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Cartoon: ‘Have a restful vac!’

The Easter vac, anticipated

Opinion Caitie Foley -

Tutorials are the antidote to declining public speaking skills

We struggle in an era where much of our most important communication takes place in writing

Opinion Sophie Price -

Unhappy feet? Uni on thin ice over welfare penguins

Penguins should never be a prize for completing a Bodleian Libraries survey

Opinion Natalie Duffus and Tom Pavey and Will Paine -

Oxford now has the right approach to animal testing

The current position of involving animal testing in research, but not teaching, is best

Opinion Arun Lewis -

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Access fatigue at Oxford: Letting ‘them’ in and letting ‘them’ down

"...my own feelings towards outreach are a lot more complex than they were when I first started."

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What’s in a name? The social inequality attached to where we go to school

"If you go to a school with a widely known ‘name’ then, whether you want it or not, people perceive it to be one of your characteristics."

Linguistic hypocrisy: Rhetoric on refugees

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Sale of Blackwell’s: The long-term defence against Amazon

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France’s far-right: a vast minority

"Le Pen has [...] achieved popularity by rebranding herself and her party in an unsettlingly soft light."

As a Palestinian NUS delegate, I say that tolerance of antisemitism within our student spaces must end

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Calorie labelling is not a miracle cure for obesity, it’s proof that the government has failed those with eating disorders

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Opinion

Cartoon: ‘Have a restful vac!’

Tutorials are the antidote to declining public speaking skills

Unhappy feet? Uni on thin ice over welfare penguins

Oxford now has the right approach to animal testing

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