Imogen Forrest, Author at The Oxford Blue

Image Credit: Imogen Forest, taken in Italy

Opinion

We should have left ‘whimsy’ in 2025

by Imogen Forrest June 20, 2026June 20, 2026

An elegant, old-fashioned lady walking her dogs along a beach

Lifestyle

Walking in silence: a lost art?

by Imogen Forrest June 15, 2026June 15, 2026

A group of friends setting up a meal together

Food

Proust’s Madeleine: The Hidden Power of Food.

by Imogen Forrest November 16, 2025November 16, 2025

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Opinion

The Relevancy of A Languages Degree in The Age of AI Translation.

by Imogen Forrest November 14, 2025November 11, 2025

Tommy Robinson Appearance at Oxford Union Sparks Mass Protest

Imogen Forrest Jun 27, 2026 3 min read

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Who Gets to Remember?: When nostalgia becomes dangerous

Imogen Forrest 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

Imogen Forrest 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…

In Defence of the Bachelor Life

Imogen Forrest Jun 20, 2026 5 min read

An anonymous author writes about their experience of being aromantic in a society that values romance above other types of love.