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Image description: pride protest march at night Globally, 2020 has been a historic year for LGBTQ+ people. Alongside the Pope updating his stance on same-sex civil unions (something I wrote about earlier this term), we’ve also seen a ‘rainbow wave’ in the US, with more LGBTQ+ people elected than ever before. However, as queer people […]
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Jackie Brown reflects on the climate crisis close to home. On my journey home this Christmas Vacation, my plane descended into a landscape I no longer recognised. An unfamiliar sky where clouds had been replaced by a thick, impenetrable blanket that seemed to be suffocating everything beneath it. A blurred, dark outline of a city […]
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Image description: The John Radcliffe Maternity Hospital For many, the NHS is the jewel in the British crown. ‘Envy of the world’, ‘the national religion’, it is difficult to overstate its importance. For decades, the health service has been used as a particularly poignant political football. Recent years have perfectly exemplified this. Who could the […]
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Image Credit: US Department of State (Public Domain) The Oxford Union’s annual Open Period is set to include speaker events with Tony Abbott, the former Australian Prime Minister, Professor Richard Swinburne, Jo Malone, and Jude Law. During the annual Open period, which will take place until the 18th October, any student with a Bod card […]
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“I am very sorry.” Glum-faced Australian fast bowler Cameron Bancroft, who was last week spotted by the television cameras illegally tampering with the ball on the field of play with a yellow strip of sandpaper – an offence which has since prompted crisis in Australian cricket – gives a sombre statement to the world’s press. […]
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On the third day of the third Test yesterday between South Africa and Australia in Cape Town, a Test series already dogged by controversy became even more contentious. Australia took to the field with Steven Smith as their captain, David Warner as their vice-captain, and Cameron Bancroft as a promising but relatively untried Test match […]
Continue ReadingAustralian singer songwriter Josef Salvat has been described as “the male Lana Del Rey” and is the darling of music bloggers across the globe. Yet his website is virtually barren and his tweets are short, sweet and often cryptic. “I’ve never really been comfortable communicating a lot online” Salvat explains, “I am used to feeding […]
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Continue ReadingAs chill winds and broken boilers herald the arrival of November in Oxford, the return of international rugby to JCR TV screens across the university is a welcome ray of light in the afternoon gloom (so long as you can expunge any prospective Strictly-watchers from the room). The snappily-named QBE Autumn Internationals begin for England […]
Continue ReadingFor the real Australians and Jubilee-philes among you, you will have noticed that former Australian Prime Minister John Howard just received the Order of Merit from the Queen, which is held by only 24 living people for distinguished services to the Commonwealth. Having managed to make some time for a packed Union in the midst […]
Continue ReadingMonish Kulkarni thinks India can avoid a whitwash in the fourth test against Australia
Continue ReadingConor Gibson laments the departure of one of the game’s greats: Shane Warne
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