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Celebrity Wine – The Good, the Bad, and the Pricey

by Jack Wharton June 13, 2025June 13, 2025

Photo of scrabble pieces, spelling out the word care.

Yes, uni students do care! Young carers from a distance.

by Freya Gray March 4, 2025March 3, 2025

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The Simple Pleasures of Walking

by Tom Heath February 24, 2025February 24, 2025

Photo of a clock on a background of pink and turquoise.

Why am I freaking out? – An Oxford finalist in 5th week

by Flora Prideaux February 22, 2025February 22, 2025

Illustration of love hearts, flowers, kisses, a letter with love heart stamps.

Love Comes out of The Blue: a blind date at Colombia Coffee Roasters.

by Rosie Creighton February 11, 2025February 11, 2025

The image shows a cream envelope with a small pink heart on the seal. Behind the envelope there is a pink cloud with small pink hearts.

Love Letters: A Warm Welcome

by Lucy Pollock October 27, 2024October 31, 2024

Aeroplane Therapy: Conversations With the Man in the Middle Seat

by Nina Naidu June 24, 2024June 23, 2024

Racial Diversity at Oxford: Going Beyond the Numbers

by Esomchi Iruloh June 14, 2024June 20, 2024

A Room of Our Own: Putting All Your Eggs In One Basket

by Nina Naidu June 11, 2024June 11, 2024

A sliced orange on a white table.

Of Sharing and Oranges

by Jenny Black June 7, 2024June 6, 2024

Outside OX1 Week 4: USA, Sudan and Iraq

Elana Roberts Nov 10, 2025 13 min read

Image Credit by Evie Fairclough-Kay

The Editor’s Note Welcome back to this week’s edition of Outside OX1! With term half-way over already, the deadlines are coming through thick and fast…

Luddite Renaissance: Eleven Months with a Dumbphone

Noah Petts Nov 10, 2025 7 min read

A picture of people in a library common room. Everyone is looking at their phones.

“The first days and weeks were like a rebirth. The magnetism of and cravings for my smartphone faded as it lay turned off in a…

Rising and Falling

Ava Doherty Nov 10, 2025 2 min read

Rising and Falling

‘I write when it’s late, when there’s rum on my breath and salt in my hair’. Ava Doherty’s reflection on waves and creation.

Second Draft: Introductions and long words

Eleanor Davies Nov 10, 2025 5 min read

Illustration of Oxford buildings and study materials surrounding text that reads 'Second Draft'

“I now find myself saying things like, ‘Let’s meet at plodge’, ‘Have you bought your sub fusc?’ and ‘I need to pay my battels’ with…