Living through a pandemic is jarring: it feels like we have all been thrown into a dystopian book setting rather than the reality we are all used to. The news we have overwhelms us with problems that are on a worldwide scale- a scale that is often too huge for us to begin comprehending, let Read More…
The Blue is expanding its team of illustrators for TT20. Grab your pencils/watercolours/graphics pens, because we have mountains of projects incoming.
Engineers and medics from University of Oxford and King’s College London are building and testing prototypes for rapidly-deployable ventilators for use on COVID-19 patients. OxVent is a multidisciplinary team of engineers, anaesthetists and surgeons at Oxford and King’s who are building and testing prototypes for such ventilators. The aim is that the ventilators can be Read More…
Four men were hanged last week for the rape and murder of a student on a New Delhi bus in 2012. The executions marked the end of a landmark case which gained international attention and prompted rapid reforms of sexual abuse legislation in India. In 2012, six men attacked a 23 year old physiotherapy student Read More…
Oxford University has been accused of neglecting student welfare in its response to the controversial cancellation of UN Women Oxford’s ‘Amber Rudd: In Conversation’ event for International Women’s Week. The Presidents Committee released on Wednesday an open letter to the Vice-Chancellor. The University chose this week to deregister United Women from its affiliated societies and Read More…
Just as shocking as the thought that the footballing globe might stop spinning due to the recent Covid-19 outbreak is the idea that the media satellites that orbit it might simultaneously come crashing down. The age of social media has only multiplied the number of pre-existing sources of dissection of the minutiae of footballers’ performances, Read More…