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Food in Ramadan: Fast or feast?

Take a deep breath in, and hold. Hold it for as long as you are able to (without passing out), and then, once your lungs are pleading for air,...

A day in the life of an Oxford influencer

“Yet though they might be close physically, sometimes watching these videos makes me feel worlds away from the lives they live”

To all the pubs we’ve loved before – Three Goats Heads

Week 7 – for the normal student, we are approaching the end of term,...

To all the pubs we’ve loved before: pitch(er) perfect

The fifth week blues are hitting so we are combatting them with blue lagoons!...

To all the pubs we’ve loved before: The House

For the classier among us, sometimes pubs and pints aren’t always what you’re looking...

Living Internationally: Thoughts of a second-year linguist

Erin Goldfinch looks ahead to a year abroad of dubious accommodation, rugby and potential self-discovery

Country Diary: Shotover

'Places are not the same by night. They are transformed. Shapes and forms take on different sizes, colours and shades. Perspective becomes blurred, sounds sharper'

Country Diary: The Water Meadow

“Under no circumstances should any students enter the Deer park. We will treat this extremely seriously”

Country Diary: Fiddler’s Island

'There’s a wonderful feeling of freedom that comes from being in the water, especially here where it is deep enough to kick your legs out without touching river-bed'

Country Diary: Wytham Woods

'In such a forest there is of course much more than visual pleasure; there’s the sound of wind bending and creaking age-old timber, or the whiff of damp leaves, the smell of air, damp, imbued with life.'

Country Diary: Port Meadow

'Port Meadow is steeped in myth; it’s the unploughed landscape, the land earned from resisting the Danes, a sacred spot where the Freemen graze their cattle'

Houmous Girl – 5th week Trinity

Rower Lad's date with Houmous Girl gets slightly off track...

Balling: The best route to quick cash

Cherwell Lifestyle looks at the highs and lows of working at Keble's night of Russia-themed decadence

Creaming Spires – 5th week Trinity

Ophelia Balls gets over-familiar with a friend

Houmous Girl – 4th week Trinity

This week sees Houmous Girl relay the tale of a burgeoning Oxford romance

Interview: Chang-rae Lee

Rhiannon Gibbs-Harris speaks to author Chang-rae Lee about the self, bad reviews and golf

Creaming Spires – 4th week Trinity

Ophelia Balls heads to Cowley in search of the Hipster

Houmous Girl – 3rd week Trinity

The characters of Oxford are feeling the pinch

Shakespeare Re-imagined: a Novel Choice

Sara Semic speaks to author Marina Fiorato about ink and virginity in 'Beatrice and Benedick'

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