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Author Archives: Oliver Buckingham

Oliver Buckingham is a writer for The Blue, and has his own blog at https://whirlwindofscrappaper.com/. He is a History and Politics student at Lady Margaret Hall, and writes about politics, foreign affairs and books. When he’s not doing that, he’s constructing a flux-capacitor and bathing in a tepid chrono-synclastic infundibulum. He serves pan-galactic gargle blasters at seven.

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Minority Report: Blame The Terrorists, Not Us

by Oliver Buckingham October 10, 2021October 10, 2021
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Minority Report: I Am A Proud Human Supremacist

by Oliver Buckingham September 30, 2021September 30, 2021
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Minority Report: TOTAL BETRAYAL (4) – A Bungled Evacuation

by Oliver Buckingham September 15, 2021September 15, 2021
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Minority Report: TOTAL BETRAYAL (3) – With Friends like These

by Oliver Buckingham September 13, 2021September 13, 2021
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Minority Report: TOTAL BETRAYAL (2) – The Future We Chose

by Oliver Buckingham September 6, 2021September 13, 2021
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Minority Report: TOTAL BETRAYAL (1) – Terror of the Taliban

by Oliver Buckingham September 6, 2021September 6, 2021
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Swapping Shoes: School

by Sharon Udott, Deborah Ogunnoiki & Oliver Buckingham, Deborah Ogunnoiki, Sharon Udott and Oliver Buckingham August 20, 2021August 20, 2021
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Minority Report: Don’t Keep The Faith

by Oliver Buckingham August 19, 2021August 19, 2021
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Minority Report: Apartheid in the Name of Covid

by Oliver Buckingham August 12, 2021August 12, 2021
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Minority Report: The Olympic Naysayers are Always Wrong

by Oliver Buckingham August 7, 2021August 7, 2021

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The Physicist Behind the Turl Street Orchestra: In Conversation with Dr. Felix Tennie

Oliver Buckingham Dec 15, 2025 6 min read
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“If I had no music, I wouldn’t be as productive of a physicist. Whenever I don’t get to make music for a time, I become…

Snow

Oliver Buckingham Dec 15, 2025 3 min read
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‘If something is frozen we say it’s unchanging — that it stays.’ Nina Sablan’s creative piece about snow and its effects on our landscape. Image…

Who am I? Finding my identity between two languages

Oliver Buckingham Dec 13, 2025 4 min read
Duke Humfrey's library

That person, no matter what they do in the present, will always be defined by what they did. In the country where I was born,…

Outside OX1 Week 8: End of Term Special

Oliver Buckingham Dec 12, 2025 22 min read
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The Editor’s Note As the end of term is finally here, many will be lacing up their skiing boots; or enduring painstaking journeys home around…

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