Klemens Okkels, Frankie Coy, Charles Hellens, Author at The Oxford Blue

Global Affairs

The World Beyond OX1 – Week 2

by Klemens Okkels, Frankie Coy and Charles Hellens October 23, 2022October 23, 2022

Germany’s Deciding Year

Charles HellensJan 17, 20257 min read

The Berlin Fernsehturm (TV Tower) extends into a cloudy blue sky in Germany's capital

“Economic stagnation, an energy crisis […], and a subsequent rise in far-right popularity not seen since the Second World War–the current forecasts all suggest that…

Trump’s Cabinet of Curiosities

Charles HellensJan 14, 202510 min read

Jan Maciejewski explores Donald Trump’s top picks for key government departments in his upcoming cabinet through the lens of an unconventional wedding ceremony…

Catastrophe, Climate Change and Celebrities: The LA Wildfires

Charles HellensJan 14, 20254 min read

“With a population of 3.8 million (2023), urban sprawl, a lack of vegetation clearing and an inadequate water system, LA was left vulnerable”. Jess Milligan…

A Tale of Two Colleges

Charles HellensJan 13, 20255 min read

Hands making a love-heart shape around a college crest: half New College and half Exeter College.

“I feel neither completely a student of New College, nor of Exeter, and yet I refer to both interchangeably as ‘College.’” Emma Cooley describes her…