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Author Archives: Clive Stafford Smith

Clive Stafford Smith is a human rights lawyer. He spent 15 years with his legal action charity Reprieve, and has more recently founded the 3dc, which seeks to help young people identify their ‘element’ and create jobs in human rights, climate action and social justice.

To find out more about how you can work in this field, feel free to contact him: clive@3dc.org.uk.

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Welcome back to another issue of Outside OX1! After the winds Storm Chandra brought, resulting in obscurely alternating days of bright sunshine and grey clouds,…

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It certainly is an impressive sight. Enormous pyramidal glass panels line the outside of the Grand Egyptian Museum (GEM), a site spanning 500,000 square metres.…

InterMEDIAte: The Liminality of us all

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“Whenever I feel unsure about my identity I play DtMF, while Lux accompanies me when I want to explore the female experience. They both take…

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