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Image Description: UN Secretary-General António Guterres, who has called for a World Climate Summit scheduled for September 2019 Greta Thunberg, the sixteen-year-old Swedish student who inspired the recent climate marches, has, without a doubt, furthered the cause of climate change. The passionate response from hundreds of thousands of young people is certainly encouraging as to […]
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“…une grande flamme désordonnée et furieuse dont le vent emportait par moments un lambeau dans la fumée.” “…a great flame, messy and furious, from which the wind by moments took away a shred in a whirl of smoke.” – Victor Hugo, Notre-Dame de Paris (1831) As a French Oxford student, I wake up this morning […]
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The University is correct to privilege due process amongst calls for revocation – Jacob Harrison Brunei’s new penal code, which went into effect on the 3rd April this year, imposes the penalty of death by stoning for the acts of anal sex, extramarital sex and abortion. Without doubt, the code is abhorrent, regressive and should […]
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It is likely that you saw something of the climate strikes on social media, whether that was a post encouraging you to attend or simply a picture of one of the protests that took place around the world on 15 March. These protests, with their condemnation of inaction on climate change, caught the public eye […]
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This weekend at the 180th Grand National, three horses died at Aintree, while spectators and an estimated global audience of 600 million watched on. With a fatality for each day of the three-day event, social media was quick to condemn the deaths. Members of the public and several celebrities vocalised their concern and called for […]
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As a wearer and lover of stash, I thought I would respond to an article, published by the OxStu, in which my beloved stash faced the opprobrium of a fellow student who sadly misses the point of stash altogether. I proudly admit to owning a plethora of different articles of stash, which includes a puffer jacket, […]
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Image Description: Protesters demand a second referendum on Brexit in the People’s March in London, 23 March 2019 With the continued failure of government to deliver upon the 2016 referendum result and the rigid division of Parliament inhibiting any proposed deal, a second ‘People’s Vote’ has become ever-more attractive to many. After all, if our […]
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As summer approaches, talk of getting that ‘beach body’ abounds, and fasting, gym gains, and carb-free diets are brandished as trophies in the quest to achieve this ideal body. So what? – some might ask. Nothing wrong with getting in shape for the summer, or finally mustering the motivation to shed those extra pounds. It […]
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The Lib Dems are here to stay – Ben Harris I hope that the irony of writing a lengthy article arguing that the Liberal Democrats are “no longer worth talking about” was not lost on the author published alongside me. If anyone needed a reason for an alternative to the predominantly Labour and Conservative status […]
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As of 1st April, the City Council has increased the Oxford Living wage to £10.02 an hour. The Oxford Living Wage Flag will be flying from 10am yesterday at Oxford Town Hall, and has been raised to commemorate the increase and signify the council’s commitment to Oxford being a Living Wage city. If an employee […]
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I am not the fashion police. I am not even the fashion civil service. I am, at the very best, some minor local government body of fashion; a member of the parish style council, maybe. But even in from this lowly vantage point, I feel obliged to offer some advice to the general populace of […]
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Image Description: Elizabeth Warren speaking at event. At what point does a company seem more like a country? In San Francisco in 1932, Franklin Delano Roosevelt presented his vision of America during his presidential campaign in a speech now known as the Commonwealth Club Address. He noted that concentrations of economic power were not to […]
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Image description: Rainbow flags waving at Pride. The decision of Parkfield Community School (in Alum Rock, Birmingham) to indefinitely suspend its teaching of the ‘No Outsiders’ programme––a part of the curriculum which teaches inclusion and diversity––is a saddening step back in the fight for equality. In capitulating to the protesters outside its gates, the school […]
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What do you think should be done about the cuts in music education? Should we let music as a discipline die out? What did you enjoy about music classes at school? Did you find them valuable? In truth, I am writing this because in the pitch for this article a particular question angered me: Should […]
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On February 27, 2019, US President Donald Trump and North Korean Chairman Kim Jung Un met at the Metropole Hotel in Hanoi, Vietnam. Although many hoped that the Vietnam summit would bring some sort of tangible agreement or accord between the two states, the summit was abruptly cut short on its second day- before the […]
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Image Description: Sajid Javid, UK Home Secretary. The decision to revoke Shamima Begum’s citizenship is deeply disappointing. First and foremost, we should not forget that she was only fifteen-years old when she left for ISIS. She is a victim of grooming by a violent and misogynistic cult, and has clearly been psychologically traumatised by her […]
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William Wilberforce once said, “You may choose to look the other way but you can never say again that you did not know”. Wilberforce vehemently opposed the Vagrancy Act of 1824, which criminalises the very existence of homeless people by making it an offence to sleep rough or beg. It is striking that a law […]
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John McDonnell, Labour’s Shadow Chancellor, recently sparked outrage by describing Winston Churchill as a “villain” because of his role in the Tonypandy riots of 1910. However, is it really true that Churchill sent in the military to crush the strike, or is the truth more complicated? In the autumn of 1910 there was a strike […]
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Imagine for a moment that it’s Christmas eve, and you’re out making rounds for a delivery company. You should be at home but you’re out in the streets, because last week your motorcycle was stolen and you couldn’t get compensation from the company, so you’ve got to work double to pay for it. Worst of […]
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