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Image Description: the words “Apply now to join our Senior Editorial and Creative Team! Apply through the online form. Open until 5th December at 11:59 pm” against a background image of the Radcliffe Camera. Applications to join the Senior Editorial team and Creative team of the Oxford Student are now open! If you would like […]
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Image description: The text ‘Hell’s Kitchen’ on a red background with illustrations of kitchen utensils When I was young my parents used to talk about the Clintons. Grandparents would laude the Kennedys. At 7 I stayed up and ate hotdogs with them watching the first black president get elected. A ‘successful’ democratic administration can be […]
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Image description: The text “Dates of Our Lives” on a pink and purple background Many moons ago, I had matched with dear Billy but we didn’t meet up because he was off to work on a vineyard over summer. Rah! He asked to meet up when he returned and I agreed before promptly forgetting all […]
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Image description: the text Dates of Our Lives on a pink and purple background It was almost 5th week and in an attempt to get ahead of the potential 5th Week Blues, I headed home. Home to sweet sweet Cardiff. The train journey was long. And for all of you who live in the sprawling […]
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Image description: Hello my wonderful little rats. I’m back, and since Guy Fawkes Night and 5th week blues are long gone, I officially declare it Oxmas. Wahoo!! Onto the qualms of the week: Hi, Agony aunt. Where are the best libraries? My college library is dank and not in the good way? Hi […]
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Image description: Text ‘Hell’s Kitchen’ on a red background with illustrations of kitchen utensils This breaded snack is a culinary joy that many crave but few can have. A successful football team with its sugary flavour of conquering the rest, soft crumb of overcoming past adversity and its moist texture of bragging rights is an […]
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Image description: The text “dates of our lives” on a pink and purple background There I was, dear readers. On, yes, another date. And before you start to psychoanalyse me and probe to find out who hurt me and why I’m like this let me stop you there. Why do I date so much that […]
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Image description: text ‘Hell’s Kitchen’ against a red background with sketches of cooking utensils This dessert is a true British classic dating back to the early 20th century. Versions of the dish exist outside Britain, such as the Social Democratic Party of Germany, the Democratic Labour party of Spain or the Parti Socialiste in France. […]
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It started as all great love stories do. We matched on Tinder, his account was permanently blocked, he tracked me down on Instagram, we finally met in person and then I realised he wasn’t the one for me. The characters in this tragic love story are myself, naturally as a deeply narcissistic individual, and a […]
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Image description: Hi everyone, and a belated welcome to Oxford to anyone who is attending their first term here! I’m really glad to be back, and among seeing very few familiar faces (*pretentious voice* ‘Oh, didn’t you know I suspended and worked from home, daahling?’) I have made some wonderful new friends, including a few […]
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Image description: Measuring spoons filled with different spices, surrounded by coriander leaves and chillies Over the coming weeks I hope to provide my readers with various recipes with which they can achieve various political circumstances. A simple recipe for a broken democracy is a timeless classic one should always have in their repertoire, whether you’re […]
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Image description: A pile of heart shaped sweets in different colours After our fifth date, the American teacher physically recoiled from my tentative lean-in on the tube platform. I didn’t hear from him the next day, nor the next. It wasn’t a textbook ghosting, but his WhatsApp message two weeks later did little to restore […]
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