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

Emma Cooley Jun 10, 2026 7 min read
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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…

Braids: How do they represent us?

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“Hair represents us. It is a means of self-expression, and a channel for our creativity, used for centuries, if not millennia, in this way. Since…

What’s in a Title

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As You Like It at Green Templeton College Garden: Reviewed

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The play was a success: entertaining, well-staged, and followable without a necessarily perfect understanding of the Shakespearean language.

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