Wednesday 29th October 2025

Lifestyle

TLDR: Literacy in the digital age

No one reads these days. If it’s longer than an Instagram caption, it’s not worth my time. I doubt most people will even make it to the end of...

The erotic life of the mind

At Oxford, desire often wears a gown. It speaks in footnotes, engages in debates...

Oxford, gone decaf

When I was having lunch with a friend, I ordered my usual, a double...

How to survive Oxford

Welcome to Oxford, the place where ambition goes to drink, cry, and write 3,000 words on “liminality” at 3 a.m.

Hollie McNish interview

Amelia Anderson talks to performance poet Hollie McNish about the politics of poetry

Freddy the Fresher 2014: Part 4

Freddy recalls an amorous encounter in typically theatrical fashion

Creaming Spires – 3rd week Hilary

Guest columnist Hugh Japenis reflects on a lad's holiday of sun, sex and busty Bavarian

Freddy the Fresher 2014: Part 1-3

Freddy's adventures in Oxford continue in this uncut collection of the first three entires of Hilary

Review: Yeti

Alex gives Nepalese cuisine a go

In Defence of Horseradish

Tom Wood makes a case for this British classic

Creaming Spires: 2nd Week Hilary

Ava has an international sexperience

An Ode to Procrastination

Chloe Ingersent celebrates the ultimate library companion...a good dose of procrastination

Interview: Kris Hallenga

Erin Goldfinch talks to CoppaFeel! founder Kris Hallenga about cancer detection

Creaming Spires: 1st Week Hilary

Ava finds a new way to save the pennies...

Review: The Fishes

Alex Bleasdale heads out of town for some New Year gluttony

Free booze (almost)

Andy Hamilton helps ease your overdraft

Review: Thirsty Meeples Board Game Café

Meeple: A character or object representing the player in a board game

Review: Red Star

Alex Bleasdale espouses the virtues of a firm Cowley favourite.

Review: Pierre Victoire

Good company, better wine and great food, says Alex Bleasdale

Creaming Spires: 0th Week Hilary

Oxford's most sex-perienced student brings us news of her latest sex-capade

Interview: Justine Roberts

India Miller talks to Justine Roberts about social media and its impact on politics

A resolution on resolutions

Amelia Anderson commiserates on resolutions we've probably already broken.

Letter from… Les Banlieues

Roseanne Chantiluke gets to grips with schoolkids in the Parisian estates

"Disproportionate coverage"?

How does the press treat drinking societies? C+ investigates

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