• News and Sport
    • Oxford News
    • Sports
  • Opinion
    • Features
  • Global Affairs
    • Outside OX1
  • Identity
    • LGBTQ+
    • Feminism
    • Disability
    • ERM (Ethnic and Religious Minorities)
    • Visiting Students
  • Environment
  • Culture
    • Film & TV
    • Music
    • Theatre
    • Fashion
    • Literature
    • Internet Culture
  • Lifestyle
    • Health and Wellbeing
    • Relationships
    • Travel
    • Food
    • E-Lifestyle
    • Spotlight
    • Oxford Collaborations
  • Columns
    • Previous Columns
      • Beyond the Bubble
      • Love Letters
      • Musings of a Media Lover
      • Beyond the Footnotes
      • Heal Between the Lines
      • Admissions of a Rusticated Student
      • Objectifying Oxford
      • SaTired: Observations of a Finalist
      • Your College Auntie
      • Wine Waffle
      • Borders and Belonging
    • InterMEDIAte
    • Risk Appetite
    • Lady Grinning Soul
    • Second Draft
    • Low Concept
  • Profiles
  • The Bluebell
  • Contact Us
  • Mailing List
  • Alumni – can you help us?
  • The Archive
    • 5 Years of The Blue
    • The Blueprint
    • Freshers’ Guides
      • The Oxford Blue Freshers’ Guide 2024
      • The Oxford Blue Freshers’ Guide 2023
      • The Oxford Blue Freshers’ Guide 2022
      • The Oxford Blue Freshers’ Guide 2021
  • Instagram
  • TikTok
  • Facebook Page
Skip to content
  • Instagram
  • TikTok
  • Facebook Page
The Oxford Blue

The Oxford Blue

Oxford University's Independent Newspaper | Est. 2020

  • News and Sport
    • Oxford News
    • Sports
  • Opinion
    • Features
  • Global Affairs
    • Outside OX1
  • Identity
    • LGBTQ+
    • Feminism
    • Disability
    • ERM (Ethnic and Religious Minorities)
    • Visiting Students
  • Environment
  • Culture
    • Film & TV
    • Music
    • Theatre
    • Fashion
    • Literature
    • Internet Culture
  • Lifestyle
    • Health and Wellbeing
    • Relationships
    • Travel
    • Food
    • E-Lifestyle
    • Spotlight
    • Oxford Collaborations
  • Columns
    • Previous Columns
      • Beyond the Bubble
      • Love Letters
      • Musings of a Media Lover
      • Beyond the Footnotes
      • Heal Between the Lines
      • Admissions of a Rusticated Student
      • Objectifying Oxford
      • SaTired: Observations of a Finalist
      • Your College Auntie
      • Wine Waffle
      • Borders and Belonging
    • InterMEDIAte
    • Risk Appetite
    • Lady Grinning Soul
    • Second Draft
    • Low Concept
  • Profiles
  • The Bluebell
  • Contact Us
  • Mailing List
  • Alumni – can you help us?
  • The Archive
    • 5 Years of The Blue
    • The Blueprint
    • Freshers’ Guides
      • The Oxford Blue Freshers’ Guide 2024
      • The Oxford Blue Freshers’ Guide 2023
      • The Oxford Blue Freshers’ Guide 2022
      • The Oxford Blue Freshers’ Guide 2021

Category: Opinion

Posted inOpinion

A bad year at the office

by Elizabeth Reynard August 26, 2020July 25, 2024
Posted inOpinion

Williamson must stay

by William Atkinson August 26, 2020September 19, 2020
Posted inOpinion

Vote Joe

by Zaman Keinath-Esmail August 26, 2020July 18, 2021
Posted inOxford News

The Refugee ‘Crisis’: All Our Own Making

by Dan Hubbard August 22, 2020August 22, 2020
Posted inOpinion

We don’t need foreign holidays

by Edmund Kelly August 21, 2020July 18, 2021
Posted inCulture, Literature, Opinion

History: A Balanced BA in Five Texts

by Mitchell Marshall August 20, 2020August 23, 2020
Posted inOpinion

An unexpected trans experience: Gender euphoria is what has steered my transition from the very start.

by Hal Milne August 18, 2020August 18, 2020
Posted inOpinion

How is Coronavirus Affecting Democracy?

by Sharon Chu August 17, 2020July 18, 2021
Posted inOpinion

The damage done this Results Day is severe, yet ultimately unsurprising

by Annabelle Grigg August 17, 2020August 17, 2020
Posted inOpinion

Why we need to look beyond grades

by Cora Bullivant August 17, 2020August 17, 2020

Posts pagination

Newer posts 1 … 34 35 36 37 38 … 53 Older posts

Popular Posts

  • Donnington Bridge in the sunlight.
    Tragic Teenage Death Disrupts Summer Eights
  • A view of the Isis with an onlooking crowd.
    Summer Eights 2026: The Action & The Atmosphere
  • Christ Church College Tom Quad
    Should colleges scrap the quad?
  • A garden, covered in litter and assorted furniture.
    Jerusalem at Magdalen College: Reviewed
  • Harriet Wilson and Alex Innes in Our House
    Our House at the Oxford Playhouse: Reviewed
  • CCTV photo released by the NYPD showing the suspect in the Brian Thompson killing at the HI New York City Hostel
    Judge Tosses McDonald’s Backpack, Allows Gun in Mangione Case
  • Crucible cast
    The Crucible at the Michael Pilch Studio: Reviewed
  • Van on fire during the 2024 Southport Riots
    Call the violence in Belfast out for what it is: Pogroms
  • A person playing darts
    The Blue takes on Flight Club
  • A college tortoise approaches a ring of lettuce.
    Shell Shock at Corpus: Bernard Wins Trifecta in 2026 Tortoise Race

The Snowdrops of Oxford

Evie Williams 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

Kamakshi Srivastava Mar 12, 2026 8 min read
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…

The Lifestyle Lowdown: Day Trips

Isobel Jessop Mar 12, 2026 6 min read
The Lifestyle Lowdown: Day Trips

If you’ve got some free time as week 8 draws to a close, why not use it to explore Oxford and its surroundings? Here are…

Oxford’s College Portraits: A Personal History

Evie Williams Mar 12, 2026 6 min read
A sketch of the statue of Antony Gormley.

Evie Williams explores the ‘gallery of Oxonian history’ on every college’s walls, and asks what college portraits tell us about Oxford today.

© 2026 The Oxford Blue Student Newspaper CIC | A new voice for a new decade | Est. 2020. Proudly powered by Newspack by Automattic Privacy Policy
  • Instagram
  • TikTok
  • Facebook Page
Go to mobile version