Sharon Chau
Labour, Get Off Your Moral High Horse
Keir Starmer’s tweet on 19 February 2021 reads, ‘Harold Wilson said the Labour Party is “a moral crusade or it is nothing”’. This...
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daily espresso XII: bullshit jobs
One of my favourite books of all time is by David Graeber, provocatively named Bullshit Jobs: A Theory. As the self-explanatory title...
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daily espresso XI: the French are rude?
One of my bosses was in a meeting where I was taking the minutes - and he’s a big potato, so I was sat all prim and proper, afraid even...
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daily espresso X: meta espresso
For my tenth (finally after much procrastination!) daily espresso, I wanted to do some meta investigative work. One very cool feature of...
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daily espresso IX: tiger parenting vs DINK
At work, my team asked me who I had had lunch with. I replied that my sister Helen was opening a new American bank account at HSBC, which...
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daily espresso VIII: long d
Today marks Hari and my 'one month long-distance anniversary'. When I announced that at family dinner, my mom remarked, 'Kids these days...
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daily espresso VII: snow white skin
I was having breakfast with my dad this morning, before we took the MTR (the tube) to work together. It’s become a really nice routine,...
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daily espresso VI: beach please
Today was family beach day, which Helen and I had been looking forward to for a while. We were going with our family friends, who owned a...
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daily espresso V: book fair and Hong Kong politics
Last night, I went to the Hong Kong Book Fair with one of my besties and fellow book lover, Gwyneth. The fair is a massive event hosted...
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daily espresso IV: bamboo ceiling and racism
Yesterday, I had a nice chat with one of my best friends, Trevor, an incredibly clever economist who has an equally clever blog (check it...
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daily espresso III: working hard vs hardly working from home
I was sent home from work a couple of days ago because someone from the office had caught Covid, and my manager was unfortunately a close...
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daily espresso II: why my family data plan disproves the collective action problem
My family shares a data plan, where we have 20GB per month between the four of us. There is some control over the distribution of data...
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daily espresso I: porn vs erotica
I’ve made a summer resolution to post on my blog every day. The reason behind this is simple: I’m currently paying for a website which...
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Review: The Right To Sex By Amia Srinivasan
Coined by Judith Butler as a ‘major new work of feminist philosophy’ that ‘opens up debates about sex, pornography, justice and liberty’,...
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Review: 2021 Laundry List of Books
This article was also published on The Oxford Student. Link: https://www.oxfordstudent.com/2022/01/09/review-2021-laundry-list-of-books/....
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Why I dreamt of becoming a housewife
When I was 16, my life aspirations were pretty simple. I wanted to be a housewife. I wanted to graduate from a good uni, get a good job...
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Voter ID: Detrimental to democracy?
This article was co-authored with Ciara Garcha and published as a debate piece in The Oxford Student on 30th May 2021. Link:...
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Should feminists advocate for men’s issues?
This article was co-authored with Uri Shine and published as a debate piece in The Oxford Student on 26th May 2021. Link:...
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Being a "Slut"
It all happened last Sunday night, when my mother came home from a dinner with some other parents. She was sobbing. I tried asking her...
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100 Years of Women at Oxford
Image Credits: St. Hugh's College This article was published in Cherwell on 14 Dec 2020. Link: https://cherwell.org/2020/12/14/100-years-...
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