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Image Description: a yellow U.S. mail-in ballot with British stamps. A disclaimer: I am by no means an expert on U.S elections, nor do I study politics or government. This piece features my own politically-biased opinions and observations based on living in the U.S for twenty years in the state of Wisconsin. One of the […]
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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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Protesters have gathered outside the Oxford Union as US President-elect Donald Trump’s ex-campaign manager Corey Lewandowski delivered an address to the society. The protest was organised by OUSU LGBTQ Campaign and Oxford Migrant Solidarity. The protestors involved began to assemble at around 7pm and stayed for the duration of Lewandowski’s speech. The chants of […]
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Hundreds of people attended a rally in Oxford on Sunday for the event aiming to “show solidarity, love and support for groups facing marginalisation”. The ‘Love Rally’, which took place outside the Clarendon building on Broad Street, attracted students, locals and families. The event began at 2pm and finished at 3.30pm. The event included speakers […]
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As Americans head to the polls, Nasim Asl sat down with spoken word artist come rapper, George Watsky, to talk politics and poetry. As far as hip hop artists go, George Watsky is unusual. His journey to the genre has been a weird one. He brought out a collection of poetry and performed as a spoken […]
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An investigation by The Oxford Student has found that Oxford students overwhelmingly favour Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton in the race for the US presidency. Over seventy-five per cent of 456 interviewed said they would vote for Hillary Clinton, compared to thirteen per cent who would vote for Donald Trump, and eleven per cent who would […]
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An investigation into Twitter activity during one of the televised US presidential debates has shown that Republican candidate Donald J. Trump’s support was boosted by support from automated ‘bots’. Although he would still have received more supportive tweets than rival Hillary Clinton (Democrats), four times as many bots endorsed him than they did Clinton. Overall, […]
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The rise of Donald Trump has left many scrambling for explanations. Trump clearly has no serious allegiance to, or even comprehension of, core Republican ideals – limited government, moralistic social policy, adherence to the Constitution. He inveighs against the openness to trade and sprawlingly interventionist foreign policy that define the neoconservative movement dominant in the […]
Continue ReadingIt’s the final countdown! The team here at Comment are going to be blogging live as the results come in. We’ll draw in sources from news sites, Twitter and elsewhere, and try and draw your attention to the big news that matters as each state declares. We’ll also look for anything funny that’s going on […]
Continue ReadingJohn McCain should look old. He has, after all, served two terms as a Congressman, almost four as a Senator and spent six years of his life as a POW in North Vietnam. And yet McCain speaks with the restless energy and fluid articulacy of a much younger man. In a world where Sarah Palin […]
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