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A year abroad for all

There is something liberating about being somewhere where nobody knows your name, your college, or your subject. While abroad, I am no longer simply an Oxford student navigating the same routines of term-time life; I am an outsider, and, most importantly, a beginner again. The world suddenly feels much bigger than the few square miles I had grown accustomed to calling home.
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The quiet guilt of upward social mobility at Oxford

Freshers’ formal. The first black-tie event I attended at Oxford. The golden glow of...
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Unsilenced: I reported Damian Howard, too

When looking back on abuse cases that have plagued the church, some of the...
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We should hate more

Oxford students hate C*mbridge. Or at least, we’re supposed to. We call them Tabs, occasionally ‘shoe’ them, and inherit a rivalry as soon as we matriculate. There’s only one problem: most of the time, nobody seems particularly bothered.
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Proposition - David Tritsch In a place where much of our lives seem to revolve around collection marks, internship applications, and the praise...

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This Sunday it is International Women’s Day. Around the world people will be marking the occasion with marches and parties in support of women’s rights and...

In Conversation with Amber Rudd: How Oxford’s Feminist Spaces Exclude Black women

With International Women’s Day falling this Sunday, several student societies in Oxford organised events with the intention of celebrating women’s achievements, including the UNWomen Oxford Student Society...

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Almost every election cycle, pundits fret over the possibility of a contested convention as soon as primary races get heated. Now, however, more than...

You’ve Got Mail: The Joys of Letter-Writing

My friends often say that I write paragraphs. This may seem self-evident: newspaper articles are generally composed of several linked paragraphs, and this is no exception. But...

Is Britain Ready for the Coronavirus?

Since this article was written, it has emerged that the first British person has tragically died from the disease in Japan. Fears of the...

This House Believes…The Government’s VISA Changes Will Be Bad For Britain’s Economy

Proposition - George Beglan The Government recently announced plans to change how the UK’s VISA system works. The chief impact of this will be...

(Physical) Money Makes the World Go Round

The words “cash” and “money” are interchangeable, but in an age of invisible systems that do anything (and just about everything) for you, surely using tangible money...

“I’m not trying to be a political martyr”: In Conversation with MP Clive Lewis

The current Labour leadership candidates surely have to answer the question of why, in December of last year, the party suffered its worst electoral...

The hidden hurt of Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome

There’s a bizarre feud brewing this week. Jameela Jamil – Tahani on The Good Place – has been accused of having Munchausen Syndrome (a disorder where...

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RESULTS (87,55% of precincts reporting): Sanders 47,1%; Biden 20,1%; Buttigieg 13,6%; Warren 9,7%; Steyer 4,7%; Klobuchar 3,9%.  Mr. Sanders won a decisive victory in the...

Debate: Has Macron Lost Control?

Proposition - George Beglan The Macron Government, led by the youngest President in the history of the Fifth Republic, has lost all control of...

Brits And The Yemen: Wilful Ignorance?

The British middle-classes are walking idly by, whilst from pretty Menwith Hill, the people of Yemen are being bombed. At the innocent age of twelve,...

In Defence of the Middleman

The recent rise of political polarisation in the West, and the corresponding growth of populist movements of all ideological persuasions, has been widely discussed in recent years....

HS2 Shows the Tories Don’t Know the North

The question of how the Conservatives would keep their new Northern voters has troubles allies and critics alike. For Labour, it seemed that if Johnson decided...

Opinion | Introducing the Candidates: A Primer for 2020

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‘Because I Can’: Remembering Diet Coke’s dystopian rebrand in our 2020 dystopia

‘Coca-Cola found a way to convince millennials to drink Diet Coke’ – Qartz.com. ‘An authentic, self-aware Diet Coke that is really inclusive’ – Danielle Henry,...

Radical Reshuffle: Cummings Takes Back Control

To a casual observer reading the past few days’ headlines, the contents of Boris Johnson’s reshuffle of his government would have come as something...

Ireland: Regression or Revolution?

Michael Dolan considers Sinn Fein's surprising success at the Irish election last weekend.
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