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Is Reading Still Relevant? 

“At a university built on reading, in an age where machines can do it for us, do we still believe reading matters?” Ngoc Diep (Alice) explores the impact of AI on our academic approach, questioning whether reading has lost its relevancy. Image by Vincenzo Malagoli via Pexels

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The Peace Dividend is over

“There is no help on the way. No one is going to save us this time. There is no arsenal of democracy across some vast sea, ready and waiting to rush Europe’s defence as the United States did in 1917 and 1941.  Europe is alone. It must prepare for the worst.” Arun Lewis discusses how…

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The Inability to Read for Leisure Disease

“I miss the way books used to feel. The weight of a novel in my hand on a rainy Sunday. The joy of finishing a sentence and rereading it just for the pleasure of the cadence. I miss the companionship of characters I used to meet between pages. So I’ve decided, I want that part…

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Global Affairs

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Amman: The Sound of Air-Raid Sirens

“Air-raid sirens wailed inside my head. Jolted awake, I stumbled around trying to find my phone. Arabic reverberated unclearly, a Jordanian official’s voice booming from, from somewhere, saying something, I couldn’t make it out.” Eva Morgan gives her first-hand account of the air-raid sirens over Jordan this week, offering a unique perspective into…

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COLUMNS

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Love Letters: The Last One

‘Perhaps I’m hoping that this column had that effect on someone: the same effect as a kind conversation during an essay crisis. ‘

CULTURES

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Iago: Working Class Villain?

“This piece is an expression of my distaste for Coleridge’s ‘motiveless malignity’. It is a rebellion against the usual ideas thrown at English students when studying Othello for A-Level. Instead,…

LIfestyle

Identity

Oxford: Love in the Rearview

What would you do if you had a relationship with a time limit? If, on a predetermined date, all that was your love and your life would cease to exist?…

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Inadequacy

January — a month that often has been disregarded as boring, was something that once offered me solace. When I was younger, the thought of becoming an adult excited me…


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