Oscar Quine
Oscar Quine is a freelance journalist with an interest in politics and popular culture. He is completing an MA in Journalism at Goldsmiths.
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Consumers urged to ‘fight back’ against payday loan sharks
05 August 2013 12:01 AM
Payday loan customers who have been mistreated by a lender should feel confident in their ability to “fight back”, the consumer rights body Citizens Advice has argued.
What’s eating Giles Coren? Twitter victim Mary Beard comes under fire for breaking website boycott
04 August 2013 08:51 PM
Critic turns on TV historian after she breaks 'Twitter silence' to highlight bomb threat
Labour MP David Lammy: burial of report on 2011 riots an insult to victims
04 August 2013 06:08 PM
The Government has been accused of “insulting” the victims of the 2011 summer riots by burying their formal response to a report on the unrest and failing to act on its 63 recommendations.
‘This is our area - we have a right to live here’: Southall Black Sisters unite against ‘racial profiling’ with spontaneous protest
02 August 2013 07:51 PM
In Southall, women take on border agency officers in a show of defiance
Spanish train crash: 'I keep thinking, I was actually there... that was almost us'
02 August 2013 06:13 PM
An English woman teaching in Spain was on the train before it crashed. Oscar Quine hears her story
Music review: Chic featuring Nile Rodgers, IndigO2, London
29 July 2013 11:10 AM
“We're going to start with a song we did for Diana Ross, then another song we did for Diana Ross and then one we did for Sister Sledge - and we’re going to keep going until we take it to the top floor.”
Page 3 Profile: John Williams, composer
29 July 2013 12:00 AM
De de de de de de de de... What’s that?
Leave the Royals alone? If only it was that simple
25 July 2013 01:46 PM
The monarchy has played the PR game for generations
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Is the Muslim call to prayer really such a menace?
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Channel 4 to 'provoke' viewers who associate Islam with terrorism with live call to prayer during Ramadan
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US army doctor returns arm to Vietnamese soldier fifty years after he took it as a souvenir
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Police seize possessions of rough sleepers in crackdown on homelessness
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Demand for food banks has nothing to do with benefits squeeze, says Work minister Lord Freud
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