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  • 29th May 2023
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    Students call for ‘formal apology’ from Pro Vice Chancellor on SU motion

    Oxford divided: Over 100 academics sign letter in support of trans students amid Kathleen Stock row

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    SU establishes traffic light system for sustainability demands tracker

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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

    Review: The High Performance Podcast Live

    Modern Marian gospel: a review of the devilishly funny Immaculate

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    Youni – Who are they and what do they do?

    Meet the Editors in Chief for TT23

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    SUNDAY ROAST: OBLIVION

    A guide to college marriages

    SUNDAY ROAST: POWER

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

    Stress: its effects and how to manage it

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

    Penrose and the search for “Einstein”: the story of the aperiodic monotile

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    A Softer Rebellion

    10 days of controversial climate crisis protests in Berlin

    PrĂ­ncipe Past & Present

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

    Unladylike: the problem of labels reveals deeper issues in women’s sport

    Reflections on the Oxford Bidwells Town&Gown 10K

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    Oxford’s Look-‘Book’: Arcadia

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·25th April 2023

Is Oxford too old?

Eleanor Luxton
It was reported last month that four Oxford professors won an age discrimination case against the University, after being forced...
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News
·16th February 2021

SU President-Elect resigns following growing pressure from students

Robert Macilraith
Image description: a moonlit radcam and the SU logo beside it.  Rashmi Samant, the President-Elect of the Oxford Student Union,...
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Pink
·7th November 2019

Lest we forget – A comment on the LGBTQ+ poppy controversy

Robert Macilraith
Those of us who exist within the Queer spaces of social media will no doubt have been confronted with the...
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·18th January 2018

Why it’s time to acknowledge the complexity of the past

“Goodbye, goodbye, goodbye”: these are the mournful words of the sixth Mughal emperor of India to one of his sons,...
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·13th February 2017

Harris Manchester faces allegations of institutional racism in CCTV controversy

Lottie Hayton
On Friday 3rd February, an email was sent by a senior member of college staff at Harris Manchester titled “please...
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·23rd January 2015

Ched Evans should not return to football

Charlotte Vickers
Many of you will have followed the story of convicted rapist Ched Evans, the footballer released from prison last October....
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Entertainment
·31st October 2013

Shock, stoning and social decay in Saved

Tucker Cholvin
Any discussion of Saved, Edward Bond’s 1965 play about class and social strife in 1960s working-class London, ultimately has to...
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·18th April 2013

The music of a people who will not be slaves

Timothy Foot
Music has perhaps thrown up the biggest controversy over the death of Thatcher, but we all need to move on.
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·3rd February 2011

Podcast: Crossing the Line

The Oxford Student comment team digests English politics, crossing party lines to bring you the real story. Each week they'll discuss developments, extracting truth from the smooth rhetoric of politicians. Expect controversy, common sense and forthright opinions from across the political spectrum. No bland party mouthpieces allowed.
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Sport
·29th January 2023

Eubank Jr. vs Smith: A Stunning Scouse Masterclass

Patrick Groves
Like many boxing fans around the UK, my otherwise vacant Saturday night was thankfully filled (albeit all too briefly) by...
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News
·16th October 2020

‘Herd Immunity’ approach backed by Oxford professor labelled as ‘fallacy’

Jamie Slagel and Josh Boddington
Professor Sunetra Gupta of the Zoology department has had her proposal of herd immunity as a solution to the Covid-19...
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·25th March 2018

Oxford Classics Society rerun committee elections

Adithi Shenava
The Oxford Classics Society have decided to rerun elections for President and Social Secretary of the committee for 2018-2019. Elections...
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·19th May 2017

Vice-Chancellor’s safe space stance under spotlight

In recent days, comments by the University’s Vice-Chancellor Louise Richardson on the topic of safe spaces – ranging from eleven...
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·6th March 2016

Mansfield Ball controversy as food and drink runs out

News Team
Attendees at the Mansfield College Ball on Saturday were dismayed to find that much of the promised food and drink...
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·23rd January 2015

We should not stop Ched Evans returning to football

James Monroe
Ched Evans is a convicted rapist: that is indisputable. What should happen to him, having completed the prison component of...
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Comment
·17th October 2013

Debate: Englishness is defined by being born in England

The OxStu Comment Team
Proposition – Harry Noad The English are, by law, a nation. We inhabit this ‘green and pleasant’ land, a peoples...
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Sport
·22nd November 2012

2012: A sporting miscellany

Matt Handley, Miles Dilworth, Ben Crome, Alex Tyndall, Joe Mansour
Matt Handley, Miles Dilworth, Ben Crome, Alex Tyndall, and Joe Mansour take a look at this year’s highlights and lowlights,...
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·20th January 2011

Crossing the Line

The Oxford Student comment team digests English politics, crossing party lines to bring you the real story. Each week they’ll discuss developments, extracting truth from the smooth rhetoric of politicians. Expect controversy, common sense and forthright opinions from across the political spectrum. No bland party mouthpieces allowed.
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  • What’s in a name? The Sackler Empire behind America’s Opioid Crisis 27th May 2023
  • Diplomacy in the Digital Age: The Rise, Impact, and Future of Digital Diplomacy. 27th May 2023
  • Oxford divided: Over 100 academics sign letter in support of trans students amid Kathleen Stock row 27th May 2023
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