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Bursting the Oxford bubble

It seemed like a particularly busy Saturday morning as I weaved through the crowds on Cornmarket street. Extinction Rebellion were out banging drums and passing around leaflets. There were...
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Wags in the Rag: Remembering Manny the tortoise

My parents used to tell me that, back in the 1970s when they were...
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Fifth-week blues

Freshers are confronted with yet another Oxford phrase, ‘Fifth week blues’. By reaching the...
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This House would Legalise Drugs for Personal Use

This week at the Oxford Union, the evening’s main debate concerned the future legality...
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Is an essay crisis preventable?

Every evening at dinner many students stress over their uncompleted work. The term ‘essay crisis’ encapsulates the impending doom of an essay that is...

Wags in the Rag

I have always had a soft spot for cats, having three of my own at home. It might not, therefore, come as much of...

One of the flock

Time passes differently here in Oxford. It is something that I am not sure I will ever get my head around. As I rushed...

Being Scottish at Oxford

When I was seventeen, I moved over three hundred miles from Edinburgh to Oxford. I expected there to be more Scottish students. I pottered...

This House would Boycott the Qatar World Cup

The Oxford Union members warmed up by debating whether "this house would penalise sports teams for their fans’ actions". As this was the second...

Dating at Oxford

The dating scene at Oxford can feel very strange. In my first French tutorial the tutor told us how he met his wife in...

A reflection on Freshers’ Week

A week of forgetting names, failing to log-in to Eduroam, and dressing up as a jigsaw puzzle: I’m pleased to find that freshers’ week...

This House has No Confidence in His Majesty’s Government

The Oxford Union began the year debating whether it had confidence in his majesty’s government, the Truss administration. Difficult question. At 7:50pm, I checked...

Wags in the Rag

Few of Oxford’s college pets are as iconic as Hertford’s college cat, Simpkin. When I first visited Oxford before applying, back in the lockdown...

Bop to the top

Bops are Oxford’s fancy dress parties that form some of my fondest memories in college. For bops held in college bars, there’s no need...

The return to Oxford

The return to Oxford university after the long summer vac provokes mixed emotions. My dog was sad at the sight of my looming suitcase....

Wags in the Rag: Scrumpy and Spangle

In what is often a stressful academic environment, nothing offers greater stress relief than cute animals. College pets are therefore, in my opinion, one...

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