Hilary Term 2020, Issue 2
Sunday, November 29, 2020
- News
Investigation: Toxic Chemical in University Hand Sanitisers
Relisan hand sanitiser, purchased by Oxford University for use in its facilities, has been found to contain a synthetic fragrance called butylphenyl...Roble elected Oxford Union president, CREATE slate wins all major positions
Adam Roble has been elected president of the Oxford Union, winning with 646 first preference votes. He will serve in Trinity 2021.BREAKING: Oxford will enter Tier 2 after lockdown
It was announced on Thursday that Oxfordshire will be placed into Tier 2 after the end of lockdown on 2 December 2020.Students set up Trans Day of Remembrance memorial
Last Friday morning, a group of students woke up at 6am to set up a memorial in honour of Transgender Day of...Oxford Christmas Light Festival organisers adapt to meet COVID guidelines
This weekend’s Oxford Christmas Light Festival will look different to previous years, as the event’s organizers trade in large street performances and...
- Opinion
The American Story Part 2: An unfinished Civil War
"In the years surrounding the Civil War, a bitterly fought tug-of-war over the American historical memory took place."The US Supreme Court: a broken cycle
"The court holds immense power, and politics is the operation of power - of course it would be political."Great Thunberg’s Spitting Image Sketch and the Problem with Political Satire
"Compared to the cutting-edge and culture-shaping Spitting Image of the 80s and 90s, this reboot seems to have taken out its dentures and started sipping the political and environmental crises through a straw."The U.S. election: three students’ perspective
"Joe Biden’s victory is a declaration in favor of science, competence, experience, empathy, and unification. However, the break was anything but clean: a razor-thin margin split blue and red on Election Day."
- Long Reads
Oxford’s Eyesores: Brutalism’s Place among the Dreaming Spires
For most, to think of Oxford is to think of its historic architecture, from the Anglo Saxon Tower of St. Michael and Christchurch’s twelfth...Power of the People: Toppling Europe’s Last Dictatorship
How might a society, in the face of an uncompromising authority and lapdog police force, successfully overthrow a dictator with more than two decades...Wages Against Housework: “More smiles? More money.”
“More smiles? More money.” This was the rallying cry of women around the world in the 1970s. They were adamant that women everywhere should...“Cofiwch Dryweryn”: A Welsh History of Oppression
I am proud of how so many people in my town in rural West Wales have rallied around the Black Lives Matter...Defiance in the face of Danger: Human Rights Activism in Colombia
The inconvenience caused by having to navigate through the hanging faces as you walk from class to class, serves as a reminder of the mass disruption in the lives of the protesters themselves. Activism should not be easy and in Colombia this is a given.
- Science & Tech
Automatic Facial Recognition – A gaping hole in data privacy legislation?
As technology advances, we lose track of the vast amounts of data being stored and our ignorance prevents us from protecting our data in the future.Lateral flow tests accurate enough for community use, Oxford University and PHE announce
New rapid coronavirus tests are accurate and sensitive enough to be used in the community, Public Health England and Oxford University have...Food habits must change to meet Paris Climate Agreement, Oxford-led study finds
According to an Oxford-led study published in the journal Science, even if the world significantly reduces its reliance on fossil fuels, it...Long COVID: What can we do?
In a crisis full of unknown variables, it pays to stay alert for new curveballs to avoid being caught off guard in the future.Rapid COVID-19 test to be trialled on Oxford students
A rapid COVID-19 test that provides results within 30 minutes is being tested on student volunteers at Merton College and St. Hilda’s,...
- Life
- Culture
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Benchmark
"The pattern starts from you to there And, breathless, starts again with me."You’ll See Him
"Rain cracks its whip Against the windows. The wielder: autumn. From the cottage in the cleft of the foothills You can see a flickering light, just out of sight And it stains the blackest night."Soil: On Digging a Hole
"A worm has beaten me to the hole I’m digging; when I pull apart the soil, I find a slender punctuation mark in the mud. Its pink body threads through the dark clay."A Vision of Autumn
"It was uncommonly sultry and dark when I arrived at the Winchester water meadows. The scene was a near stereotype, and it reminded me of those decrepit - far too embellished - landscapes you see in many royal palaces."Petrichor
"in a quiet hollow on the far side of this field rain patters through the leaves like twinkling glass"
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