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  • 29th May 2023
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    What’s in a name? The Sackler Empire behind America’s Opioid Crisis

    Diplomacy in the Digital Age: The Rise, Impact, and Future of Digital Diplomacy.

    Editorials – Week 5 Trinity 2023

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    National misinformation campaign engulfs Oxford

    The overstated advantage of bilingualism

    Matthew Holland

    Oppositional Alternative: Why Keir Starmer needs to present a radical case for change

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    Magdalen Players’ A Midsummer Night’s Dream: a night of magic and mayhem

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    The little allotrope that might – does graphene still have potential?

    Stress: its effects and how to manage it

    The first discovered aperiodic tile: known as the "hat" polykite.

    Penrose and the search for “Einstein”: the story of the aperiodic monotile

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    A Softer Rebellion

    10 days of controversial climate crisis protests in Berlin

    PrĂ­ncipe Past & Present

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    2022/23 Premier League: An Attenborough-esque survival of the fittest?

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·22nd October 2012

The sophisticated side of pop

Lewis Coenen-Rowe
Lewis Coenen-Rowe explains why pop and classical music are really the same thing. I turned on the radio the other...
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·7th November 2013

Expressing Themselves Or Selling Themselves?

Lucinda Toole
Anyone can wear what they want. No one should judge them, and no one should question their intentions. But when...
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·27th January 2014

Warpaint Interview: No longer playing ‘The Fool’

The Warpaint of 2010’s The Fool is not the same Warpaint on the cover of their new self-titled album, one...
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·25th March 2014

Everything is not as embarrassing as it seems

Jessy Humphreys
There are a rigid list of rules to follow nowadays if you want to become a pop starlet: a long...
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·29th October 2014

All Hail The Return of Gwen Stefani

Sam Joyce
Casual consumers of pop music could be forgiven for believing Gwen Stefani already returned to us on the radio this...
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·8th February 2016

Beyoncé drops black power anthem like no other

Leila Parsa
‘I came to slay, bitch.’ And slay she did. Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the past 24...
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·24th February 2016

Album Review: ANTI – Rihanna

Katie Collins
After an accidental leak last week, Rihanna’s long-awaited eighth studio album ANTI dropped on music streaming service Tidal, going platinum...
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·18th November 2016

Interview: The Japanese House

Rowan Ferguson
The Japanese House, interviewed by Rowan Ferguson & Aoife de Bhål. Amber Bain, aka The Japanese House, is on the way...
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Life
·7th February 2017

‘I give you power, I can take it away’: pop’s protest against Trump

Madeleine Taylor
How has the music world reacted to President Donald Trump? ‘Bigly’, you might say. Music has always been revolutionary. Even...
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Life
·14th May 2017

Review: What Now, Sylvan Esso

Erin Melton
Sylvan Esso’s newest album “What Now,” released 28 April, continues the relaxed pop vibes of their 2014 self-titled debut album....
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·12th January 2013

New Band / Old Band: The xx and Young Marble Giants

Tom Bell
I have to acknowledge that I’m a few years late in jumping on this bandwagon. Putting the two bands’ names into...
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·27th January 2014

Lola King gets off to bad (kick)start

Kate Bradley
As a title, The Handmade Tale of Lola King and the Kickstarts, suggests a lot of things in itself: because...
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·3rd February 2014

Bombay bid fans So Long but not farewell

Thomas Hoskins
Jack Steadman wrote So Long, See You Tomorrow, Bombay Bicycle Club’s fourth album in five years, while travelling in India,...
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·28th June 2014

Cher Lloyd’s got her swagger back

Aimee Kwan
As a definite non-fan of the X-Factor, even I bow down at the sheer success that certain finalists of Season...
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·29th October 2014

Fast-rising Rockers Eliza and the Bear talk success, songwriting and opening for Paramore

Jessy Parker Humphreys
Even if you have not heard of Eliza and the Bear, you are likely to have listened to them due...
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·10th February 2016

Can’t buy me love?

Freddie Hinds
Why the Beatles Still Deserve our Attention On 24th December last year, the Beatles released their back catalogue onto several...
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·2nd November 2016

Eighties dance-pop icon Pete Burns has died

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·21st January 2017

Review: I See You – The xx

Madeleine Taylor
‘’Cause I couldn’t care less / If they call us reckless’. Accompanied by blasts of garish horns and a skittering...
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·22nd February 2017

Meet the locals: an interview with Be Good

Madeleine Taylor
“We go through different pairs of words, but for me at the moment I think of it as messy R&B”,...
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