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Author: Rheanna-Marie Hall

More than just midges and moors: Scotland’s creative side

7th December 201415th November 2020Rheanna-Marie Hall

Nestled in the countryside of Southwest Scotland, there is a small place marked on the map as Wigtown. It has a town hall, many cafés, a good pub (or two), and a co-op for all your basic needs. It’s essentially another quiet rural retreat in Scotland, with enough to live on and some interesting history […]

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Rising to the challenge with baking royalty Martha Collison

22nd November 201415th November 2020Kirsty McLeod

Excited murmurs fill the Worcester JCR. It’s charity bake sale, but people aren’t really here for the cake. Well, maybe they are, but many are also anticipating the arrival of Martha Collison, the 18-year-old who recently became the youngest ever contestant on the Great British Bake Off. Love it or hate it, it’s a show […]

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Behind the glitz and glamour: the reality of staging a ball

22nd November 201415th November 2020Georgia Evans

Famed for their extravagance, overflowing with drink, and remembered for years: it could only be an Oxford ball. Every year thousands of students flock to various colleges for a night of debauched entertainment and riotous fun in what is one of Oxford’s most famous traditions. As someone enjoying the ball, it can, however, be easy […]

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Of food and philosophy: meeting Julian Baggini

22nd November 201422nd November 2014Elizabeth Freeman

“You should never call yourself a philosopher.” Coming from the co-founder of The Philosopher’s Magazine, such an opening is surprising, to say the least. Instead, Julian Baggini, who has gone on to author numerous books aimed at a wide audience on topics as varied as personal-identity, ethics, and atheism, prefers to describe himself as simply […]

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Geir Lippestad: Defending the man behind the massacre

20th November 201415th November 2020James Waddell

It seems like an ethical thought experiment, an exercise for a philosophy class – someone who has committed an atrocity of unimaginable cruelty, a despicable murderer, stands in the dock, and has requested you to defend him in court. But, in the early hours of the morning, a matter of hours after Anders Breivik had […]

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5th Week escapism: Indulging in Japan’s forgotten season

20th November 201415th November 2020Yuki Numata

If you’ve ever been to Japan, you might have noticed that the country places a strong emphasis on its four seasons, and with good reason: each one has distinct characteristics that set it apart from others. This means people wanting to visit will inevitably face the question of when is the best time to go.  […]

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5th Week escapism: Snowballing out of control in the Alps

20th November 201415th November 2020Helen Record

For those who have never been exposed to winter sports, I expect it is sometimes difficult to see the appeal. Why, I hear the mountain-virgins cry, would anyone voluntarily wake up before 9am on holiday just so they can subject themselves to sub-zero temperatures and precipitation of every variety (how can it rain when it […]

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5th Week escapism: South Korean street food and snow

20th November 201415th November 2020Christopher Fountain

The 2018 Winter Olympics will be held in South Korea but you should head 10,000km to the Asian economic powerhouse for more than just the winter sports. You can find deeper snow in France, better facilities in Switzerland, and more fun in Italy, but South Korea has something different to offer: food, weather, and festive […]

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Nostalgia for Florentine festivities

20th November 201415th November 2020Marcus Li

As I sip away at my morning Brazilian brew, contemplating on the various deadlines I have this coming week, suddenly the delicate scent of coffee hits my palate. The sensation is overwhelming, and I can no longer see the piles of essays and reading lists on my desk. The Oxonian reality fades away and my […]

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Meeting General Sir Graeme Lamb

11th November 201415th November 2020Hugh McHale-Maughan

I have to admit a little apprehension coming into this interview. Coming from a military family, I was well aware of General Lamb’s reputation for brusqueness, straight talking, and his intense dislike of the media. My trepidation was not quelled by a quite literally bone crunching handshake (I spent the first five minutes of our […]

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The new model: introducing social entrepreneurship

11th November 201415th November 2020Phillip Babcock

Can successful businesses be profitable while simultaneously making the world a better place? Just what responsibilities do corporations have towards society as a whole and how can they best impact and transform communities and nations? These are some of the many pressing questions that business schools, startups, investors, and concerned citizens are grappling with as […]

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The Oxford pub crawl, week 4: The Rose and Crown

11th November 201415th November 2020Jack Lale & Hugh McHale-Maughan

Oxford has some of the best and most interesting pubs in the country. This is what one must always remind oneself when in the city centre, surrounded by former independent pubs that have had to join a bigger family to survive or to diversify away from their humble origins. The overbearing prevalence of Greene King, […]

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Challenging the system from within at the Emerge Conference 2014

11th November 201415th November 2020Ronja Lutz

Hanli Prinsloo is standing on stage talking about her passion for water. And the funny thing is, I am feel touched. That I would never have thought about setting up an NGO to promote ocean-awareness doesn’t matter. This isn’t my project but it truly is hers. Hanli has found her dream and is trying to […]

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Europe and the English language

11th November 201415th November 2020Lidia Fanzo

“Is there anyone from Germany in the audience?” Comedian Henning Wehn asked as he opened his set. After several minutes of incomprehensible German conversation whilst the rest of us sat dumbfounded and confused he abruptly stopped. “Oh, sorry, I’m just doing what you Brits do on holiday.” The theatre was filled with awkward laughter as […]

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An evening of wine and good company

5th November 201415th November 2020Marcus Li

This week saw the inaugural session of the wine tasting introductory course hosted by The Oxford Chelt Wine School at St Peter’s College. Voted as the UK’s Top 3 companies for wine education by Harpers Wine & Spirit Magazine, this independent company hosts wine and cheese evenings as well as blind-tasting classes and seasonal events, […]

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“It’s still Oxford’s jewel in the crown”

5th November 201415th November 2020Christopher Fountain

John is having a bad day. Inside the Covered Market not much is happening. A few tourists reluctantly follow a laborious guided tour. Workers rush through with coffee cups and rucksacks. Students are slumped in cafes tapping out last minute essays. John fruitlessly attempts to interest them in RSPB. Most of them breeze by. “It’s […]

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Dining in, the Covered Market way

5th November 201415th November 2020Joshua Meikle

I am not a man of extravagant tastes. I like my Hassan’s with ketchup and my wine with a screw-top lid. However, every now and then it’s nice to put a little extra effort into your cooking, and sometimes that consists of more than putting butter on your toast before you pour the beans on. […]

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Falling in love with lunch at Alpha Bar

5th November 201415th November 2020Misha Gabe-Wilkinson

I discovered Alpha Bar in Trinity term of my first year, and quickly became addicted, eating there at least once a week, and dragging friend after friend to my new favourite place.  The bar serves both hot and cold foods, although the majority of people in seemingly endless line are standing patiently for their famous […]

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Tales from Plettenberg’s lost school

1st November 201415th November 2020Xavier Greenwood

Stepping off the plane at Johannesburg Airport following an eleven hour overnight flight, I was exhausted and clinging onto the last vestiges of sanity. And so, after well over twenty four hours of travel, the last thing I wanted was to be tested for Ebola; unfortunately, a malfunctioning facial scanner thought otherwise, and I found […]

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