Sunday 12th October 2025

Lifestyle

The incandescent and the immovable

I went to Ometepe in search of a view, but found something closer to a memory. The island floats inside Lake Nicaragua, its twin volcanoes rising like ancient lungs out...

“Have you heard the new Laufey album?”

We all know the type, or at least the meme. The tote-bag sporting, wired-headphone...

The maddening art of procrastination

In delaying and avoiding writing this piece, I am succumbing to exactly what many...

To read or not to read?

It’s 5pm and I’m standing on a packed, unmoving train, somewhere between Swindon and...

What’s cooler than Huel?

It seems man can indeed live on Huel alone. The question is, why would he ever want to?

Letter to: My Crush

At some point or another, each of us has had our very own "lecture bae"

Let’s talk about loneliness over the vac

Size isn't everything when it comes to termly breaks

Booze cruise: Vinnie’s

Discoverng the delights of Pinkies and Perkies at the Blues-only club, Vinnie's

Life Divided: Living In or Living Out?

Daanial Issaq Chaudhry and Fin Kavanagh's confrontation over accommodation

Booze Cruise: Balliol Combine Harvester

Balliol's 'Combine Harvester' is as lethal as it sounds

College families – bizarre or beneficial?

Reflections on the peculiarities of the college family

Laura Freeman: “If you are unwell, you have to find the thing that motivates you”

When Laura Freeman was diagnosed with anorexia, literature saved her sanity. She tells Cara Nicholson that her new book may do the same for others

All the class without the cash

You can still have dinner parties on a student budget

If you can’t handle spice, get out of the kitchen

Eating food from other countries is not an achievement

Blind Date: “I found out I was unintentionally sharking”

Alberico Santiano and Kitty Horsfall make it through a "strained" brunch

Recipe corner: batch cooking

Batch cooking is the secret weapon in any students' arsenal

Night Out: Emporium, the best of the worst

"Moral of the story, kids: aim low, and you’ll never be disappointed".

Recipe corner: veganism

Veganism is not that difficult

Recipe corner: cheese

Cheese can improve any meal

Let’s talk about: Imposter Syndrome

Meha Razdan faces the feeling that you don’t belong

Blind Date: “His T-shirt was just baked beans”

Despite the height difference, Henry Williams and Sophie Gibson see eye to eye

Night Out: the Oxford experience

The trials and tribulations of a typical Oxford night out

Letter to: my neighbour

Julia Alsop airs her domestic grievances

A Letter To: Singles on Valentine’s Day

Meha Razdan gives you her words of wisdom

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