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Image description: A river surrounded by fields and trees. I woke up as I would’ve normally, spooning myself a bowl of yogurt and granola as I clicked open my laptop to an infinitely black screen. This morning, the screen remained unchanged for far too long. My granola grew soggy as I clicked and held buttons […]
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Image description: A plate with potatoes, green vegetables and diced ox tongue. Now, I know what you’re thinking. Ox tongue – what student would want to pick up a 1.5kg slab of meat from the butchers that they barely have the resources to handle? And I would argue that ox tongue is one of those […]
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Image description: Small white bowls full of colourful Sri Lankan food on a table. Meg Hopkins picks her top 10 favourite vegan restaurants in Oxford. The Coconut Tree – Food: Sri Lankan street food tapas style. It is a little pricey (although they’re doing Eat Out To Help Out on collections until June) but my […]
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Image description: A boy with his hand on his head looking at his laptop. “Fifth week blues” as a concept and as an experience is as predictable and as stress-inducing as the inevitable student journalism about the topic every term. The idea that the Oxford experience is so corrosive to your mental health that the […]
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Image description: A phone with the Instagram app open being held. From dissecting political issues into more manageable chunks, to raising awareness about injustice, the positive potential of the Instagram infographic is impressive. Yet it seems that what began as a well-intentioned means of education and clarification has slowly devolved into performative and empty online […]
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Image description: The autism spectrum infinity awareness symbol, which is multicoloured. I haven’t written this quite a few times. Over time, I’ve found any excuse not to do it. At one time, it was: my partner doesn’t know this about me – they deserve to be told first; then, it’s not worth the effort; no […]
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Image description: Rows of colourful bars of chocolate next to a sign saying ‘Welcome to Montezuma’s Oxford, Extraordinary Chocolate.’ Oxford’s newest chocolate shop, Montezuma’s, has at last opened its vibrant doors on historic Queen street. Owners Helen and Simon Pattinson were kind enough to speak to Sophie and me about the opening of their seventh […]
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Image description: A dog surrounded by trees in a wood. CW: Suicidal thoughts, anxiety, depression, ADHD. Before deciding to suspend, you could say I had a Teflon life: nothing would stick. The only consistency I had was the deep-set feeling of gloom within my chest. Two big solutions loomed over my head: end my own […]
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Image description: A hand holding a phone takes a picture of a dish. With the growth of YouTube, TikTok, and Instagram, a whole new form of food writing has emerged: that of the food influencer. From zero-waste soups, to sumptuous sweet treats, here are the Food and Drink editors’ top picks for food accounts to […]
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Image description: A lady in an ‘Oxford Eats’ branded T-shirt holds up her phone, showing the ‘Oxford Eats’ logo. Emily Beauchamp is launching a new food delivery app called Oxford Eats, which will provide a cheaper and fairer platform for Oxford’s independent food businesses to manage their orders with. I spoke to Emily about what […]
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Image description: A bottle of white wine called ‘Essence: Riesling Raimund Prüm’ on a table with a yellow mug. For March’s review, The Oxford Wine Company were kind enough to provide me with a lovely screw top bottle to save my house from another embarrassing episode with a corkscrew. I am admittedly not someone who […]
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