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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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Oliver Buckingham Mar 13, 2026 6 min read
Elephants in Sri Lanka.

The sun rises on a Sri Lankan paper making factory. Machines whir to life as workers stream through the doors. Wet pulp begins to be…

John Webster’s The White Devil at St John’s College Auditorium: Reviewed

Oliver Buckingham Mar 13, 2026 6 min read
The cast of The White Devil

If you think your family tree is complicated, you haven’t tried to keep track of the complicated web of relations that is John Webster’s 1612…

The Snowdrops of Oxford

Oliver Buckingham Mar 12, 2026 4 min read
The Snowdrops of Oxford

Though the cosiness of winter is often longed for during the height of summer, the novelty soon wears off when it arrives in full force.…

Resistance: Food That Refuses to Be Instagrammable

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Resistance: Food That Refuses to Be Instagrammable

On social media, food seems to belong to a very particular visual world — bone china, ceramic bowls, wooden boards, linen napkins, candle-lit tables. Steel…

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