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Image description: Boris Johnson holds a Cabinet meeting It must be difficult being Boris Johnson. For our would-be World King, a Cabinet reshuffle is a delicate balance. The Prime Minister has to traverse a narrow tight rope: he must not promote anyone too talented that could make him look bad in comparison, but he must […]
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Image description: A person putting on a pair of blue surgical gloves Around one in ten women and those assigned female at birth in the UK have polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS), and one in ten women or those assigned female at borth in the UK have endometriosis. PCOS can be summarised as having irregular periods, […]
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Image description: a sign at a climate change protest On 2nd August 2021, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released a landmark report on the planet’s current environmental state, and as ever, it was not good news. In the first report of its kind since 1990, 234 scientists collaborated to reach the same damning […]
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Image description: Scientist in lab holding small test tube and pipette Endometriosis is a chronic condition where tissue similar to the womb lining grows outside the uterus. Symptoms can include pelvic pain which is worse during a period; extreme period pain; pain during or after sex; and difficulty getting pregnant. Current treatments are limited to […]
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Image description: Text in neon purple reading “awkward Tinder dates here” on a dark purple background Picture this: you have crawled out of the depths of lockdown. You have cast off the oversized jumper you have been basically living in for days. With one swipe of your arm the pizza boxes piled high from your […]
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Image description: Taliban soldiers in a queue behind a table with several automatic weapons Two Oxford postgraduate students are trapped in Afghanistan after being refused access to UK evacuation flights, according to The Times. Fearing for their lives, the students are currently hiding in Kabul despite having documentation that entitles them to come to Britain. […]
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Image description: All Souls college skyline A Level results have been officially announced today after once again being decided by teacher assessed grades. The University of Oxford has confirmed that 92% of offer holders have been accepted despite the “widespread disruption to education”. The University has also reported an increased number of places going to […]
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Image description: Man on horseback with man next to him on a bike in front of a pink sky with the title ‘Dusklands’ in pink font Dusklands is difficult to describe. In the words of its director Bruno Atkinson it is a ‘post-colonial, post-virus Don Quixote, which just happened to be filmed.’ The short film […]
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Image description: Small white bowls full of colourful Sri Lankan food on a table. Meg Hopkins picks her top 10 favourite vegan restaurants in Oxford. The Coconut Tree – Food: Sri Lankan street food tapas style. It is a little pricey (although they’re doing Eat Out To Help Out on collections until June) but my […]
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Image Description: A photo mock up of the new public square on Broad Street. The Oxford City Council are planning on creating a temporary public square in Broad Street this summer, and have submitted an application to close part of Broad Street to traffic. The project will create a new city centre destination for Oxford […]
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Image Description: St John’s College, Oxford. Thomas West Oxford, a contractor used by St John’s College Oxford at their North Oxford building site, has updated its wildlife policy after it was reported by a local resident that a lawn mower had run over a baby Roe Fawn on Friday 28th May. A Change.org petition stated […]
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Image description: A boy with his hand on his head looking at his laptop. “Fifth week blues” as a concept and as an experience is as predictable and as stress-inducing as the inevitable student journalism about the topic every term. The idea that the Oxford experience is so corrosive to your mental health that the […]
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Image description: Cinema lobby lit up in neon pink lighting Cinemas have reopened, and according to my completely unbiased and totally comprehensive research, nobody in England is as excited about this as I am. I was never a massive film fan before the pandemic; I’d usually watch a few Oscar nominees and winners annually to […]
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Image Description: Yellow flowers with the Radcliffe Camera in the background. Research by Oxford’s Wildlife Conservation Fellow, Professor David Macdonald, has shown that neither bats nor pangolins were sold at Wuhan’s wet markets between May 2017 and November 2019. Until now the leading hypothesis for the origins of COVID-19, the disease responsible for the ongoing […]
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The Oxford SU has launched the “It’s not enough.” campaign, highlighting the University’s inaction on issues of race equality. This comes after Oriel College’s decision to allow the Rhodes statue to remain in place, and the University’s silence on the anniversary of the murder of George Floyd. The Oxford SU is collecting student responses on […]
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Image description: The Sheldonian Theatre statues TW: mention of alcohol and substance abuse and mental health issues relating Oxford University (like Cambridge and other prestigious institutions around the world) has a reputation for very high standards in academics, sport, and other extra-curricular aspects of university life such as in student-run campaigns and societies. While they […]
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Image description: Eurovision crowds in purple and turquoise lighting turned to a stage with a spotlight Following Saturday’s Grand Final, another Eurovision has come and gone. In what felt like the quickest grand final in recent memory, 26 countries competed for the glass microphone trophy, with Italy pulling up ahead of the jury-favourites Switzerland and […]
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Image description: Jeremy Corbyn and Adam Roble sitting on chairs in the Oxford Union’s chamber. Guy Dabby-Joory reports on Jeremy Corbyn’s appearance at the Oxford Union, and The Oxford Student’s subsequent interview with the former Labour leader. On the afternoon of 20th May, Jeremy Corbyn MP, the former Leader of the Opposition, came to speak […]
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Image description: black silhouettes in front of a purple lit club room The pulsating music sweeps in and crashes like a sonic wave breaking on the beach of Oxford night life. The multicoloured lights shimmer and swirl, fading from greens and blues to red and pink hues. In a disjointing contrast the disco floor throbs […]
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