By Chloé Agar So, we’ve survived the New Year, almost got through Veganuary, and have even started Hilary Term. What more excitement could there be? Well, music releases, of course (work with me here). While it is still only January, and I might be setting the bar very high, there are already some fantastic pop Read More…
Month: January 2020
Review: Merrily We Roll Along
In Plato’s ‘Republic’, Socrates tells Cephalus, ‘They say for the rich there are many consolations.’ The Goya Theatre’s production of Merrily We Roll Along provides the antithesis. The play/musical follows the lives of a group of people that eventually break through in the entertainment industry, firstly at Broadway and then perhaps, drearily predictably, in Hollywood, Read More…
Local Guide: Jiaqi’s Geneva
Jiaqi Kang gives us the inside scoop on her favourite places to eat, drink, study and have fun in her home-town of Geneva!
Bushwick, NYC: “A liberal paradise becoming a parody of itself “
Daisy Goldman writes her take on Bushwick in New York City, commenting on the neighbourhood’s new hipster-esque idiosyncrasies in contrast to its working class history.
BREAKING: Student stand-off persists at St John’s rally
A solidarity rally was held outside St John’s College today by Oxford Climate Justice Campaign (OCJC) to pressure the College to divest their £551 million endowment from fossil fuel companies. The College is known to have invested £8.1 million in the oil and gas majors Shell and BP and is suspected to have exposure to Read More…
Winning the Nobel Prize: It’s not Rocket Science, it’s Physiology
Sir Peter Ratcliffe and William Kaelin are two of the three current Nobel Prize Winners for Physiology or Medicine (2019). At the Oxford Union, we discussed their research on an oxygen-sensing mechanism in the cell and the journey that led them to this discovery.
Travel Stories: A Cab Ride in French Polynesia
In the first edition of our Travel Stories series, Molly Ross writes an evocative and colourful description of a particularly memorable cab ride in Cook’s Bay, French Polynesia.
Love Island meets literature: a Love Island poetry discussion
The appearance of yet another season of Love Island on our screens this winter stands testament to the prominent position it currently holds in pop culture. At a time of political upheaval and social instability, what does our obsession with the lulling sound of ‘I’ve got a text’ and the ‘do bits society’ tell us Read More…
Wime Reviews: Tesco’s Finest is actually pretty fine
Rowan Ireland on Tesco’s Finest Montepulciano d’Abruzzo: “Desperate and gritty, like your five-year-old begging you for ice cream from a shop on the beach…”
UPDATED: Students set up camp in St John’s
On Wednesday, ‘dozens of students’ will begin occupying the front quad of St. John’s college. After months of frustratingly unyielding negotiations between students and staff, this escalated action represents the latest attempt to urge the college to divest from fossil fuels.