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One thing must be said before any discussion of the 2020 US presidential election can be entered into: it is not just about defeating Trump. It is also about rebuilding a nation in decline. Given this, Democratic hopefuls for 2020 must not only prove they can defeat one of the most ineffective and unpopular presidents […]
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It is not hyperbole to say that Venezuela is in crisis. The country is in the grip of hyperinflation; a tenth of the population has emigrated; those remaining face chaos due to shortages of power, water, food and medicine. People are feeding themselves from rubbish, and parents are abandoning children they can no longer support. […]
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To say Trump’s wall is controversial is like saying leaving the EU has been a minor nuisance. The associated government shutdown has been wreaking havoc across America, including the science sector, where data has been lost, researchers are struggling without pay, and science as a whole is losing out. However, conservationists and environmentalists are worried […]
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The Democrats are in urgent need of a reality check. They did fairly well in last November’s mid-terms, but this guarantees nothing. With a crowded field of candidates seeking to receive the Democratic nomination for the presidency, the party must unify around a strong candidate. However, if they are not careful they could easily facilitate […]
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Image Credit: Flikr On Tuesday 6th November, I had something of a heavy night. I stayed up drinking into the small hours of the morning, became quite emotional and then incoherent, before stumbling into bed drunk and exhausted at 3am. This was not, however, the fallout from a standard student club night, but the far […]
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It is hard not to be sympathetic to the Democrats in their current congressional battle. They are fighting a Republican Party unwilling to grant the same rights to some American citizens as it does to others, solely because their parents entered the country illegally. Regardless of one’s views on immigration, we should all treat immigrants […]
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In the past few weeks there has been an influx of American-influenced clothes on the high street. There is suede fringing, double denim, cowboy boots and plaid. So, why is there so much plaid? Why are there cowboys and stars and little neckerchiefs everywhere? Well, to try and answer this question I have scoured runway […]
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If just one image epitomizes Trump’s recently concluded tour of Asia, it will be this one: a photo that captures a blockish Yank unceremoniously dumping food into a Japanese goldfish pond, the hosts hiding their horror behind gritted smiles. This was cheap fodder for the liberal media, who quickly lambasted Trump for everything from his […]
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One of the final events of Turl Street Arts festival took place a little further afield last Monday afternoon: Angus Farquhar, artist and Creative Director of NVA, gave an intimate and impassioned talk about his work at the Ruskin. The main topic of his talk was the restoration of St Peter’s Seminary; a construction unique […]
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How has the music world reacted to President Donald Trump? ‘Bigly’, you might say. Music has always been revolutionary. Even at the best of times, it finds something to grumble about. But Donald Trump, in all his spray-tanned, finger-waving glory, has stirred up its fiercest protest in years. Some are even hailing a new punk […]
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Such phrases as Trumpertantrum, trumpkin, and trumponomics fuelled by the strong feelings engendered by the newly elected tangerine president of the U.S, will be considered for entry into the OED. The pejorative terms have stemmed mainly from debates between Donald Trump and his critics. Trumponomics refers to the president’s economic plan, a trumpertantrum refers to […]
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Students, residents and campaigners gathered in Cornmarket this evening to protest President Trump’s ban on Muslim immigrants entering the country. This forms one of thousands of nationwide campaigns against Trump’s executive order – a response which Barack Obama’s spokesman said the ex-president was “heartened” by. The protest was called by Stand Up To Racism, Oxford […]
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On Saturday, 100,000 people took to Grosvenor Square, London—the location of the American embassy—to protest the inauguration of Donald J. Trump (or, “Le Twat Orange” according to some protesters’ signs). It was one of hundreds of marches around the world to demonstrate solidarity between various marginalized and minority groups who have been targeted by the […]
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2016 was a pretty rough year, we all know, we were there. The idea of an ever-more liberal society where inequality and hatred are on a permanent downward trend has taken some nasty hits. Years to come will be spent by historians trying to interpret “the events”, the academic version of a group chat trying […]
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What did Emily Roden learn about America’s new Secretary of State and the former CEO of Exxon Mobil, Rex Tillerson, after spending a week on jury duty with him? ‘All I know is that this man who holds one of the most powerful positions in the world and clearly has the means and ability to […]
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The most powerful man in the world, as of next January, thinks climate change is a ‘hoax’. Scary, isn’t it? But will his four year tenure as President of the United States give Donald Trump the muscle to hold back the green surge? For the majority of world leaders in developed or developing countries, the […]
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Faced with the task of recommending music which encapsulates the new America which dawned on Election Day, Matthew Li discusses a series of classical pieces in relation to Trump’s victory. The Rite of Spring perhaps captures the shock that many of us experienced when we woke up on Wednesday morning to discover that Donald Trump […]
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Most hostile commentators have laid the blame at the feet of white, working class Americans who feel they have been left behind by globalization; and have directed equally fierce criticism at a Democratic establishment which made them feel unwanted. Undoubtedly there is force in this argument, but it does not explain why millions of well-off […]
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Mirror, Mirror, on the Mall By Chris Allnutt Last week, Black Mirror’s creators took to Twitter to deny rumours that the American election was merely an extension of the show. “This isn’t an episode,” they tweeted, “This isn’t marketing. This is reality.” Co-creator Charlie Brooker initially worried that 2013 episode “The Waldo Moment,” which shows […]
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