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Image Credit: Pollyanna Johnson Daisy Johnson, an Oxford graduate, was today announced as the youngest author to be shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. Johnson, 27, studied for a master’s degree in creative writing at the University, and still lives in Oxford. ‘Everything Under’ is her debut novel. It follows the story of Gretel, a […]
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“Burning down the house”, a popular club night, will be moving from The Cellar to Cirkus, a new nightclub opened on George Street. This decision follows a recent fire risk assessment which has meant that the capacity of the club has had to be restricted severely, since the fire escape was not considered adequately safe […]
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Swiss prosecutors have opened new rape case against Tariq Ramadan. Prosecutors in Geneva, Switzerland, have disclosed that they have opened a rape and sexual misconduct investigation against Tariq Ramadan, an Oxford University Islamic scholar. Ramadan was initially detained in France earlier this year over rape allegations made by four women. Earlier this year, French judges […]
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Image Credit: Department for Transport/Oxford Mail The Government’s preferred option for the new Oxford to Cambridge road link has been announced. The new expressway, or dual carriageway, aims to provide a direct road link between Oxford and Cambridge via Milton Keynes, connecting what a report by Highways England calls “some of the UK’s most successful, […]
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We all remember the excitement last December when the price of Bitcoin, the most famous of the cryptocurrencies, rose to $19,000 from only $3,000 three months earlier. This made a lot of lucky investors very rich, but what exactly were they buying? Bitcoin was invented as an electronic alternative to cash that cannot be spent […]
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Image Credit: Kelly Hill (CC BY-SA 4.0) Siân Berry, a graduate of Oxford University, has recently been elected joint leader of the Green Party alongside Jonathan Bartley. Bartley had previously shared this role with Caroline Lucas, the Green Party’s only sitting MP. However, following her decision not to stand again, Bartley instead ran for leader […]
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Image Credit: Labour Youth (CC BY 2.0) Charlotte Austin, a student at Jesus College, has been elected to Labour’s National Policy Forum (NPF), a body that shapes the manifesto of the Party. The NPF is a 204-strong body consisting of members from across the Labour movement, including MPs, constituency groups and Trade Unions. It was […]
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Image Credit: Gage Skidmore (CC BY-SA 2.0) Hillary Clinton, the Democratic Party’s nominee for President of the United States in the 2016 election, will be visiting Oxford in October 2018, The Oxford Student can reveal. The Bonavero Institute, located within Mansfield college, is holding two events to mark the 70th anniversary of the adoption of […]
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Toronto is an ethnic melting pot: originally in Iroquois territory (and before then it was occupied by the Wyandot people), it was invaded by French merchants, British refugees from the newly independent United States. In the subsequent centuries there were waves of migration from across Europe and Asia, all contributing to the city’s rich cultural […]
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More than a decade in the making, a collaboration between the University of Oxford, Erlangen in Germany and the Cleveland Clinic in the USA has published a breakthrough study in The Lancet journal this week. The team at the University of Oxford has developed a way of measuring coronary inflammation, allowing doctors to better detect the […]
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Image Credit: Sampson Low (CC BY 2.0) Note: the article that follows is a work of satire, and therefore should not be taken as factual After attempting to read the whole of Edmund Spenser’s “The Faerie Queene” over the summer vacation, English undergraduate Heather Barnet is no longer able to speak normally. Barnet was trying […]
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Image Credit: Steve Eason (CC BY 2.0) Note: the article that follows is a work of satire, and therefore should not be taken as factual Having complained about some British minorities’ inability to understand “English irony,” Jeremy Corbyn now intends to give a series of lectures on the different forms of British humour, the Office […]
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Image Credit: NPUK Niemann-Pick diseases are one of many rare groups of genetic disorders that are largely unheard of. As such, the amazing work and research that goes into improving the lives of sufferers, and hopefully developing a cure rarely gets the recognition it deserves. The three Niemann-Pick diseases (A,B and C) are caused by […]
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Image Credit: Spigoo (CC BY 2.0) Following an attack on a campaign stall at Carfax last Friday evening, a group of Oxford campaigns have come together to call a ‘We will not be silenced” protest. The stall was run by a local socialist group who were campaigning against the statements made by the Former Foreign […]
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Image Credit: Chris McAuley / The First Oxfam Shop / CC BY-SA 2.0 The multi-millionaire catering boss, Richard Cousins, has left £41m to the Oxford-based charity, Oxfam, after dying alongside his family in a plane crash. Mr Cousins was chief executive of Compass Group, and was only 58 years old, when he died alongside his fiancée, magazine editor Emma Bowden, […]
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Image Credit: Photo © Jonathan Billinger (cc-by-sa/2.0) St John’s College has topped the Norrington table for 2018, knocking last year’s first place, New College, into fifth place. The list, which ranks Oxford Colleges by the grades of their finalists, was derived by the eponymous Sir Arthur Norrington during the 1960s. Of 108 finalists, over half […]
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Netflix brought us The Kissing Booth this past May, which quickly rose to popularity with young audiences. But in the battle of 2018 YA film adaptations, To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before is a sure winner. Based on Jenny Han’s best-selling novel of the same name, this story follows Lara Jean Covey, a die-hard […]
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Image Credit: City of Stoke on Trent Sixth Form College (CC BY 2.0) Yesterday’s A-level results saw the proportion of students in England getting C or above fall. However, this year’s students have been awarded the highest proportion of As and A*s since 2012, amid changes toughening the exams in England. The government’s changes to […]
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Image Credit: Steve Daniels (CC BY-SA 2.0) Craig Simmons, Councillor for St. Mary’s ward and Green party member, has received “mis-directed” hate mail for the proposal to rename the extended St. Mary’s ward in memory of Sir Roger Bannister. The world-famous athlete, who was also a celebrated neurologist and a master of Pembroke College from […]
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