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

Columns

Second Draft: Notting Hill and table football

by Eleanor Davies December 11, 2025December 11, 2025

An illustration of a map of Western Europe with an arrow connecting Leipzig and Oxford

Columns

Return Flight: Jumping Back In

by Esmé Hubbert November 21, 2025November 21, 2025

An indian home buffet including chicken curry.

Lifestyle

Flavours of Home: My dad’s chicken curry

by Aria Chakravorty May 17, 2025May 17, 2025

Columns

Sublime Drizzlings: Vacation Fear and Trembling

by Chloe Smith March 6, 2024March 6, 2024

Identity

When it Rains in Oxford…

by Arani S Hazarika November 25, 2023November 25, 2023

Second Draft: Teary-eyed goodbyes

Eleanor Davies Jul 23, 2026 10 min read

Illustration of themes and objects relating to Oxford.

“For the past 20 minutes, I have been staring at an empty word document. This was categorically not the plan. When I started writing my…

Tommy Robinson Appearance at Oxford Union Sparks Mass Protest

Christine Savino Jun 27, 2026 3 min read

Image credit to Thomas Yates, used with permission.

Who Gets to Remember?: When nostalgia becomes dangerous

Isabella Hamilton Dale Jun 21, 2026 7 min read

The wisteria on the wall of Jesus College, Oxford.

“At the individual level, the mismatch between memory and history appears fairly harmless. For the collective, it can be terrible. The present, the only actuality,…

Monoculture isn’t dead, it’s online

Rohit Ghosh Jun 21, 2026 6 min read

A LAN party in the Winter 2004 DreamHack.

Culture feels chaotic right now. The times of communion over music videos on MTV are officially over, and our lives are split across millions of…