Saturday 25th October 2025

Lifestyle

The erotic life of the mind

At Oxford, desire often wears a gown. It speaks in footnotes, engages in debates in the smoking area, and sends you into an existential crisis because it used ‘dialectical’...

Oxford, gone decaf

When I was having lunch with a friend, I ordered my usual, a double...

How to survive Oxford

Welcome to Oxford, the place where ambition goes to drink, cry, and write 3,000 words on “liminality” at 3 a.m.

The incandescent and the immovable

I went to Ometepe in search of a view, but found something closer to...

Travel: 4th Week MT

Bianca Gillam on exploring Morocco and not riding camels.

Alessandra Steinherr and the contradictions in beauty

Alessandra Steinherr, Glamour's beauty editor, talks about bodies, the beauty industry and feminism

Bexistentialism: MT14 Week 3

Life gets tough for our bexistentialist

Creaming Spires: 3rd week Michaelmas

Ava Gina experiments with lace and leather...and gets a disappointing result

Social democracy through the prism of Eleanor Marx

Sara Semic speaks to historian Rachel Holmes about the revival of Marx and why feminism needs to include men too

Travel: 1st week MT

Phoebe recounts the boat trips and culinary delights of India

Bexistentialism: MT14 Week 2

Bex has a vodka-induced revelation

Creaming Spires: 2nd week Michaelmas

Ava Gina marches to the beat of her own drum(ming crotch)

Not much naked Ambition

Ching Lee finds that Jamie’s Italian isn’t as daring as you might expect

Bexistentialism: MT14 Week 1

It's a ditzy start to Michaelmas

Cocktails with Cai: Sex on the Beach

Things get a little raunchy this week with a Peach Schnapps based classic

“A stunning place”

Ibaad Alvi takes a punt on a meal at the picturesque Cherwell Boat House

Bar Review: Somerville

Maggie Thatcher's old stomping ground proves to be a waste of time

Oxford HUB: Student-powered social action at the TSK

Tutku Bektas talks about the new projects run by the Oxford Hub, promoting student charity and ethics

Creaming Spires: 1st week Michaelmas

Ava Gina learns her boundaries in the bedroom

Deep Cover: an alternative night worth going to

Naomi Polonsky explains why we should forget about gimmicky throwback nights in favour of real music

From the pub to the peaks

Samuele Volpe took a trip to the hills and watering-holes of the Lake District

Creaming Spires: 0th week Michaelmas

Ava Gina discovers the perks of the post-grad

Adventure in Tanzania: Climbing to the top of a continent

Stephanie Sy-Quia reflects on her once in a lifetime expedition for RAG to the peak of Mount Kilimanjaro

Cocktails with Cai

Give your year the perfect start with the famous gin-based Aviation

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