PRESSURE POINT – Pop politics: who cares who they vote for?
With the US election drawing ever nearer, increasing attention is being focused on something that is seemingly becoming an integral part of elections: political endorsements by celebrities. Endorsements like these have been a feature of American elections for over a century—look no further
Trial on the Ayia Napa strip
‘Strippers?’ The sad voice of an older lady asks us, with the kind of exhausted politeness one might expect from one of those guys that catch you leaving a tube station, trying to ask for a donation for whatever noble cause, be it a knife crime prevention or cancer research
ARTIST SPOTLIGHT: Naomi Bull
‘I am a book of words and sentences and paragraphs that I list and recite with hate and dismay but others read with lighter looks all they see is my skin’ Video, projection and body scans This piece was made as a reflection of the artists self obsessed thoughts on their
Icon of the Week: Tudor Pret
The Oxonian’s life is a tumultuous one. It can be easy to feel overwhelmed by the constant onslaught of society meetings, sports, and social events that we all spend our days frittering to and from. If we’re lucky, we might manage to spend the occasional hour or two actually doing our degrees. I
Brewing communities: inside Oxford’s café culture
At Jericho Coffee Traders, postcards from customers cover the wall behind the cash, and graduates have their photos taken in front of the café. There’s even a regular who gets behind the counter and starts working when the line gets too long. At The Missing Bean, a professor gets a
“Never Go Back”: An Ode to Returning
Sat in my stuffy English classroom, with its chipped yellow wallpaper and alarmingly stained carpets, I read Carol Ann Duffy’s poem ‘Never Go Back’ for the first time. The name might ring a bell—most of us remember the onion metaphor, perhaps not so fondly, but there’s more to it than just
The kindness tax
A customer recently asked me why the pint I had served him cost 10 quid. He leaned over the counter where I studied the freshly poured drink (head overlarge, incriminating tracts of lager streaming down the sides). A fiver because it’s alcohol. Another two pounds because it’s a pub in the
ARTIST SPOTLIGHT: Siyun Sun
‘City of Angels’ Digital, 84.1×118.9 cm I always need to learn, produce, and do something more meaningful than everyday living. I desire the object petit a, the thing I will never reach but forever wander around it. This void I desperately want is only reflected in ordi
Firsts
The first draft is almost always completely scrapped, reworded, reworked, refined, crumpled, torn up, and tossed away. The first pancake never turns out quite right–– does the first child? Everyone remembers their firsts: first steps, first kiss, first love, the first man on the moon. N