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Author Archives: Mitchell Marshall

Mitch (he/ him) is Editor-in-Chief for Trinity term 2021 as well as a long-suffering Sunderland fan, keen runner and general sports obsessive. His other interests include indie music, arthouse cinema, and coffee.

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CONFIRMED: Most Oxford students will not return until at least January 25th

by Mitchell Marshall January 1, 2021January 1, 2021
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Government orders UK universities to stagger student return as school reopenings delayed by 2 weeks

by Mitchell Marshall December 30, 2020July 18, 2021
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Oxford Adopts IHRA Antisemitism Definition

by Mitchell Marshall December 23, 2020December 23, 2020
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Oxford Food Bank hails Marcus Rashford’s SPOTY Special Award win for 2020 food poverty campaign

by Mitchell Marshall December 22, 2020December 22, 2020
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Concussion protocols in sport: a no-brainer?

by Mitchell Marshall December 20, 2020July 18, 2021
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University Announces Grace Period for Postgraduate Researchers

by Mitchell Marshall December 15, 2020July 18, 2021
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Burning and Parasite: South Korea shows international film at its finest

by Mitchell Marshall November 1, 2020November 1, 2020
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Tao Geoghegan Hart wins Giro d’Italia 2020 – analysis

by Mitchell Marshall October 26, 2020July 18, 2021
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Ineos set for disappointment as Tour de France enters its final week – analysis

by Mitchell Marshall September 14, 2020July 18, 2021
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Why I Refuse to Wear The Red Poppy

Mitchell Marshall Dec 5, 2025 4 min read
Department for Culture, Media and Sport, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

It is the 11th of November again, the date when the guns fell silent in 1918, when an armistice was signed in France marking the…

Telltaylor: By a Lancashire Farm Shop, I Sat Down and Wept

Mitchell Marshall Dec 4, 2025 9 min read
An image of the Radcliffe Camera against a sunset sky, with the text 'TELLTAYLOR' written in front.

“I was always a muse, a magician’s trick, bending my own image to enhance his own. He seemed to compliment me only if the words fit…

Do different languages change the way we think?

Mitchell Marshall Dec 4, 2025 5 min read
The Tower of Babel by Pieter Bruegel the Elder (1563), public domain

According to the legend of Babel, the existence of different languages on Earth began as a punishment. Humanity, daring to build its tower skyward, was…

Meta-Whorf-asis: on litost and translated fiction

Mitchell Marshall Dec 3, 2025 6 min read
Meta-Whorf-asis: on litost and translated fiction

‘The term depicts a feeling “as infinite as an open accordion, a synthesis of grief, sympathy, remorse, and indefinable longing”, which begs the question –…

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