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Cowley Flavors: Real Kungfu Noodle

by Shixin Zhao May 13, 2025May 14, 2025

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Ovary It: Of Course I’m Angry

by Issi Marklew May 13, 2025May 13, 2025

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Love Letters: Grey Hair

by Lucy Pollock May 11, 2025May 11, 2025

Ugly Feelings: The Sting and The Shove

by Briony Arnott May 10, 2025May 10, 2025

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‘Is it better to speak or to die?’: Diaries of a Thought Son

by Jaami Al-Choudhury May 7, 2025May 6, 2025

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Your College Auntie: End of Term

by Anonymous Author March 23, 2025March 23, 2025

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Love Letters: Goodbye Hilary!

by Lucy Pollock March 23, 2025March 23, 2025

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You are not a firework. You are a torchbearer.

by Mili Thakrar March 20, 2025March 20, 2025

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The Ten-Minute Night Out

by Eleanor Ware March 18, 2025March 18, 2025

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Diaries of a Thought Son

Diaries of a thought son: ‘Handsome but not my type’

by Jaami Al-Choudhury March 17, 2025March 17, 2025

Flavours of Home: My dad’s chicken curry

Aria ChakravortyMay 17, 20252 min read

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“To my family, a little more means a little more love.” Aria Chakravorty teaches you how to make her dad’s chicken curry. Image by Aria…

Outside OX1 Week 3: Kurdistan, Fishing and Merz

Daniel BurnsMay 17, 202510 min read

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The Global Affairs team explore the biggest news from this week, including the disbandment of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, Merz’s start to European politics, and…

Breaking: New Pro-Palestine Encampment Established

Nithusha SathyendranMay 16, 20252 min read

Breaking: New Pro-Palestine Encampment Established

At around 7pm on Friday 16 May, following a march from Cowley which began at Manzil Way Gardens, Oxford Against Genocide have established a new…

Death of a Salesman at the Pilch: Reviewed

Hannah StewartMay 16, 20255 min read

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“Throughout the play, it becomes an evident and gutting realisation that, for the Salesman, ‘the only thing you’ve got in this world is what you…