Culture, Prose

Vicarious Living: News from Abroad

Ianthe Greenwood, Culture Editor Abroad is a foreign country: they do things differently there. As another year starts, a dozen fourth-year linguists readjust to Oriel life after the mythical Year Abroad™, swapping lidos for libraries, finding half the clubs we know have gone and getting mistaken for freshers (ok, just me then). But for the […]

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Culture, Prose

Eurovision 2015: the kitsch-fest comes of age?

2014 by Ianthe Greenwood Our Eurovision correspondent checks out the talent in Vienna.  Love it or loathe it, the Eurovision Song Contest has become a cultural institution over the decades since its first tentative broadcast back in 1956. Over the decades since, it has become synonymous with an annual outpouring of patriotism, extremes of tactical voting […]

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