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Image description: rows of neon rainbow lights silhouetting a clock In a video called “Queer Theory”, Youtuber Abigail Thorn (also known as PhilosophyTube) introduced me, and I’m sure plenty of others, to the concept of ‘queer time’, and suddenly my life made a lot more sense. The basic idea is that queer lives do not […]
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Image Description: Five people standing, distanced from each other, along a canal in Oxford. They are each wearing charity: water T-shirts. The OxForWater campaign organised a semi-virtual running event and raised more than £3,000 for charity: water, a non-profit organisation which works to increase access to clean water in rural and isolated regions. More than 50 […]
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New College and Mansfield College have come into dispute over the development of a controversial tower block from New College. Warham Tower, which would house third years in New College, would overlook Mansfield’s residential quad, and would feature some windows which would look directly into student bedrooms. This has lead to worries about privacy, with […]
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In a week when Johanna Konta became the first British woman to break into the tennis top ten for thirty years and Gareth Southgate became the sixth man to manage England in ten years, it is worth musing over the fickle nature of sporting development. After all, ten years ago it would have been elite […]
Continue ReadingThe University has recently unveiled blueprints for £1.8 billion worth of development in Oxford. The plans include new developments in the science area as well as accommodation provisions for students. A spokesperson for Paul Goffin, director of estates at the medical sciences campus, said “in order to compete with the best universities in the world […]
Continue ReadingGeorgia Luscombe tells us why Godfrey Bloom’s ‘Bongo Bongo’ comments were not only insensitive, they also demonstrated how naive the UKIP mindset is when it comes to foreign aid.
Continue ReadingAndrea Jansson comments on the commercialisation of development aid
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