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Oxford meets Hackney meets Mexico City: Bigfoot reviewed

I kept noticing this decidedly cool bar a little way down the Cowley Road. With fairy-lights strung across its wooden terrace and ‘Bigfoot’ scrawled in playful letters across the glass, it seemed slightly out of place on Cowley Road.

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Gen Z and Oxford: Nihilism inside the bubble

We all know that Oxford can feel like a bubble. Every day brings new challenges and new deadlines, to the extent that a week can pass in an instant and there is just no time to peek outside of the blinkered existence of tutorials and the occasional pub trip. But this tunnel vision can become restrictive, and even self-perpetuating.

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The (family) stories hiding in plain sight

Like many people, I used to zone out when my parents started talking about family history.

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A body of one’s own: Medical mystery in the modern age

Recently, I found myself marooned in that most demoralising of places, the NHS waiting list. I was soon falling down the rabbit hole of catastrophisation, after succumbing to the inevitable temptation of googling my symptoms (it wasn’t looking good).

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Lifestyle

Oxford meets Hackney meets Mexico City: Bigfoot reviewed

Gen Z and Oxford: Nihilism inside the bubble

The (family) stories hiding in plain sight

A body of one’s own: Medical mystery in the modern age

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