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Image description: The text “Dates of our lives” on a pink and purple background I’m sorry. This is embarrassing, even for me. I don’t want to have to admit this to you all but truth will out and so forth. It’s my duty, this is what you signed up for. And who am I to […]
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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: White character holding up a sign that says ‘Agony Aunt’ on a background of grass and flowers Hello my beautiful nieces, nephews and niephlings (I do my research). 5th week is here, and here at the OxStu we wanted to make it a celebration! Of sorts. No cake, but I’ll give you a […]
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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: A cartoon figure holding a sign saying ‘Agony Aunt’ stood in a green field with a pink flower. Welcome, welcome one and all to this week’s agony aunt session with yours truly, Bronwyn. I’m writing this while “tired in upper old bod,” as I texted my sister, which she thought was a way […]
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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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Image Description: Social Media logos on a purple and blue background. This week our columnists discuss the pitfalls and triumphs of social media, and whether it should be more strongly regulated… Clara Morrissey is a second year Theology student at Keble, and our On the Right columnist. A dialogue taken from George Orwell’s 1984 between […]
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Image description: an eye with a rainbow seen reflected in it I don’t like Lincolnshire. That’s my home, unfortunately. It’s a rural, heavily conservative, bigoted place. To give you an idea: my constituency has always voted Tory by a large margin for almost a hundred years. The last non-Tory MP was a Liberal in 1923 […]
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So the evenings are getting darker, the opening nights are getting closer, and my room currently resembles such a pigsty it’s led a few people to remark I might be getting a little too into Halloween. Still, this is Oxford student theatre, not the Barbican, and while the facilities are great, I’m pretty sure my […]
Continue ReadingWill Upton discusses the art of writing about music. When I came to Oxford I knew I’d soon be sweating over essay deadlines and presentations. I probably thought a weekly column would be some light relief. I have an admission to make: writing about music is really hard to do. Writing about music for a […]
Continue ReadingAndrew Lewis pithily tells us in a 2010 Metafilter discussion that ‘If you’re not paying for something, you’re not the customer; you’re the product being sold’. Besides being a fantastic line to trot out on any occasion where someone bitches about Facebook, it was oddly prescient of the last two years’ rise of free-to-play (f2p […]
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