a heavy night. I stayed up drinking into the small hours of the morning, became quite emotional and then incoherent, before stumbling into bed drunk and exhausted at 3am. This was not, however, the fallout from a standard student club night, but the far […]
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Image Credit: Wikipedia. Earlier this term, The Daily Mail published an article headlining ‘Bottom’s up! Oxford University students dance in the street as they party into the night for Freshers’ Week’. On first glance, this provided me with much amusement as I scrolled through the photographs looking to see if I anyone I knew had […]
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Image Credit: Wikipedia (CC-BY-SA-3.0) “It is time to start a new chapter” declared Angela Merkel, announcing her decision not to run for re-election as chancellor in 2021 and to stand down as chair of the centre-right CDU at the party’s conference in December. A chancellor for 13 years and a CDU chairwoman since 2000, Merkel […]
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Image Credit: (CC-BY-SA-4.0) It is often the case that Oxford students are shielded from events happening elsewhere in the world. We’re all guilty of becoming stuck in the ‘Oxford bubble’ to an extent, and in these turbulent times one is tempted to ignore Brexit as simply another thing to which we here in Oxford will […]
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Image credit: Facebook The 2012 Facebook event description of the St. Anthony’s annual HalloQueen bop read: “HalloQueen, the rules are simple: boys – dress like girls, girls – dress like boys.” It was the start of something of a tradition. Each year around Halloween, the St. Anthony’s bop attire encourages students to cross-dress. The title […]
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Image credit: Facebook Weidel’s cancellation is a missed opportunity – Kit O’Loughlin Harold Macmillan once called the Oxford Union “the last bastion of free speech in the Western world”. If you think that’s a compliment, as I do, you may find yourself in the minority. Recently, more than two-thirds of our representatives at the SU voted to […]
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Image Credit: Wikimedia The Oxford Union announced on Friday that Alice Weidel, parliamentary party leader of the AfD, will not speak on the 7th of November due to security concerns. This article is a contribution from members of the German community in Oxford and is intended to serve as an explanation of our reactions to […]
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Image Credit: Flicker Guo-Sheng Liu was formerly co-chair of the SU LGBTQ+ Campaign, BME Representative of the LGBTQ+ Society, LGBTQ+ Representative at Lincoln College, committee member of the SU Campaign for Racial Awareness and Equality and It Happens Here campaign. Racism operates beyond the individual. Racism is a system of beliefs, power, and privileges. Racism […]
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Image credit: Pexels Whether you are a fresher or a battle-worn fourth-year, you may have heard whisperings of an event on the horizon. Yes, fifth week is well upon us, and it’s accompanied by a cloud of discontent – the legendary Fifth Week Blues. The legend goes that suddenly, the moment we enter the first week […]
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Image Credit: WundermanWiki Student diabetics need to look out for their future health. Recently, there’s been a lot of attention in the press about diabetes, such as the news that hundreds of people are dying due to diabetes-related illnesses. So, for a young person, it’s a bit disconcerting. I feel a responsibility to speak out about my […]
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Image Credit: Wikipedia. Until relatively recently, my knowledge of Nicaragua was largely limited to what I’d managed to glean from The Clash’s album Sandinista!. While both funky and punky, it is sadly lacking in the kind of in-depth analysis necessary to explain the complicated political situation in the central American country that, since independence in […]
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Image Credit: PxHere Warning: this article contains explicit discussion of rape, abuse and gaslighting. I want to start by saying that Nice Guy is a great play. The characters are compelling, the score is fantastic, the acting is phenomenal. But as someone who has experienced abuse in the past, it disappointed me. Nice Guy, the new musical […]
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