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Britain on Holiday: a Beast Caged

by Poppy Thornton February 19, 2024April 29, 2024

A Room of Our Own

A Room of Our Own: Making an Honest Woman out of Me

by Nina Naidu February 6, 2024February 6, 2024

A Room of Our Own

A Room of Our Own: Biting Off More Than I Can Chew

by Nina Naidu February 2, 2024February 2, 2024

I would like to thank Jo March…

by Libby Morrell February 2, 2024February 2, 2024

Columnism, Columns, Identity

Paradise Lost; Croissants Found?

by Poppy Thornton February 1, 2024April 29, 2024

The illustration depicts a selection of ornaments, including a ballerina, candle, teapot, shell, and other decorative objects. The text ‘Sublime Drizzlings’ can be seen in the background, seemingly a handwritten note.

Sublime Drizzlings: Circling Back to 1908…

by Chloe Smith January 31, 2024February 2, 2024

Shakespearean Shortcomings: Body Politics and the War Declared on the ‘Body Natural’

by Naomi Finapiri January 23, 2024January 23, 2024

A Room of Our Own

A Room of Our Own: The Devil Finds Work for Idle Hands

by Nina Naidu January 19, 2024January 19, 2024

Poetry in the Digital Age: Instapoetry and Rupi Kaur’s Impact

by Nina Naidu November 25, 2023November 24, 2023

Remembering June Jordan

by Alice Watkinson November 10, 2023November 10, 2023

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 –…

Having a bath: it’s time to come clean

Matthew Donnelly Dec 3, 2025 4 min read

Jean-Pierre Norblin de La Gourdaine, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Embedded in British culture is a conspiracy of silence around what must be domestic life’s most overrated activity. Mention baths in polite company and faces…

Zootopia? Urban foxes are Oxford’s cleverest companions

Ilse Von Heimburg Dec 2, 2025 3 min read

a fox on a roof in an urban environment

As a visiting student from the United States, I had never seen a fox outside of a zoo before, let alone one in an urban…

The Politics of the Prop: Analysing Hanson’s Parliamentary Pageantry.

Saba Ahmadzadeh Noughani Dec 2, 2025 11 min read

The Politics of the Prop: Analysing Hanson’s Parliamentary Pageantry.

On 24 November, Pauline Hanson, a long-serving far-right Australian senator and leader of the far-right anti-immigration One Nation party, wore a burqa in the Australian…