Ice Cream and Communism: The Sweet Side Effects of the Cuban Revolution
An immense ice-cream parlour stands on a leafy street in Havana, Cuba, like a towering UFO. Reputedly over 30,000 customers visit every day to devour scoops of Coppelia ice cream, Cuba’s government-subsidised snack of choice. The Havana branch of Coppelia lies in the art deco time warp of Vedado,
A Leap of Faith: Don Justo’s Self-Made Cathedral
Gusto Gallego Martínez rarely sits. A former monk at Trappist order Santa María de Huerta, the eighty-six year old Don Justo, as he is known, has spent his life building, virtually unaided, the unfinished Catedral de la Fe – the Cathedral of faith – which looms brilliantly and bizarrely over t
Statements following Oswald Mosley’s meeting in Oxford (May 27, 1936)
It is very difficult for the outsider who has not been to a Mosley meeting to realise the menace to democracy and free speech represented by his movement. It is not that the Fascists themselves go about directly causing violence and breaking up meetings: their technique is much more subtle and dange
Christmas shopping for one’s Oxford lover
Their first suggestion was innocent enough: a brightly patterned waist apron. Our investigator thought that a little too domestic, and asked for something more personal.
Camilla Long survives Christmas
Originally published Michaelmas term 1998 Aaaaaaah! The Christmas of our youth! Button noses, snowflakes, small wrapped gifts and Cherryade! Tossing and turning with excitement, waiting for a big red man to thrust his hands into our stockings… and still only 12! Tra-la! And now? No stockings, b
Dreamspace: The Art of Lucid Sleep
ISIS from the 90's teaches us how to lucid dream
Nirvana ‘Nevermind’ Review, 1991
A dig through the ISIS archives revealed this review of Nirvana's seminal 90s album Nevermind
Mental Health – a view from 1982
From the ISIS archive.