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Author Archives: Lottie Newell

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The niche, the funny, the outrageous: Halfway Hall 2024 in review

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Let’s paint this town pink: Pink Week 2024 in Oxford

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Oxford Chancellor Lord Patten announces retirement

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Oxford University Conservative Association Divided as Two Members Claim the Presidency

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by Madaleine Pearce, Lottie Newell and Lucas Haskins May 16, 2023May 16, 2023

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

Lottie Newell 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…

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“Let’s say you’ve written a novel. Now comes the tricky question: what punchy word or phrase could you possibly use to encapsulate your story? You…

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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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