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Billie Marten on growing, teenage regression, and her upcoming album Dogeared

“When people listen to your upcoming album Dogeared, where should they imagine you writing the songs?” Musician Billie Marten, on the other end of the...

Ocean Vuong on kindness, Buddhism, and the limitations of writing as a medium

A queer Vietnamese refugee who fled to America with his family, Vuong has won acclaim for his novels, poetry, and essays.

Oxford’s influencers: Student life, filtered through the screen

Oxford has often seemed a mysterious place. An online generation is getting a new but still curated glimpse of life under the dreaming spires

Character of Mr Hitchens

I It is a cool smoky morning in January outside Taylors deli on St Giles. Peter Hitchens padlocks his bicycle to a lamppost and accompanies...

Cheap cashmere in freezing February

Cashmere is a luxury fibre, warm in winter, sustainable, but you may have been put off in the past by its rocket-high prices. In...

Who is Oxford’s Coffee Shop Artist? In conversation with Julia Whatley

Julia sees herself as the conduit through which an artistic vision is realised. Where does this vision come from? “Somewhere else.”

Interview: Richard Lance Keeble

Richard Lance Keeble is Professor of Journalism at Lincoln University. He was a journalist on local newspapers in Nottingham and Cambridge and editor of...

In conversation with ‘The Children’

‘If you’re curious as to how and why cows, nuclear reactors, tricycles, peperami, and old people doing yoga all fit into one play…come and...

Oxford Horror Soc, un-earthed

The Oxford Horror Soc, led by Izzy Reese, is Oxford’s first and only society dedicated to the on-screen horror genre.

James O’Brien on Brexit, Boris Johnson, and making radio go viral

"Nigel Farage thought he was coming in to have his tummy tickled. I helped him soil himself."

Max Fosh on viral pranks, comedy tours, and the art of posh self-deprecation

Max Fosh is a YouTuber and stand-up comedian, who first garnered acclaim for his StreetSmart series of street interviews. Fosh then expanded towards more...

In conversation with Moe Sbihi, the British rower ‘Stockholm Syndrome-d’ into Olympic gold

Three-time Olympic medallist, World Champion rower, MBE, the first British Muslim Olympic flag bearer: the highly decorated Moe Sbihi seems to have done it...

In conversation with Oli Dugmore, the mind behind PoliticsJOE

Oli Dugmore, known best as the mind behind PoliticsJOE, echoes many of the views young, disillusioned voters hold.

Spotlight: Swift Soc President, Lola Milton-Jenkins

Out of all the societies at Oxford, Oxford University Taylor Swift Society is one of the biggest, with around two thousand members. Seraphina Evans...

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