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Who cares about college politics?

I’ve found myself part of a small core of my JCR who still care about JCR politics – those who fulfill a minimum requirement of simply turning up to things. Needless to say, the bar is low.

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Criticisms of Oxford slang aren’t really about language

Sub fusc, college marriages, BOPs, sconcing, Prelims, the Bod: Oxford boasts a unique catalogue...

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Why you should talk to your scout more

Quite apart from our academic work, students at Oxford University lead a life very...

Opinion Tarana Varma -

Livin’ la vida Lidl

Though I still have reservations about milk from Lidl – I swear it tastes different – and the eggs from Aldi look to me dull and pale, I can put aside these quibbles as I admit to the allure of a £1 bag of courgettes. All this to say: Oxford’s city centre needs a discount supermarket.

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Elizabeth the Last: What next for the monarchy?

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The University must take a look at itself before dishing out trashing fines

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The changing role of Christianity in British society

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Conditional allyship? Queerness and censorship in Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore

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Oxford isn’t designed to change

"Oxford is doing what it is designed to do: reconstruct and renew Britain’s elite first, act as an educational institution second."

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."

Oxfess: Why the fixation?

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

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Linguistic hypocrisy: Rhetoric on refugees

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

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Who cares about college politics?

Criticisms of Oxford slang aren’t really about language

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