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Author Archives: Izzy Lucas

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This Is How We Walk On The Moon: a Review

by Izzy Lucas November 21, 2023November 21, 2023
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The Blueprint, Issue no.13: Summer 2023

by Niamh Walker, Izzy Lucas, Eliza Munday and Liberty Brignall November 6, 2023November 15, 2023
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Wadham College Garden Play: The Comedy of Errors

by Izzy Lucas May 27, 2023May 26, 2023
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This House Believes That Politics Could Be Kinder

by Izzy Lucas and Lucas Haskins March 10, 2023
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Intro To Art History: ‘The Star’ by Degas

by Izzy Lucas May 30, 2022May 30, 2022
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The Best, Worst Book(s) I’ve read

by Izzy Lucas March 20, 2022June 24, 2022
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Books that Made Me: “Les Misérables”

by Izzy Lucas January 26, 2022January 26, 2022

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Izzy Lucas May 13, 2026 10 min read
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“Every time I have read fantasy I always emerge far more enchanted with my own world. What I had considered ‘meh’ before, glancing at it…

How to spend your money whilst keeping your morals

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Spotlight – A short-term joke, a never-ending nightmare: what is OCD?

Izzy Lucas May 13, 2026 7 min read
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As someone with OCD, it feels like there’s two voices in my head: my own, and my OCD’s. A voice that whispers intrusive thoughts to…

The barrier didn’t fall. It moved: Who really ‘belongs’ at Oxford?

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In 2024, state school admissions to Oxford stood at 66.2 percent, down from a higher  68.6 percent in 2021. These pupils are among the  93…

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