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A Camera Roll in Language

by Ruby Sampson November 20, 2025November 21, 2025

So Bad, it’s Good: In Defence of A Minecraft Movie

by Rohit Ghosh June 14, 2025June 13, 2025

Food

Flavours of Home: Tempura, a Metonym

by Zac Yang June 7, 2025June 7, 2025

Image depicting a tide coming in along the edge of a beach. Image taken by Ben Harris, sourced from geograph.org.uk, Wikimedia Commons,

Blissfully Ignorant: Why Growing up Fast isn’t Always a Virtue

by Arun Lewis March 7, 2025March 5, 2025

a small cup of coffee on a multicoloured background

What makes somewhere home?

by Maryam AlKetbi February 26, 2025February 25, 2025

Missing My Mum’s Miso Salmon

by Nina Naidu June 6, 2024June 6, 2024

(Dis)abled

by Ruby Bailey-Proe February 16, 2024May 12, 2024

This illustration shows an alcove filled with personal items, including a teapot and toy ballerina, with the column’s title ‘Sublime Drizzlings’ in the background

Sublime Drizzlings: Looking Through the Hourglass

by Chloe Smith February 8, 2024February 8, 2024

French Travels: II. Bordeaux, Quel Bordel!

by Klara Zhao September 15, 2021September 22, 2021

French Travels: I: Off Again, Just Under the Channel

by Klara Zhao September 3, 2021September 22, 2021

A Tour of The Grove: Oxford’s Newest Student Theatre Space

Janik Peeters Mar 20, 2026 5 min read

A student theatre set with two actors and a wooden structure which looks like a house.

“the Grove, with its top-of-the-line sound and lighting, traditional architectural backdrop, and grander scale, is certainly a theatre worth watching out for” Janik Peeters tours…

The Sabotage of Modernity

Rohan Shah Mar 19, 2026 5 min read

The Sabotage of Modernity

“Thunderstorm with glimmering lightnings over ocean” by Lachlan Ross, https://www.pexels.com/photo/thunderstorm-with-glimmering-lightnings-over-ocean-6510369/ In recent times, we seem to be intoxicated by the heady spirits of progress and…

Outside OX1 Week 8: Chile, Nepal and Mandelson

Lola Dunton-Milenkovic Mar 16, 2026 16 min read

Image Credit by Evie Fairclough-Kay

Welcome back to this term’s final issue of Outside OX1! Hilary has flown by and Trinity with its blossoming flowers and sunnier days awaits. What…

Locking Horns: Past Conflicts Threaten to Re-emerge in the Horn of Africa

Lola Dunton-Milenkovic Mar 16, 2026 14 min read

A man walks past a wrecked tank in Tigray Region, 2021.

Six years after Ethiopian prime minister Abiy Ahmed won the Nobel Peace Prize for bringing an end to a lengthy military standoff with Eritrea, and…