Ben Blackburn, Author at The Oxford Blue

The Oxford Blue Freshers' Guide 2022

Freshers’ Guide 2022

by Lucy Heywood, Leyla Baxman, Ben Blackburn, Guy Ward-Jackson, Amy Ellis Winter, Elisabetta Molteni, Elspeth Knight, Evie Craggs, Frances Dowle, Gioia Grafin Von Donhoff, Hannah-Sarah Selig, Rosie Somers, Sophie Mackenzie, Thomas Britton and Thomas Evans September 17, 2022September 19, 2022

Featured, Features

What it Means to be an Independent Student Newspaper

by Ben Blackburn July 29, 2022July 29, 2022

Meet the Senior Leadership Team

by Ben Blackburn June 22, 2022June 22, 2022

A Word From The Editors

by Guy Ward-Jackson, Lucy Heywood and Ben Blackburn June 20, 2022June 20, 2022

Hear Ye, Hear Ye! An Audible Legacy

by Ben Blackburn February 3, 2022February 3, 2022

The Oxford Blue Freshers’ Guide 2021

by Joseph Geldman, Chen Chen, Amelie Bhaluani, Fariha Uddin, Gloria Morey, Ellee Su, Zahra Grieve, Riana Modi, Jessica Steadman, Hetta Johnson and Ben Blackburn September 17, 2021February 11, 2022

Putting the Genie Back in the Bottle: Professor Alan Smithers on Exam Results and Grade Inflation

by Ben Blackburn September 6, 2021December 27, 2021

Phil and Dom Kwok on entrepreneurship, education and EasyA

by Ben Blackburn July 31, 2021December 27, 2021

The Practical Value of Radical Ideologies

by Ben Blackburn April 7, 2021April 8, 2021

Coronavirus testing with Dr. Lennard Lee

by Ben Blackburn January 28, 2021December 27, 2021

Scenes With Girls at the Burton Taylor Studio: Reviewed

Ben Blackburn Jun 11, 2026 6 min read

Three girls sit and talk on the floor.

“Are they safe, or dangerously codependent? Is this life, paradoxically within and without heteronormativity, sustainable? Is this real girlhood? Is this enough?” Aimee Dixon reviews…

Shell Shock at Corpus: Bernard Wins Trifecta in 2026 Tortoise Race

Ben Blackburn Jun 11, 2026 3 min read

A college tortoise approaches a ring of lettuce.

Bernard the Tortoise won not once, but three times, at the 2026 Tortoise Fair at Corpus Christi. Meanwhile, there was room for humans to get…

The Exportation of British Misogyny

Ben Blackburn Jun 11, 2026 7 min read

Graffiti on a wall

The sound of accordion, and the sweet heavy smell of cinnamon and spices drifted pleasantly through the small winding streets, dappled with pale April sunlight.…

Spotlight – All work and no play makes an exhausted Oxford student

Ben Blackburn Jun 10, 2026 7 min read

Five hardback Russian books

I have now finished my long eight-day stint of shifts. In the next few days off that I have, I look forward to utilising my…