Finlay Jones, Author at The Oxford Blue

Global Affairs

Serbia: The Students Seeking to “Get into the Construction Site”

by Finlay Jones November 21, 2025November 28, 2025

Artwork of key Oxford Landmarks, such as the Radcliffe Camera and Sheldonian Theatre, within a globe Image. Credit by Evie Fairclough-Kay

Outside OX1

Outside OX1 Week 5: Gaza, Kazakhstan and Colombia

by Sol White, Saba Ahmadzadeh Noughani, Finlay Jones and Gabriela Austin November 19, 2025November 19, 2025

Location Sharing in 2026: Convenience, Safety, or Too Much Information

Finlay Jones Jul 21, 2026 5 min read

Foreword In the past, sharing your location was the exception rather than the rule. But this year, the situation has changed. Students use geolocation to…

Tommy Robinson Appearance at Oxford Union Sparks Mass Protest

Finlay Jones Jun 27, 2026 3 min read

Image credit to Thomas Yates, used with permission.

Who Gets to Remember?: When nostalgia becomes dangerous

Finlay Jones Jun 21, 2026 7 min read

The wisteria on the wall of Jesus College, Oxford.

“At the individual level, the mismatch between memory and history appears fairly harmless. For the collective, it can be terrible. The present, the only actuality,…

Monoculture isn’t dead, it’s online

Finlay Jones Jun 21, 2026 6 min read

A LAN party in the Winter 2004 DreamHack.

Culture feels chaotic right now. The times of communion over music videos on MTV are officially over, and our lives are split across millions of…