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Writing the history of The Oxford Student
Your first long vac at Oxford is a very educational experience. It teaches you which of your friends can be bothered to reply to your messages when you’re not in physical proximity to each other; how...
View ArticleThe future of the Democratic Party according to Adam Smith
A month out from the head-turning results of the 2024 election, the two sides of the aisle could not be more disparate. While Republicans move full steam ahead to build the infrastructure of the Trump...
View ArticleThe roads of Oxford: red light rebels or infrastructural issues?
In 2021, a video of an Italian cyclist skipping a red light went viral. Thinking the road was clear, the cyclist jumped the red light, only to be abruptly cut-off by a car driven by I Carabinieri (the...
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100 years of OUCA
The Oxford University Conservative Association (OUCA) celebrated its centenary last year, and can reflect on decades of shaping British politics. When considered in a wider context, it has played a...
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The Rad Cam Period Problem
Many people in Oxford menstruate regularly, and yet, when walking around the city or entering its crowning jewel – the Radcliffe Camera – one struggles to find any trace of this extraordinarily common...
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LA fires set social media ablaze
Thousands of firefighters are still working to contain the fires that have spread across Los Angeles since the first blaze on 7 January. Nearly 200,000 people have been under evacuation orders as...
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What is it like living on a canal boat as an Oxford student?
If my younger self heard this question, I’m sure she would laugh at it so hard. At least before a night in early October. It was the night I celebrated my 23rd birthday with some of my friends at...
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Diving below the surface: Reflections on ten years as a synchronised swimmer
Synchronised swimming is a strange and often misunderstood sport. To the untrained eye, its feet sporadically bursting through the surface of the water, garish eye-make up and obscenely high-legged...
View ArticleLife as an international student: why I get jealous of children at the airports
I get jealous of children at the airports. Whenever I travel back to Poland, my country of birth, I look nostalgically at those carefree little humans; their time in the UK was just a vacation with a...
View ArticleOxford and the Holocaust: Memorial Day 2025
Monday 27th January marked 80 years since the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau, the largest Nazi concentration camp. I spoke to a representative from the Oxford Jewish Society to ask her thoughts on...
View ArticleA mixed experience: Being Indian and British
I’d like to make clear that I’ve never suffered prejudice because of being half-Indian and half-British. I’m the world’s stealthiest South-Asian (blame my British side), and as such can’t claim, as so...
View ArticleGalantines, Gossip, and Guardians
As Valentine’s Day threatens to rear its confetti-dazzled head once more, it’s easy to forget that romantic relationships are far from the be-all and end-all of young adult life. In a world that often...
View ArticleThe Higher Education Act: What is being said?
Universities are places for students to intellectually engage with academic material and sociopolitical topics alike. Oxford University believes that “free speech is the lifeblood of a university”...
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Dead Weight: Reading outside Oxford
Reading and research are central to being a student at Oxford, especially with the nearly unlimited access that comes with the Bodleian Libraries. The issue, then, is how to maintain that working...
View ArticleThe cost of power: an interpersonal perspective on Oxford Student Politics
*Please note that this article primarily reflects my experiences with the undergraduate student body; my interactions with post-graduates have been significantly different. Last Trinity, in the wake...
View ArticleFood, rituals, performances, and more: How Oxford celebrated 2025 Lunar New Year
Every year, when the first new moon in the lunar calendar rises, millions of families across East and Southeast Asia gather to make dumplings and watch the Spring Festival Gala on television next to a...
View ArticleThe nights of an Oxford Insomniac: Lonely Self Love
As the sun sets on Valentine’s Day we all move on to Valentine’s night. Oxford’s streets are filled with happy couples walking arm in arm, queueing outside restaurants, holding bouquets of roses,...
View Article“You can still eat some of it, right?”: Being an allergy ally in Oxford
Chloe is an Mst Linguistics, Philology and Phonetics student at Trinity college. Clubbing with EpiPens tucked into my heavier-than-ever handbag was totally not on the cards when I first applied for...
View ArticleFrazzled: How to handle chaotic political news cycles whilst being...
Recently, with the arrival of the second Trump administration in the US, the chaos in French and German politics, the new government in Syria, Britain’s domestic troubles and the rise of Reform, it’s...
View ArticleInto the deep-end: getting into sports at university
University is a time for new beginnings. In that vein, I decided that, as a chronically unfit person for whom exercise meant jogging and occasionally going to the gym, I’d try to pick up a sport. I’d...
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