Columns
A crash course in British politics: An introduction (Week 0)
If you are reading this you most likely live in the United Kingdom. You might also, like me, be new here. As a first-year international student, I suddenly find...
Sound And Vision: Better Call Saul’s Perfect Montage
"The perfect song choice is instrumental in creating the perfect montage".
Work/Life Balance at Brookes
It is vital to recognise when to ask for help, and to know where to ask for it. Sharing a problem can often lighten the load of the problem. That’s part of the learning experience.
Striking the balance at university
"I wish I could be in two places at once, but as fun as this term has been, I am also aware that it has been packed that little bit too full."
Forget the Blues – It’s time for Oranges!
"I realised essays can be hard, but they can also be fun, and they can also be difficult, but then I can have a dance afterwards."
Day 1 – Au Paris
Libby Bull describes how her travels to Paris went "off the rails"!
The Watched Pot: On the joys of truffle hunting
Every time you go to the supermarket, open a cookbook or go on social media, you are absorbing contemporary food culture and it’s influencing...
Hysterical Histories: Horrid Henry VI
October 2021 will mark the 550th anniversary of one of the most bizarre, yet relatively unknown, events in human history: the restoration of Henry...
Will Neill’s Real Deal: Tory Conference and the Politics of Inhumanity
Week one of Michaelmas term, and Freshers Flu has swept through Oxford like a tsunami. Hacking coughs, snotty noses, and cold sweats are currently...
Behind the Screens: Power, Sex, and the Male Gaze in Cinematography
As the camera decides how the audience is to feel about certain events and characters, it is certainly not a neutral agent.
They Always Knew (after Daddy)
I weep like a child, despised, licking my wounds, the very dog you slew, forever, forever, the wandering Jew.
Out of the Frame: Botticelli’s La Primavera
Approaching the end of term and after a period of delay, spring has finally sprung. It is a time of the year which is...
The Undercurrent: Miffed monarchists march on Magdalen
It’s exhausting for normal students who just want to get on with our lives without provoking adult men into social media hissy-fits every time we move a muscle.
Cher-ity Corner: Oxford Pink Week
“Our key mission is to get people talking about breast cancer, no matter how uncomfortable it may be. By normalising the conversations about breast cancer, we can encourage people to check themselves and potentially save lives if abnormalities are caught quickly.”
Haute Kosher: when they come, they come for all of us
This is a phrase I often repeat to myself when I find myself falling into the trap the far left often encourages: stop focusing...
Cher-ity Corner: Target Schools Oxford
“Target Schools is Oxford SU's home of student-led access work, with the overall aim of widening participation and improving access to higher education (specifically to Oxford) for students from under-represented backgrounds.”
Out of the Frame: Gericault’s Raft of the Medusa
The act of representing the truth is something which is made more complicated than it needs to be: we post pictures of ourselves after...
The Undercurrent: Oriel’s blue-worthy mental gymnastics on Rhodes
My working theory is that this is Oriel’s last, desperate attempt to shut students up by literally stunning them into silence.
WATCH3WORDS: The Father – Moving.Bleak.Blue
'The take is an original one, but the result is often jarring. At times, the film feels more like a subdued horror with the jump-scares replaced by time-jumps, time-loops, and figures mysteriously appearing from previously empty rooms.'
