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Review: Corpus Christi
Once in a while you want to remain in your seat after the closing credits appear - you find yourself unable to...
Thursday, November 26, 2020
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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...Oxford City Council’s new Anti-Racism Charter faces criticism
Oxford City Council’s newly launched Anti-racism Charter is facing criticism from the Coalition of Black Communities and Communities of Colour.Oxford study reveals the effect of lockdown on disadvantaged children
A recent study run by five leading UK universities, including the University of Oxford, suggests that the development of young children from...BREAKING: University reports drop to 40 cases this week, lateral flow tests for all students confirmed
Oxford University’s testing service has confirmed 40 cases of COVID-19 among students and staff for the week 14th-20th November, with a positivity...
- Opinion
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."The American Story, Part One: The Founding
"More pertinently, America’s slave-owning ‘fathers’ understood ‘freedom’ because they denied it to others.... Slave-holder Thomas Jefferson was qualified to write the Declaration of Independence, in part, because it was he who understood ‘freedom’ and its denial best."A message for non-Jews
"Please, non-Jews who are reading this: step up and show you care, even a little. Educate yourselves, and do some of the work for us."
- 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,...
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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"The Lord is a Warrior
"Now, God’s people are soon to flee, Into the wilderness and coarser sands He takes them, they at last are free, But I, loyal servant, loving wife, What is God’s plan for me?"A Letter To Those Whom my Light Will Guide, In Honour Of Those Whose Light Has Guided Me
"What you are, is complicated. And I love you for that, Because you are complicated, Because you are raw, and soft, and broken."Return to Oxford
"A peal of percussive raindrops tumble from towering heavens. A lonely leaf joins the fray in a willowing, whispering wash."
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