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Down George Street, the ugliest road in the city centre; straight on through the cyclists’ death-trap (the junction before the bridge); past the pharaonic Saïd Business School, and follow the cycle path; soon, on your right, sheepish Wadham students should be emerging with their granola from the Waitrose across the road; right turn after the […]
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Going into this performance, I wasn’t quite sure which half of it I was more excited about! As a physics student, I was thrilled to be able to witness Brian Cox’s enthusiasm live, but as a keen music enthusiast I also relished the prospect of being able to hear all four of Vivaldi’s “Four Seasons” […]
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It was always going to be difficult to beat the first series of Planet Earth, even if it was produced a decade ago when technology was nowhere near today’s standards. Back in 2008, Planet Earth was something truly ground-breaking. Although we had had nature programmes before, we’d had nothing like this. Once it was shown, […]
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There seems to be an obsession around about looking naturally beautiful at the same time, and this might be because it seems to be the hardest thing in the world and that human beings strive for the impossible. It has become a stereotype that the highest and hardest stage in art is to look natural […]
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When the end of term comes around it’s nice to get away from it all for a few days. Of course, what this means depends on ones definition of “it all”. For me being surrounded by people in a bustling town or city is part of “it all” and is something that I feel the […]
Continue ReadingSean Scoltock interviews Guardian columnist, writer and producer George Monbiot. “We live in a shadowland, a dim, flattened relic of what there once was, of what there could be again”, George Monbiot. If not literally feral, George Monbiot, the figuratively rabid Guardian columnist, by trade menacingly encircles cosseted elites. A self-described “unreconstructed idealist” with the […]
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