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·11th July 2022

The Fall of a Nation

Dan Harrison
Image Description: Johnson and Sunak standing outside N.10, surveying British decline Boris Johnson’s announced resignation has rescued the British nation from...
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·17th November 2020

The Reality of Food Poverty

Jade Calder
Image description: Two cooking pots on top of a rusty metal shelf with a kitchen towel hanging in the background...
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·1st February 2019

Soaring rail fares are one symptom of a sick economy – the disease is privatisation

Michael Culbert
The British railways have come to be one of the most blatantly obvious examples of where privatisation has failed. Commuters...
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·5th July 2017

Oxford academics release biggest ever food bank report

Liam Frahm
Many food bank users are falling deeper into financial and food insecurity, according to a report released last week. The...
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·23rd January 2016

Oxfam Report: Richest 1% wealthier as rest of the world combined

Jan-David Franke
According to Oxford charity Oxfam, global inequality is rapidly increasing. The top 1% now own more than the rest of...
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·1st June 2014

Food bank use may vary, but extreme poverty persists

James Burt
“Hungrier than ever: Britain’s use of food banks triples”, read one national newspaper last year. Even within the headline itself,...
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·15th May 2014

Stuck in a moral limbo living below the line

Joseph Diwakar
If your news feed has, like mine, been absolutely rammed with instagrammed photos of grinning girls holding miserly looking plates...
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·18th April 2013

Yes, it’s more than just a fair-y story

David Lawrence
The logic behind Fairtrade, and why it can change the world.
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·2nd February 2012

Wisdom from Without: Muhammad Yunus

In our fourth external contribution, Muhammad Yunus examines capitalism, the free market and the financial crisis in relation to the multiple sources of human happiness, bidding us consider the theory at the heart of 'social business'.
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·6th February 2021

An unhygienic taboo: period poverty and the tampon tax

Maya Szaniecki
Image Description: illustrated images of period products on a pink background. At the start of 2021 the UK Government announced...
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·10th November 2020

Liberalism and the poor

Matteo Baccaglini
Image description: the painting Applications for Admission to a Casual Ward, a Victorian painting by Sir Luke Fildes. Impoverished men,...
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·4th June 2018

Divisive and Decisive Times: An Interview with Paul Collier

Fatima Al-Fahim
Image credit: John Cairns/Blavatnik School of Government I recall sitting in my economic development course as an undergraduate. Paul Collier’s acclaimed...
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·5th May 2017

Volunteering for change: identifying responsible overseas charity work

Joe MacConnell
Much has been published criticising the phenomenon of ‘voluntourism’, whereby individuals (often students) mix foreign holidays with voluntary work for...
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·22nd January 2016

State school access: the problem starts before Oxford

Max Clements
Oxford’s admissions process has been intensely criticised in recent months by the national media for failing to admit enough students...
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·21st May 2014

Living below the line

Jessica Parkey Humphreys
You would be hard pressed to have missed the latest charity craze sweeping Oxford at the moment. ‘Live Below The...
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·19th May 2013

Debate: Oxford Students should be pursuing social justice projects whilst at University

OxStu Comment Team
[yop_poll id=”6″]   Proposition – Tyler Overton Here are some facts about injustice: according to UNICEF’s 2012 report on child...
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·4th August 2012

Oxfam granted Freedom of the City

James Restall
Oxfam is to receive the Freedom of the City of Oxford in October in recognition of its achievements both in...
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·27th October 2011

Beyond the dreaming spires

Stereotypes and hoards of tourists apart, Oxford houses some of the most deprived areas in the UK. Lizzie Porter reports on the city's lesser known side
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