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To all the pubs we’ve loved before – Three Goats Heads

Week 7 – for the normal student, we are approaching the end of term, for the less normal; it is hack week on St...

Stop Me If You’ve Heard This One Before: Week 3

"Each week, Rufus brings you a poem along with his thoughts on it. This week, he looks at The Winter Palace, by Phillip Larkin."

Stop Me If You’ve Heard This One Before: Week 1

"Rufus' second column of the term looks at the poem Spring by Gerard Manley Hopkins."

Forget Her Not: Rediscovering Women in Music- Week 1

At fifteen, I was fully and completely obsessed with the Californian soul/alternative R&B/jazz/funk band The Internet. It is for this reason that I can...

To all the pubs we’ve loved before: Crown Vs. Turf

Today we are putting two classic favourites, the Crown and Turf Tavern, head-to-head. Turf is arguably the most famous pub in Oxford. It was...

Forget her not: Rediscovering women in music: Week 0

"Stumbling upon Fiona Apple’s 1999 album When The Pawn… actually inspired the concept of this column."

Scrapping for Survival

The scrap for survival in the Premier League is always a thrilling spectacle from the neutral’s perspective, but one with potentially devastating consequences for those involved.

The Art of the Self-Tape

"You wake up the next morning fifteen minutes before the submission deadline and after swiping through attempt after attempt of varying degrees of failure eventually arrive at the very first take."

The centre cannot hold – What is the Republican Party?

And it looks as though there will be a next time. I think Trump will run, and if/when he does, he will almost certainly be the Republican nominee; frankly he will be quasi-coronated.

An overflowing pot: how to avoid boiling over at uni

"There are only 24 hours in the day and unfortunately, I need to sleep for eight of them."

The academia video game: the gap year

"I don’t think I would be where I am without my accidental gap year.

A folly in vain

"The day proceeded as a series of endless lines parading back and forth, adorned in seemingly endless variations of every possible garment, in front of the same blank faces."

New term, new you— whatcha packing?

"Think of the people in your life and I bet you think of them in that one certain, purely them outfit."

South Asian upbringing: Bollywood as propaganda

CW: Violence, discussions of Nazism Under the supervision of Joseph Goebbels, Nazi Germany produced 1,200 feature films both before and during the Second World War....

Rory Stewart on populism, podcasting, and why he left...

The students working to tackle homelessness

Union holds referendum following mass resignations and a speaker...

Abolish the high table

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