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Comment from the Continent

Comment From The Continent: Santé! Early evening drinks à la française

by Anonymous Contributor February 4, 2022May 5, 2025

Let's Agree to Disagree

Let’s Agree to Disagree: “This Is A Serious Column”

by Jessica Steadman and Katharine Spurrier January 24, 2022February 12, 2022

Meet The Columnists! Part Two

by Jacob Reid, Meg Hopkins and Jade Calder July 19, 2021July 19, 2021

Meet The Columnists! Part One

by Jacob Reid, Sophie Benbelaid, Oliver Buckingham and Laura Norris July 17, 2021July 20, 2021

Must Read Voraciously to Improve Style: Is Elio and Oliver’s leisure idleness or Proustian introspection?

by Sophie Benbelaid July 13, 2021July 18, 2021

I’m A Female Classicist, Get Me Out Of Here!: Why Classicists Deserve More Credit

by Alannah Burdess August 5, 2020August 5, 2020

Desert Island Picks: Meet the Columnists! (Part 2)

by Victoria Stone August 2, 2020August 2, 2020

Wime Reviews: What Wine?

by Anonymous Author May 31, 2020July 17, 2024

Wime Reviews: Now Drink

by Anonymous Author May 20, 2020July 17, 2024

Wime Reviews: £3.79… Seriously

by Anonymous Author May 6, 2020July 17, 2024

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.