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Growing Up: The Beginning of an Oxford Experience

by Nancy Pierre December 9, 2025December 9, 2025

Food

Flavours of Home: Tempura, a Metonym

by Zac Yang June 7, 2025June 7, 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: Grey Hair

by Lucy Pollock May 11, 2025May 11, 2025

Photo of a shirtless man sitting inside a sauna.

20 minutes in a gay sauna: A lesson about trying (and failing) to grow up

by Anonymous Author March 7, 2025April 6, 2025

Illustration of a laptop with a job search on the screen, a mortarboard, and a 21st birthday cake against a colourful background.

Third Year Thoughts: Turning 21, Getting a Job and “Growing Up”

by Kiaya Phillips January 20, 2025February 15, 2025

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Sublime Drizzlings: Son of a Preacher Man I

by Chloe Smith February 23, 2024March 21, 2024

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Sublime Drizzlings: My Values

by Chloe Smith February 19, 2024February 19, 2024

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Sublime Drizzlings: Looking Through the Hourglass

by Chloe Smith February 8, 2024February 8, 2024

COP30: Behind the Scenes

Elana Roberts Jan 20, 2026 18 min read

Image taken by Merna Elboghdady, used with her consent in the article. Shows the Global Youth Climate Training team at COP30.

Elana Roberts explores the importance, impact and limitations of COP30, which took place in Brazil. She first traces the historic significance of COPs before interviewing…

In defence of the assisted dying bill

Matt Donnelly Jan 20, 2026 4 min read

In defence of the assisted dying bill

The House of Lords by William Morrison Wyllie (1820–1895), Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons My grandmother died in 2020. At the end of her life,…

The Physicist Behind the Turl Street Orchestra: In Conversation with Dr. Felix Tennie

Luke Erly Dec 15, 2025 6 min read

Dr. Felix Tennie stands outside the Radcliffe Camera after our interview.

“If I had no music, I wouldn’t be as productive of a physicist. Whenever I don’t get to make music for a time, I become…

Snow

Nina Sablan Dec 15, 2025 3 min read

Snow

‘If something is frozen we say it’s unchanging — that it stays.’ Nina Sablan’s creative piece about snow and its effects on our landscape. Image…