The seeds of success
A love of Botany has put Julian Grant on the first step towards those ever-valuable ‘CV points’. Reporting from his steamy steamy greenhouse, he argues that maybe extra-curricular activities aren’t so bad after all.
Features: Oxford Rules O.K.
Oxford is an ancient institution, thriving on ancient customs and regulations, however it seems that these antiquated traditions all too often impinge on the lives of those of us living and working within the institution on a day-today basis. A lot has been said and written recently about plans to reform the university’s admissions system, a lot of which involves curbing college autonomy.
Features: Having a ball
After a brace of ball-related balls-ups, Debbie Moss berates the cynicism about the tradition of the Oxford Ball
Features: HARD Pressed
That Kylie Minogue has so publicly revealed she has breast cancer will serve to renew debate about the extent of cancer-related illness. But society, and men in particular, should be less reserved when discussing such a significant threat to life. For years, the press and admirers alike have often talked about Kylie Minogue’s breasts.
Features: Frost
Tom Mountford quizzes David Frost on his interview technique, his days in satire, and those interviews with Richard Nixon
Features: The power of plants
You wander round seventeenth century fountains; water sparkles and tinkles all around. There are pleasant walks under shady trees, romantic carvings and sun-baked benches, fragrant borders and tropical flowers.
Features: Small treasures found in mint condition
The past comes to us in many forms - some obvious, some not so obvious. Sometimes it can be the little things, the seemingly insignificant objects, that illuminate the past with a light far stronger than their size would suggest. One such object is the so-called Domitianus Coin, part of the nowfamous hoard of Roman coins discovered in Oxfordshire in 2003.
