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Image Description: A cartoon image of roasted meat on a red and orange background with the words: “Sunday Roast: Featuring the Stories that didn’t quite leave the newsroom”. After a week off (fifth week hit Rordon hard), our resident student *journalist* returned this week to the streets of Oxford in the pursuit of a good story. […]
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Once again on zero sleep, Rordon remains dazed, confused, and dazed again. Too much work, too little sleep. And yet Rordon admits that he only does English – surely he should have the freedom to write smash hit articles all the time (shameless plug for the Eurovision Top 10 xoxo). And yet… he doesn’t. But […]
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Image Description: A white middle-aged man in a crowd of people. This week’s alumni is Alan Allen, an accountant from Worthing who continues to describe himself as being in his ‘mid-to-late thirties’ despite turning 40 later this year. Allen graduated from Oxford in 2002 with a perfectly acceptable 2:2 in History, and now works as […]
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Image Description: A cartoon image of roasted meat on a red and orange background with the words: “Sunday Roast: Featuring the Stories that didn’t quite leave the newsroom”. It’s fourth week, which means that there are only four more weeks to go! Rordon has been particularly busy this week, which is why he might have […]
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Rordon Gamsay has returned from the plane of existence he ascended to last week. He has also managed to escape Holywell Street’s weird wailing. These two things are not connected, but you are forgiven for thinking so. As seems to be the case near-permanently, he has far too much work considering his status as a […]
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Rordon Gamsay has recovered (almost) from May Day by resetting his body clock and ascending to a higher plane of existence. He has currently been awake for over 72 hours. He is no longer sure how to spell his own name, or the word ‘yacht’? ‘yot’? Zero clue, zero cares, zero sleep. His term is […]
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Image Description: A cartoon image of roasted meat on a red and orange background with the words: “Sunday Roast: Featuring the Stories that didn’t quite leave the newsroom”. After handing in his collections only 96 hours late, Rordon Gamsay panicked and forgot that he was meant to be doing this news thing. So he rushed […]
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Image Description: a cartoon image of an unidentified roasted meat on a red and orange background, featuring the words “Sunday Roast: featuring the stories that didn’t quite leave the newsroom”. Rordon Gamsay has returned to Oxford and resumed his investigations of all the stories that the *five* Oxford newspapers forgot to look into this week. […]
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Image Description: a crying Oxfess logo on a dark blue background After a brief hiatus for the vacation, Rordon Gamsay is back with a big announcement. All this time, he has been an Oxfess admin, and he’s now prepared to spill the secrets behind everyone’s favourite(?) Facebook page! I start every morning in the same […]
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Image description: newspaper clippings with the words ‘agony aunt’ written in block letters. For many, 8th week is a period where work slows down and they can piss away their time going on Wikipedia deep-dives about the supercontinent Pangea, or in non-pandemic days, getting thoroughly shit-faced at every beer garden situated within the OX postcode. Alas, […]
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Image Description: Old man smiling with a Spectator mug and an open laptop with a George Orwell quote You may have decided to read this article because you are interested in pursuing student journalism. Or you may be here out of spite and hatred. Student journalists, like real journalists, are rarely held in high esteem […]
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Applications to join the Editorial team of the Oxford Student are now open! All applications consist of a written application and following this you may be called to an interview with the new Editors in Chief for Trinity term 2021, Isaac and Natasha. News Team applicants may also be required to send in an example […]
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Image Description: A group shot of Oxford Union members with all faces replaced with Jackie Weaver Reader, the close of Hilary term has seen some fiery elections, and quick resignations, however, there are many elections still to be won, and yet to be fought! African and Caribbean Society presidential elections have recently concluded and saw […]
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Image Description: Oxford High Street circa 2019 In the old days, before the plague, Oxford was a different place. The students of the University lived a blameless life, in some ways unchanged for hundreds of years. Many a fresher has asked me what it was like in those halcyon days. As a Classicist, I supposedly […]
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Fuckboy (also fuck boy) noun “someone who is only looking for a piece of ass to use then throw away” Woman #1: he’s so hot Woman #2: don’t be fooled, he’s a total fuckboy The easiest step to recognise a fuckboy is to know that the fuckboy does not have a penchant for meaningless small talk or fruitless conversation. In true fuckboy […]
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Third week has been Rordon Gamsay’s busiest to date. Between covering the launch of SU leadership campaigns and infiltrating a spicy second-year group chat, our flagpole girth and bird-spotting correspondent couldn’t be more relieved to finally deliver this week’s very important breaking news. Oxford Union Impeachment Fails: Standing Orders Misunderstood Rordon Gamsay exclusively […]
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Image Description: Macaulay Culkin WRITER’S NOTE: In research for this valuable piece of journalism, the writer read a whole article in Tatler. Fitzwilliam Fitzherbert-Fitzroy, heir to the ancient Earldom of Fitzrovia, known to his friends, foes and scorned lovers simply as “Fitzy”, is a man unused to hardship. Born into money, an Eton education and […]
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Third week already?? Time flies when you’re having fun… Rordon Gamsay, our shoe size and sodium content correspondent, is back with an entirely serious and very analytical review of the week. Harris Manchester College placed in indefinite lockdown after AstraZeneca vaccine deemed ineffective Students at Harris Manchester College have been placed into an indefinite lockdown […]
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Colleges live or die by the quality of their websites. Or not. Regardless, here’s an arbitrary and judgy list ranking them all for your reading pleasure: 1st – Univ – 10/10 The clear winner. Somehow manages to make the blue and yellow colour scheme look tasteful rather than horrible, which it objectively is. Clear interface […]
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