Bad audiences: an Imp-ossible task?
If you don’t have the cojones to get up on a stage and be paid to make an audience laugh, don’t knock them. With this principle in mind, sat at the very back of the Wheatsheaf, pint and £3.50 ticket...
View ArticleThe Charms and Vino da Gino’s
Modernisation seems to be an unrelenting force in the businesses of today, with each restaurant and café rolling out the brushed steel and edgy, experimental ingredients in the hope of captivating an...
View ArticleFunctioning Alcoholic
Trinity term has thus far been almost pathetically beautiful. Near-unbroken sunshine has seen Primark raided of its entire stock of knock-off RayBans, £1 sunglasses enough to make people put such...
View ArticleTwo Worlds Unite: Oxsteddfod
Ancient traditions are a part of everyday life at Oxford. We avoid the grass, strutting in our subfusc while painfully aware that we look as ridiculous as we do dashing. Traditions make us stand out,...
View ArticleModern Metamophoses on Oxide Radio
I feel like I’ve answered a Starter for 10 wrong on University Challenge, but instead of a Jeremy Paxman boring a look of disdain into my skull, instead I’m thrown an expression of pity. Emma...
View Article“Get that woman out of my chamber”: the importance of the Oxford Union’s...
My involvement in competitive debating began in my third year at school, to jibes about being a “mass debater”, which simply never got old (or funny). Moving onto the university circuit, things were...
View ArticleOxMuff: The girls looked at johnnies
Encased from the age of eight in a girls’ school, my formative years of sexual education were somewhat warped. Quite apart from lunchtime debates on whether it was technically possible to get pregnant...
View ArticleHow much do you spend on food?
Having a celebratory jägerbomb or two on May Day, fuelling an essay crisis with Hassan’s and Red Bull, indulging in some roast duckling for dinner at my college –these are all things that I had to go...
View ArticleOne Thousand and One Arabian Bites
Little Clarendon Street is perhaps the perfect location for a restaurant; not too far from the centre, just on the verge of Jericho, and equidistant from basically every college. However, what this...
View ArticleRemoulded: From Marriott to Molehill
To adapt the lament of Withnail and I’s Uncle Monty: “It is the most shattering experience of a young man’s life when one morning he awakes and quite reasonably says to himself ‘I will never play the...
View ArticleThe Shaolin Warriors FTW
The swords gleam in the bright lights, lined up, blades pointing upwards. I can tell their edges are sharp, glittering crisply in the hard yellow light. The man who stands in front of the blades is...
View ArticleGeorge Street brasserie is côte-à-côte with Oxford’s finest
French food in Oxford is, whilst perhaps not the most prolific cuisine around (as that somewhat dubious honour goes to Italian), still common enough to require evaluation on a sliding scale. Towards...
View ArticleThe Oxford Student at the RAG Burrito Eating Competition ’13
Following Kebab Van Dialogues, OxStu’s Abbas Kazmi looks at another fast food favourite, the burrito. We’re at the RAG Mission Burrito Competition 2013 at Oriel College where it gets pretty messy…
View ArticleThe Functioning Alcoholic
This week, I present you with a cautionary tale. They often say don’t meet your heroes, for they will only disappoint. They should also say don’t meet people you already carry a burning dislike for,...
View ArticleTree days of simple pleasures at Wood
Last weekend saw two fugitives make a daring escape from our dear old university to try and get in touch with nature. Wood Festival, set in (occasionally) sunny Braziers Park and an offshoot of the...
View ArticleNew kids on the block fit the Bill perfectly
Exactly what sort of restaurant is Bill’s? It’s a question I asked myself as we stepped through the door, and even now I can’t quite pin it down. The décor is an odd mixture: warehouse chic, rustic...
View ArticleOxMuff: More to see than ‘p in the v’
When you write a column about sex, it’s sometimes too easy to get caught up in your own assumptions about sex. I’m female and cisgender (meaning my traditional gender identity matches my biological...
View ArticleDisney will help you to Go The Distance
Seven-year-old me wanted to be a Disney princess more than anything. I’d watched the classics on my trusty VHS player until all the best bits had gone fuzzy from being rewound too many times. I once...
View ArticleHistory: more than just a pastime
For one of Oxford’s largest societies, the History Society sometimes seems surprisingly overlooked. A fact that is especially surprising given that one our primary objectives is the liberal...
View ArticleOxford Library Crawl: where would you choose to work?
Pub crawls are as nauseatingly laddish as they are prohibitively pricy and staggeringly dull. The only institutions in this fine city worth traversing are its libraries. Here are my finest bookworm...
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