Columns
A crash course in British politics: An introduction (Week 0)
If you are reading this you most likely live in the United Kingdom. You might also, like me, be new here. As a first-year international student, I suddenly find...
Sound And Vision: Better Call Saul’s Perfect Montage
"The perfect song choice is instrumental in creating the perfect montage".
Work/Life Balance at Brookes
It is vital to recognise when to ask for help, and to know where to ask for it. Sharing a problem can often lighten the load of the problem. That’s part of the learning experience.
Striking the balance at university
"I wish I could be in two places at once, but as fun as this term has been, I am also aware that it has been packed that little bit too full."
Forget the Blues – It’s time for Oranges!
"I realised essays can be hard, but they can also be fun, and they can also be difficult, but then I can have a dance afterwards."
La Vie en Rose: New year, many me(s)
A couple days ago I went to see a Baudelaire exhibition, and as I meandered through colourful rooms full of poems about flowers and...
Douze Points: Defying the odds, Eurovision’s biggest disappointments
According to the famous ABBA song, the winner takes it all. Yet as the undoubtedly most famous act to have won Eurovision, it’s no...
Brain Freeze: The C word waltz
CW: Cancer, surgery.
So I’m talking to someone, right. Say I don’t really know them. Well maybe I do, a bit. A friend of a...
Arrogant, Offensive Truth Twisters: Don’t cry for me, Britannia
“Right guys, place your bets, how long do you think it’ll take Fiónn to become a Tory?”
It was a cold January morning in my...
Europe Underground: Questioning Otherness
"Migrants can be a source of renewal, a springboard for critical thinking...not least because they provide an opportunity to reassert an identity that goes beyond current political borders – a cosmopolitan Mediterranean identity."
Haute Kosher: To life, l’chaim
"We must not live in fear; we must live so vibrantly that if we are taken again, we will have left our mark, so that even after our death, we will live."
Behind the Screens: the thankless job of editing
CW: Mentions of suicide
In a previous Cherwell column, I wrote that cinematographers manipulate an audiences’ viewpoint. If that is the case, then editors are...
Will Neill’s Real Deal: The Decline and Fall of Boris Johnson
This has been a bizarre week for Boris Johnson. I appreciate that this is an evergreen statement, applicable to basically any week in the...
Code Name Mary: Jewish Heroes
It is rare to hear about a life as extraordinary as that of Muriel Gardiner. A student who left Oxford for an underground socialist...
Auntythetical: The pressure of the dreaming spires
Everything that I thought made me worthy of being here, that I fought to read and learn alongside my studies, feels insignificant
Auntythetical: Being stuck in the middle
The ostracism I felt had forced me to choose between my identity and the chance to have friends.
Pens, Paper, and Panic: On OCD and perfectionism at University
"This self-sabotage is something that’s really intensified, along with a lot of my other OCD symptoms, since coming to university. I could stare for hours at a blank screen out of pure worry that what I’m writing wouldn’t be a masterpiece. This is the point at which the compulsions kick in - tapping on my head five times for good luck is my most common one. Any mix-up in how I do it and I’ve got bad luck for the rest of the day."
Brain Freeze: Reflections on the Girl I see in the mirror
I look at the girl in the mirror and I wonder if she is me. It is hard to connect with my body now....
Behind the Screens: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly of Referencing in Film
Referencing in Hollywood is a bit like a currency at the moment; writers can buy some pre-existing emotional attachment, with very little effort on...
