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Rare Aesthetic: getting your first essay back and realising you kind of suck

by Téa Sands November 19, 2025November 19, 2025

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Rooted and Restless: Eco-Anxiety and the Inheritance of a Collapsing Earth

Téa Sands Nov 19, 2025 5 min read

As climate systems collapse, biodiversity vanishes, and the seasons turn strange, the rising anxiety among young people isn’t a disorder. It is a diagnosis.

Rare Aesthetic: getting your first essay back and realising you kind of suck

Téa Sands Nov 19, 2025 5 min read

“I threw in as much secondary criticism as I could find, hoping desperately that Derrida and Calvino could drown out my voice, or lack thereof.”…

Protesters Gather in Oxford to Protest the Proscription of ‘Palestine Action’

Téa Sands Nov 19, 2025 3 min read

On Tuesday 18 November, a group of around 30 protesters met outside the Clarendon Building in central Oxford to protest the government’s proscription of the…

The Dutch Elections: a Lesson for Liberals?

Téa Sands Nov 19, 2025 9 min read

On October 29, Dutch voters returned to the polls a lot sooner than they may have hoped. On June 3, after only 11 months in…

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