Mark Donovan took time out of his season preparations to chat to the The Oxford Blue about his experience as neo-pro riding on the World Tour last year; training and competing for Team DSM, and his aspirations for the coming session.
Author: Oliver Bater
0liver Bater is an Opinion Editor for the Oxford Blue. He is going into his second year studying Politics, Philosophy and Economics at St Edmund Hall. When not at Oxford, he lives in Hong Kong.
CloseTheLockdownGap with Mustafaen Kamal
Oliver Bater speaks with Mustafaen Kamal, who has founded an initiative to provide free tuition to students worst affected by the latest government and is looking to Oxford Students for help.
“For a country that is at the forefront of education, with some of the world’s leading universities, to face this level of inequality is startling. The fact that an initiative like ours even exists seems to me quite a damning statement about the political situation in the UK. Our aim is to arrange 100,000 hours of tuitions for students, and we hope that the expertise of our tutors can help make up for some of the time lost in the classroom.”
Letters to the Editor Vol 3
Our readers contribute to the debate surrounding remembrance poppies – and also about an apparent oversight on the paper.
Sleepy Joe is no Crooked Hillary
Oliver Bater discusses why Trump’s attacks on Biden are failing.
Johnson should embrace, not suppress scrutiny
Oliver Bater explores how Johnson’s recent poor performances at Prime Minister’s Questions expose a more fundamental weakness with his leadership: a fear of criticism .
Could COVID-19 end Donald Trump’s presidency?
Oliver Bater discusses the impact Trump’s poor management of coronavirus may have on his popularity.
Lives or money: A false dichotomy?
Oliver Bater discusses the wider problems that lockdown causes.