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Bison Blunder From US National Parks

by Mia Clement May 19, 2021July 18, 2021

Palestino

by George Hancock May 14, 2021May 16, 2021

Arab Spring – A Decade On

by Lily Shanagher December 21, 2020December 21, 2020

Oxford Students Protest in Solidarity with Indian Farmers in Largest Global Protest in Human History

by Anvee Bhutani December 12, 2020December 13, 2020

Joe Biden: America’s choice, the world’s victory

by Anonymous Contributor November 10, 2020May 5, 2025

The UK’s Asylum Interview – Ineffective and Inhumane

by Freya Rennison September 11, 2020July 18, 2021

Global Snapshots: Coronavirus Weekly Updates

by The Oxford Blue Global Affairs Team August 16, 2020July 18, 2021

Rising child murder rates in South Africa intensify parole reform efforts

by Ana Silvia Gheorghe April 13, 2020April 13, 2020

Coronavirus threatens international adoption process and well-being of adoptees

by Bry Toon April 11, 2020July 18, 2021

Activism in lockdown

by Carlotta Hartmann April 6, 2020July 18, 2021

Why I Refuse to Wear The Red Poppy

Lleucu Haf Dec 5, 2025 4 min read

Department for Culture, Media and Sport, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

It is the 11th of November again, the date when the guns fell silent in 1918, when an armistice was signed in France marking the…

Telltaylor: By a Lancashire Farm Shop, I Sat Down and Wept

Alicia Taylor Dec 4, 2025 9 min read

An image of the Radcliffe Camera against a sunset sky, with the text 'TELLTAYLOR' written in front.

“I was always a muse, a magician’s trick, bending my own image to enhance his own. He seemed to compliment me only if the words fit…

Do different languages change the way we think?

Sophie Harrison Dec 4, 2025 5 min read

The Tower of Babel by Pieter Bruegel the Elder (1563), public domain

According to the legend of Babel, the existence of different languages on Earth began as a punishment. Humanity, daring to build its tower skyward, was…

Meta-Whorf-asis: on litost and translated fiction

Orla Case Dec 3, 2025 6 min read

Meta-Whorf-asis: on litost and translated fiction

‘The term depicts a feeling “as infinite as an open accordion, a synthesis of grief, sympathy, remorse, and indefinable longing”, which begs the question –…