Saturday 1st November 2025

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Chivalry in the age of automatic doors

The waiter has just brought the bill, irritatingly diplomatic in his placement – middle of the table. You both glance at it, then at each other, caught in that...

TLDR: Literacy in the digital age

No one reads these days. If it’s longer than an Instagram caption, it’s not...

The erotic life of the mind

At Oxford, desire often wears a gown. It speaks in footnotes, engages in debates...

Oxford, gone decaf

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

"So, could Jesus come back as a woman?"

Last week's Text-a-Toastie gets Liz English thinking beyond Cherwell, work and Park End

Interview: MJ Delaney

Erin Goldfinch talks to rising director MJ Delaney about her break into film making

Creaming Spires: 4th Week Hilary

Ava Gina considers the benefits of 'flicking the bean'

Freddy the Fresher 2014: Part 5

Freddy storms to victory on University Challenge

Review: Atomic Pizza

Alex Bleasdale revisits an old Cowley favourite

Bridget Jones on Valentine’s Day

Sara Semic contemplates flying solo on February 14th

Hollie McNish interview

Amelia Anderson talks to performance poet Hollie McNish about the politics of poetry

Freddy the Fresher 2014: Part 4

Freddy recalls an amorous encounter in typically theatrical fashion

Creaming Spires – 3rd week Hilary

Guest columnist Hugh Japenis reflects on a lad's holiday of sun, sex and busty Bavarian

Freddy the Fresher 2014: Part 1-3

Freddy's adventures in Oxford continue in this uncut collection of the first three entires of Hilary

Review: Yeti

Alex gives Nepalese cuisine a go

In Defence of Horseradish

Tom Wood makes a case for this British classic

Creaming Spires: 2nd Week Hilary

Ava has an international sexperience

An Ode to Procrastination

Chloe Ingersent celebrates the ultimate library companion...a good dose of procrastination

Interview: Kris Hallenga

Erin Goldfinch talks to CoppaFeel! founder Kris Hallenga about cancer detection

Creaming Spires: 1st Week Hilary

Ava finds a new way to save the pennies...

Review: The Fishes

Alex Bleasdale heads out of town for some New Year gluttony

Free booze (almost)

Andy Hamilton helps ease your overdraft

Review: Thirsty Meeples Board Game Café

Meeple: A character or object representing the player in a board game

Review: Red Star

Alex Bleasdale espouses the virtues of a firm Cowley favourite.

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