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  • 30th May 2023
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    Students call for ‘formal apology’ from Pro Vice Chancellor on SU motion

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    What’s in a name? The Sackler Empire behind America’s Opioid Crisis

    Diplomacy in the Digital Age: The Rise, Impact, and Future of Digital Diplomacy.

    Editorials – Week 5 Trinity 2023

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    National misinformation campaign engulfs Oxford

    The overstated advantage of bilingualism

    Matthew Holland

    Oppositional Alternative: Why Keir Starmer needs to present a radical case for change

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    Magdalen Players’ A Midsummer Night’s Dream: a night of magic and mayhem

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    The little allotrope that might – does graphene still have potential?

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    The first discovered aperiodic tile: known as the "hat" polykite.

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    A Softer Rebellion

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    2022/23 Premier League: An Attenborough-esque survival of the fittest?

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·26th May 2019

‘A hotbed of aggressive transphobia’ or ‘Philosophy in the Bookshop’

Jessica Duffy
Image Description: Naomi Wolf. On Thursday, Blackwell’s hosted a ‘Philosophy in the Bookshop’ talk with Naomi Wolf to promote her...
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FeaturesPink
·17th February 2020

‘Be Gay, Do Crime’ – Appreciating LGBTQ+ representation in fiction podcasts

Wei Ai Ng
Image description: Player characters from The Adventure Zone: Balance. Image credit: “The Adventure Zone” by Nicholas Kole is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0  Like...
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·24th October 2020

‘Defending ourselves with Data’: The Oxford COVID-19 Government Response Tracker

Jackie Brown
Image Description: Collage of some of the OxCGRT coders in a Zoom-like format.   COVID-19 has undoubtedly wreaked havoc upon the...
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A mother braids her daughter's natural hair.
Identity
·19th February 2020

‘Don’t touch my hair’ – the significance of ‘Hair Love’

Ibtihaaj Mohamoud
Household chores and childcare were pretty evenly distributed in my house but if there was one thing that fell directly...
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Food and Drink
·12th November 2016

‘Frankenstein Food’ Stakes a Claim in the Meat Sector

With almost a thousand students last week taking the OUSU veggie pledge, with pledges ranging from full veganism to ‘quitting...
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FeaturesFood and Drink
·12th November 2016

‘Jesus loves Wahoo’: A Tribute to the Bar (and Grill)

Chris Allnutt and Lizzie Shelmerdine
We did attempt to get some food at Wahoo before it closed for good (yes, it sounded weird as we...
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Features
·27th February 2012

‘Nothing surprises us’: What The Porter Saw

They’re the backbone of the university, an ever-present feature ensuring each day runs smoothly for visitors and students alike. Without...
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Bosnian Genocide
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·31st January 2023

‘Peace isn’t just the absence of war’: Smajo Bešo OBE, Bosnian Genocide Educational Trust Founder and Chair

Anna Davidson
Content Warning: mention of war, rape, islamophobia Smajo Bešo OBE, academic and the founder and chair of the Bosnian Genocide Education...
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News
·3rd August 2019

‘Plush for all’ accessibility campaign successful!

Rosie Good
Plush, Oxford’s only LGBTQ+ bar and club, published a press release on the 23rd July announcing the success of the...
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Features
·6th February 2012

‘Tax is such a shame’: Made in Chelsea star’s business secrets

“Tax is such a shame”, Francis Boulle comments mournfully. “It’s a damn shame that it exists”.  Tax probably does get...
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Features
·17th February 2023

‘A very archaic law which isn’t compassionate’: The Oxford Campaign for Assisted Dying

Anna Davidson
Jonathan Tiley, a second-year History and Politics student at St John’s College, has recently launched the Oxford Campaign for Assisted...
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Pink
·19th January 2020

‘Colourfully queer’ – Finding an alternative family at Oxford

Jade Calder
Upon arriving at Oxford, I was initially tentative about dipping my toe into the water of the LGBTQ+ ‘scene’, as...
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Features
·3rd April 2015

‘Distant’ Voices: in defence of Birmingham

Ariane Laurent-Smith
You would think from the way certain Oxford students talk about it that Birmingham was one of the most distant...
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Features
·25th March 2020

‘Find My Pasta’: the app beating COVID-19 shortages

Sarah Alford & Jamie Slagel
On the 25th March 2020, St Peter’s College’s Jack Solomon and Merton College’s Julia Willemyns’s ‘Find My Pasta’ app was...
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Cover art of Iron Widow by Xiran Jay Zhao.
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·14th February 2022

‘Iron Widow” by Xiran Jay Zhao: A Review

Jessica DeMarco-Jacobson
Image Description: Cover art of Iron Widow, a book by Xiran Jay Zhao. Mechas, aliens, East Asian mythology – all...
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Identity
·18th May 2023

‘Just keep making noise’: music and identity

Sami Jalil
I mean it when I say music saved my life. In the darkest hours of my past, the wire of...
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Features
·16th April 2019

‘Our Lady of Paris is in flames’: What was truly lost in the Notre Dame fire

Clotilde de Maricourt
“…une grande flamme désordonnée et furieuse dont le vent emportait par moments un lambeau dans la fumée.” “…a great flame,...
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·13th November 2019

‘Planet Pledge’ 2019 launched

Rosie Good
Oxford SU’s veggie pledge initiative is returning, with pledges opening today and remaining open until the 30th November. This year,...
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FeaturesScience and Technology
·1st February 2017

‘Prevention is better than cure’ – Oxford leads in vaccine research

Fazle Chowdhury
Like wars and famine, infectious diseases are an eternal challenge to human progress and development. They remain among the leading...
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