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after 2 years on the Telegraph’s grad scheme I’m very happy to say that I’m staying on permanently as a Health Features Writer. excited to be starting this week!
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miss that bit of Waterstones where u can sit with ur coffee and spy on ppl milling about town
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a lecturer and five students walk into a bar. it's only illegal if they talk about maths
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How an unknown 23-year-old podcaster bagged an interview with Tony Blair
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what is Oxford doing not everyone lives in a country mansion with a study and unlimited access to books ahhhhhh
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In Westminster today, where campaigners staged a huge “night carnival” to call for the release of Julian Assange from London’s Belmarsh Prison
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referring to your boyfriend’s ex-girlfriend’s new boyfriend as your ‘boyfriend once removed’
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Cate Blanchett Q&A — Lydia Tar would have had Bob Dylan “on repeat”
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today's my first day as an editorial graduate at
@telegraph
! you can get in touch with me at lauren.shirreff
@telegraph
.co.uk :)
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some news! 🗞
I’m very happy to be starting on the graduate scheme at
@Telegraph
in September
+ next week I’ll be going to San Francisco for my
@GeddesTrust
Payne Prize reporting project - please say hi if you’ll be around (or want to catch up before I go!) ✈️
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it was incredible to speak to Holocaust survivor Lily Ebert and great-grandson
@DovForman
at Windsor Castle today
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So happy to have won this - I’ll be in California over the summer (covid allowing!)
The
@GeddesTrust
is delighted to announce that
@laurenshirr
of
@BalliolOxford
has won the 2021 Ronnie Payne prize for foreign reporting. Well done Lauren!
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Return flights from London to New York are currently going for about the same price as a round train journey from London to Newcastle
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Oxford could ban staff-student relationships after successful campaigning by
@ItHappensHereOx
and many other students who brought motions to their JCRs. In
@thesundaytimes
with
@SianGriffiths6
!
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Cambridge admitting disadvantaged students with BBB will identify talent, not undermine it. Wrote about being working-class at Oxbridge for
@Telegraph
- thank you
@Pravina_R
for the commission!
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Monday was my last day on politics! I've now joined Features for the next few months. please get in touch about all sorts - I'm still on lauren.shirreff
@telegraph
.co.uk 💌
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first time on the splash!
The front page of tomorrow's Daily Telegraph:
'Council tax to double for 80pc of second homes'
#TomorrowsPapersToday
Sign up for the Front Page newsletter
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my german boyfriend just said he’s never heard of “””hob nobs””” maybe Brexit is for the best
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After a great few months helping to launch the Telegraph's new Health section, I've now joined the Lobby team for my next placement. You can still reach me in my DMs or at lauren.shirreff
@telegraph
.co.uk 🗞️
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the lovely (and free to visit!) Botanical gardens at the Barbican. had no idea they existed until this afternoon
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I’m very excited to be starting a placement on the Telegraph’s money desk today! my email is lauren.shirreff
@telegraph
.co.uk 💸
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dissertation handed in an hour ago and I can already feel my skin becoming clearer
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after I go back to oxford I’m never complaining about that place again. b*lliol college I’ll mow quad myself every day just let me back in
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meanwhile, the north of england
London ‘could be split between Tier 2 and Tier 3’ to keep capital open - would this work?
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🥴 this will put so many kids from first-gen backgrounds off university study
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no way!!! noooooooo way!!!!!
People with strong northern English accents are viewed as “less intelligent” and “less educated” than their southern counterparts, a study has found
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oh to be in a bad oxford club with the vengaboys playing in the background, £6 double vodka lemonade in hand, swaying awkwardly and waiting until 1am so I can go home without being rude,
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the idea that young people need to be ‘coerced’ into getting the vaccine is so weird to me - I’d get it in a heartbeat if it was on offer, and most others would too
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“I’m not really in it for the money. If I was, I’d probably sell something like ketamine.”
I spoke to an ‘LSD specialist’ who lives in an Oxford college for
@VICE
(ty
@ryanbassil
!)
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I’ve been lifting weights/strength training 3 or 4 times a week since March and I absolutely hate to say it, but the benefits just are as good as they’re made out to be
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nurse: congratulations your surgery was a success
dominic cummings: where’s boris?
nurse: omg....who do you think gave you the heart?
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but why did they ask this
🚨 | BREAKING: Londoners would only wait 12 hours after a nuclear war before eating beloved domestic pets compared to a national average of 9 days, new research reveals.
Story:
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Oxford and Cambridge must let in offer-holders whose grades have been slashed by the standardization process. My piece for
@spectator
:
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Imagine banging on about access, mental health + quality individual education to then turn around and do this in the biggest national crisis of our lifetimes :))))))
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Got the chance to cover something I care about a lot for
@timesredbox
! The current pressure on schools is pointless if it isn’t met with a change in the law (with massive thanks to
@patrickkmaguire
for letting me rant about it)
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after a great first few months at the Telegraph, I'm very excited to be starting a placement at
@PA
this week! I'm at lauren.shirreff
@pamediagroup
.com
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london in the sun is making me very happy to live here !
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finally made it to the Knossos exhibition at
@AshmoleanMuseum
yesterday - it didn’t disappoint!
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I hate living in “”unprecedented times””. give me my precedent back
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realised I never posted what I wrote for
@FromSurvivors
; about women experiencing violence in otherwise consensual sex and how (and why) it’s normalised
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absolutely deranged yougov poll
Can Santa be gay?
A Norwegian advert recently ruffled some people's feathers for showing Father Christmas with a boyfriend, and Britons are divided:
Acceptable: 39%
Unacceptable: 41%
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oh dear … the surprising health benefits of sub-zero temperatures
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Oxbridge’s attitude to state school students has already changed for the better — it’s time for the Education Secretary to catch up.
I wrote about it (with no paywall!!) for
@Pravina_R
’s awesome new Quickfire section 🔥
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For many people this isn’t news; if it is for you, then please take a minute to read about this issue. Oxford needs to do a lot better by its disabled students.
Evidence shows lecturers tampering with microphones and consistently not turning recording equipment on, an investigation by The Oxford Student can reveal.
#disabledstudents
#oxforduniversity
#lecturecapture
@OxfordDisCam
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After a great 3 months on the Telegraph's Money desk, I've now joined Health Features for my next rotation. You can still reach me at lauren.shirreff
@telegraph
.co.uk
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I have a new job!
Interested in learning design, inclusion and equity - and how tech can help make workplaces and universities more inclusive spaces?
Follow us on
@GoodCourseLearn
! 👀
Welcome to the team Lauren - having a content wizard on our side is going to be huge!
@laurenshirr
@GoodCourseLearn
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magic mushrooms on the NHS? it’s more likely than you might think…
a deep dive on the new world of psychedelic medicine (free to read!)
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The Moritz-Heyman bursary especially was a massive help for me and honestly has made my life at uni much more financially sustainable than I think it would have been anywhere else (especially at my other top choices which were Durham + Edinburgh)
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More than 500 students came to protest at a demonstration organised by
@womcam
and
@HereOxford
last night! And almost every club in Oxford had to close - because so many students were out protesting their lack of action on spiking.
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about to hit annoying men in oxford with facts when I go back for third year
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if I'm honest I think I'd just rather be able to rent a flat on my own without it eating my entire salary ...
Two things govt should immediately do for young people:
1. Build student halls-type housing for subsidised rent for yp in their early 20s in areas where lots of jobs - modern version of 1970s London hostels.
2. Big expansion of degree apprenticeships.
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this AND a deer park?? magdalen is truly on another level
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also my first ever single byline in print (!)
I spoke to young people with vaccine-hesitant parents about their feelings towards getting their covid jabs, and their thoughts on vaccine passports. Low uptake in young people here shows that vaccine scepticism isn't such an 'American thing' after all:
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went to Rome/ate a lot of pasta/visited a lot of churches last week
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lectures being online next term would be ok I think (and really good for a lot of people) but worried about what this means for living in college
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oxford’s decisions rn are disappointing but in character - no excuse good enough for missing an essay, 5th week blues normal because it’s natural to be overwhelmed by the workload, guess doing a term/sitting finals mid pandemic is just something to be powered through too
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throwback to digging holes in Austria for three weeks straight and finding: an icecream wrapper from the 80s
A Hungry Badger Accidentally Uncovered More than 200 Roman Coins, According to Archaeologists
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yes I’m going into my final year at uni but only in a ‘specific and limited way’
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londoners have a bad reputation for being mean/unfriendly, but I’ve managed to leave my purse on the tube on like five separate occasions and someone has always been nice enough to make sure I get it back
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in my last (ever) week on the oxstu, I'd like to share the best thing we've published in the last thirty years
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oh and it doesn’t look like they’ll let anyone rusticate! even if you’re a finalist, you can only come back to do exams! fantastic
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the worst part of finals revision is the sheer embarrassment of reading your second year essays
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OMG, I just got elected! My night watching Britain’s youngest MP, at 22 years old, win the race for his seat
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throwback to when I dug through a 2000 year old wall on fieldwork but they said it was ok cause at least I found it
Newly discovered just outside of Verona, what could be this year's biggest discovery - an almost entirely intact Roman mosaic villa floor!
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I use LinkedIn about once a month and this time it was to block my ex
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this has taken on a new meaning in the last few hours
yes I’m going into my final year at uni but only in a ‘specific and limited way’
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if I lived on this street I would bury myself in my back garden like a mole
Residents in Grappenhall near
#Warrington
keep to
#coronavirus
rules by performing socially distanced conga to celebrate
#VEDay75
. More in
@BBCNWT
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thinking about her (common ground cafe and workspace)
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If anyone else is still in Oxford: there’s zero queue for a vaccine at Mansfield Road right now, took me ten minutes to get mine!
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Tears in the dock, disbelief in the gallery: Inside a Liverpool court processing far-Right rioters
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or the Culture Secretary could involve more people from the north and midlands in heritage and culture decisions because we deserve a say, not because we all have the same "anti-woke" views (whatever that even means...)
Red Wall voters to replace 'metropolitan bubbles' on culture and museum boards, pledges Oliver Dowden
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The Telegraph’s graduate scheme is open for applications again — it’s a brilliant opportunity that I couldn’t recommend more. Feel free to DM me if you’d like to hear about how I’ve found it so far! 👇
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the reading for my diss is...interesting? is this me enjoying my subject for the first time since prelims?
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icon
@JennyScoones
kindly let me ask her questions for the OxStu - check it out and
#streamrealgirl
!!
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ignoring the actual news, beginning the year by reading a LadBible article about the man who got so drunk he legally changed his name to Celine Dion
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@evebennettx
dhal!! literally just fry some onions and garlic and spices u like, whack some lentils in (split pea is best), add chopped tomatoes + coconut milk + leave for 40 mins-1hr on low heat. maybe add some spinach if u wanna be healthi. def add naan. hope u feel ok 💓
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A bone of contention … 🐕
How lawyers are handling a growing number of “dog divorces” for their London clients
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quora is maybe the only platform with more absolutely deranged takes per person than twitter
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