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Author Archives: Laura van Heijnsbergen

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Outside OX1 Week 3 – An update on the US presidential campaign, a new UK Budget, the Commonwealth summit and a alleged assassination attempt on the Bolivian President

by Eric Balonwu, Laura van Heijnsbergen, Katarina Harrison-Gaze and Nick Marshall November 1, 2024May 29, 2025

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I have now finished my long eight-day stint of shifts. In the next few days off that I have, I look forward to utilising my…

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The play was a success: entertaining, well-staged, and followable without a necessarily perfect understanding of the Shakespearean language.

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