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Author Archives: Eric Balonwu

Image of Flight Club, and electronic dart board
Posted inLifestyle

Flight Club Oxford: Darts and drinks on Westgate’s rooftop terrace

by Eric Balonwu March 7, 2025March 7, 2025
An illustration of the Radcliffe Camera with hot air balloons with the number 5 and the Oxford Blue Logo
Posted in5 Years of The Blue

5 Years of The Blue

by Timothy Blackburn, Leon Moorhouse, Eric Balonwu, Isabel Valovin and Louis Treasure March 3, 2025March 6, 2025
An illustration of the Radcliffe Camera with hot air balloons with the number 5 and the Oxford Blue Logo
Posted in5 Years of The Blue

5 Years of The Blue: A Letter from the Editors-in-Chief

by Eric Balonwu, Isabel Valovin and Louis Treasure February 5, 2025February 5, 2025
Palestine protestors on the Rad Cam
Posted inOxford News

Breaking: OA4P protestors occupy the Radcliffe Camera

by Isolde Sellin and Eric Balonwu January 24, 2025January 25, 2025
Lord Hague sat with the President of IR Soc
Posted inOxford News

Mandelson and Hague at Oxford IR Soc 

by Eric Balonwu December 3, 2024December 3, 2024
Drawing of Radcliffe Camera in Bubble - Outside OX1 cover image
Posted inGlobal Affairs

Outside OX1 Week 7: A ceasefire in Lebanon, a surprise far-right victory in Romania, an arrest warrant for Netanyahu and backpackers dying in Laos

by Katarina Harrison-Gaze, Eric Balonwu, Jessica Patanaariyangkul and Nick Marshall November 30, 2024December 28, 2024
Posted inOxford News

Breaking: William Hague to be new Oxford Chancellor 

by Eric Balonwu November 27, 2024November 28, 2024
Drawing of Radcliffe Camera in Bubble - Outside OX1 cover image
Posted inGlobal Affairs

Outside OX1 Week 6: Conflict in Ukraine, Tension in Baku, an election in Sri Lanka and protests erupt in New Zealand

by Laura van Heijnsbergen, Eric Balonwu, Katarina Harrison-Gaze and Nick Marshall November 21, 2024December 29, 2024
Drawing of Radcliffe Camera in Bubble - Outside OX1 cover image
Posted inOutside OX1

Outside OX1 Week 4 -Trump’s comeback, Israel bans UN agency, Germany’s government in crisis, floods hits Spain and Glaswegian comedian dies

by Eric Balonwu, Jack Stone, Katarina Harrison-Gaze, Laura van Heijnsbergen and Nick Marshall November 7, 2024December 29, 2024
Posted inOutside OX1

Outside OX1 Week 3 – An update on the US presidential campaign, a new UK Budget, the Commonwealth summit and a alleged assassination attempt on the Bolivian President

by Eric Balonwu, Laura van Heijnsbergen, Katarina Harrison-Gaze and Nick Marshall November 1, 2024May 29, 2025

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Eric Balonwu Jan 20, 2026 18 min read
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Elana Roberts explores the importance, impact and limitations of COP30, which took place in Brazil. She first traces the historic significance of COPs before interviewing…

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Eric Balonwu Jan 20, 2026 4 min read
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The House of Lords by William Morrison Wyllie (1820–1895), Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons My grandmother died in 2020. At the end of her life,…

The Physicist Behind the Turl Street Orchestra: In Conversation with Dr. Felix Tennie

Eric Balonwu Dec 15, 2025 6 min read
Dr. Felix Tennie stands outside the Radcliffe Camera after our interview.

“If I had no music, I wouldn’t be as productive of a physicist. Whenever I don’t get to make music for a time, I become…

Snow

Eric Balonwu Dec 15, 2025 3 min read
Snow

‘If something is frozen we say it’s unchanging — that it stays.’ Nina Sablan’s creative piece about snow and its effects on our landscape. Image…

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