summer Archives - The Oxford Blue

Interview with OUCC Men’s Blues Vice-Captain Saqlain Choudhary

by George Roberts June 6, 2025June 6, 2025

A game of touch rugby outside at a sports ground.

Sports in Trinity Term – What to look out for!

by Julie Urban May 5, 2025May 30, 2025

Image shows author walking through greenery.

(Dis)abled: The Holidays

by Ruby Bailey-Proe November 1, 2024November 1, 2024

Paris 2024: A Greener Olympics?

by Freya Aylmore August 24, 2024August 24, 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: Vacation Fear and Trembling

by Chloe Smith March 6, 2024March 6, 2024

A Tokyo Summer Internship

by Alice Grant September 25, 2023September 25, 2023

Review: Wadstock 2023 – The Big Bash to Kick Off the Summer

by Niamh Stansfield May 1, 2023May 1, 2023

A fever dream in India

by Khadijah Ali November 11, 2022November 11, 2022

Less is More

by Riana Modi and Sophie Benbelaid September 16, 2022September 16, 2022

An Identity in Flux

by Hannah Selig August 12, 2022August 12, 2022

Excess and Essays: A Visiting Student’s Reflection

Isobel Gurnett May 2, 2026 7 min read

An image of the Farmers and Mechanics Branch of the PNC Bank in Georgetown, Washington DC

“This would be my third university in three years, and I was well-practised in the ritual of formulating one’s persona. Feigning the aloof disinterest one…

Biodiversity for profit? Power and accountability at IPBES-12

Hannah Smith May 2, 2026 5 min read

Drone shot capturing lush green fields and trees

Niamh Tooher evaluates the success of the IPBES-12 conference in effectively aligning business and biodiversity, in a space where corporate presence was found lacking. Image…

Bonaly’s Backflip Returns to Olympic Ice

Thomas Yates May 2, 2026 4 min read

Figure skater Surya Bonaly, competing in 1992.

“She decided that she’d lose on her own terms. As a statement against judging bias, Bonaly performed the first and only illegal backflip on Olympic…

David Marmet’s Oleanna at New College, Oxford: Reviewed

Nancy Pierre May 1, 2026 5 min read

The two protagonists of Oleanna; the professor is reading an essay to his student.

David Mamet’s Oleanna is a difficult play. Difficult in that it raises hard questions about how we respond to claims of sexual harassment and imbalances…