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Image Description: A person in a bucket hat and another in a leopard print jacket sat on stone steps staring earnestly at each other. Alex’s take: Lockdown has thrown up questions of individuality versus consumerist hegemony. Has our fixation with constantly being on top of trends been the instrument of our liberation, or is breaking […]
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Image description: drawing of a person looking at their phone, slightly concerned. Our university has always hosted a broad spectrum of conflicting opinions, however after three online terms the student body has fragmented to an alarming degree. Barely a day goes by without a new bout of in-fighting in some pocket of the University. This […]
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This year, Lent started on Wednesday 17th of February. There’s an obvious question to be asked, and it’s one whose tone has been all too commonplace since the start of the pandemic. How do we find room for the festival in this Covid-riddled world? The arrival of Lent will have left many of us at […]
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Image description: A row of three yummy looking cocktails on a table The White Russian. The Caucasian. Signature drink of ‘the Dude’ from the Big Lebowski. And, in my opinion, an excellent cocktail for these long lockdown months. A slight disclaimer before I begin: I am hardly an expert at cocktails – whether making, drinking, […]
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Image Description: An eagle-eye view of the city centre. In the week preceding 12th February, Oxford University’s Early Alert System detected 5 positive cases from a total of 81 tests. The 7-day morning average as remained steady at around 1 case per day. Since August of last year, the Early Alert System has conducted 6,598 […]
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Image Description: Date Tonight Cafe logo with a cupid floating to its side I don’t know about you, but lockdown has really made me feel like I have had plenty of “quality” time with myself, or at least experiences of self-realisation which have brought varying degrees of pleasure – and pain! During this period, if […]
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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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Image Description: A bike parked by a sign that reads “Lamb and Flag passage”. The St John’s JCR President has released a statement on behalf of the JCR on the closure of the historic Lamb and Flag pub. It was recently announced that the pub, which is owned by the college, would not be reopening […]
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Image description: A mix of newspaper cuttings with the words ‘agony aunts’ written in block letters. This week, Elsie and Sonia are feeling a little… romantic. That is, in the sexually frustrated sense of the word. We’re talking touching (with a 2 metre wooden pole), feeling (that existential dread), and desire (for several pints). We […]
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Image Description: an Oxford skyline with cartoon images of the vaccine and the virus. Our Comment Columnists, Clara Morrissey and Dan Harrison, discuss the implications of national lockdowns, and whether they should be imposed. Dan Harrison is our On the Left columnist. He is a first year History and Politics student at Worcester. Uncertainty is […]
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Image Description: The inside of the Covered Market The Oxford City Council announced this month that local businesses are now able to apply for lockdown support grants. Businesses which have been mandated to close by the Government, such as the retail, hospitality, and leisure sectors, can now apply for one-off grants of up to £9,000 […]
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Image Description: A picture of Prime Minister Boris Johnson giving a press conference with the slogan ‘Stay Home, Do Nothing, Get 2:1’. The Oxford Student news team has recently conducted an investigation this term in which they found out that there is literally nothing wrong at the moment, and that it is literally impossible for […]
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Image Description: Nupur Patel standing in front of the Radcliffe Camera The DPhil diaries is a blog post series created by third-year Lincolnite and Oxford Student Life Columnist, Nupur Patel. Having spent a whopping eight years(!) at Oxford, it’s finally time for her to complete her final year at university and find some sense of […]
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Image Description: The Oxford Wine Company’s Turl Street storefront Lockdown #3 is here, and everyone knows what that means. Yes, we have to face the dire reality of taking yet another term from home. And yes, uni exams are still going ahead despite GCSEs and A-Levels being cancelled (thanks, [redacted] College, I’m blaming you for […]
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Image Description: A picture of Prime Minister Boris Johnson giving a press conference. Colleges and the University have begun to respond to the national lockdown, announced yesterday evening by Prime Minister Boris Johnson. The Oxford Student Union have committed to continuing to lobby for students who are negatively affected by the latest restrictions. The University […]
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Oxfordshire – including the city of Oxford – will move into Tier 4 restrictions at 00:01 on Boxing Day. The county has been seeing an exponential rise in cases, which seems to be connected to the emergence of a new coronavirus strain in South East England. The changes were announced in a Downing Street press […]
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When the first lockdown was announced in the UK early this year there was a lot of turmoil, to say the least. Many of us were living away from family and friends, some even didn’t have housemates to keep them company. I for one was very fortunate enough to live with four others, and I […]
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The government has announced that the entirety of Oxfordshire will be in Tier 2 (High Alert) restrictions once lockdown ends on the 2nd December. The government states that this Tier is for areas with a higher or rapidly rising level of infections, where some additional restrictions need to be in place. You can find out […]
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Image description: An open book and cup of tea resting on some wood in front of a lake As we enter further into second lockdown, and the evenings are getting darker and longer, no doubt many of us are finding things rather tedious. If living through these ‘unique times’ isn’t quite entertaining enough for you, […]
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