The Comedy of Successes
I first encountered The Comedy of Errors on a Shakespeare reading list, the only play successfully crammed into the last week of my Hilary vacation. At the time, my only takeaway was the ability to claim having ‘made a start’ on my reading without brazenly lying to my tutor. Seeing it in
Icon of The Week: Will Shackleton
For the past week, every time I’ve mentioned that I’m writing my Icon of the Week about Will Shackleton, I’ve received one of two responses: “Oh, I love Will Shackleton!” or “Who is Will Shackleton?” With those mixed reactions in mind, I sat down with Will determined to answer t
PRESSURE POINT – JD Vance: America’s unlikely heartthrob?
Last week I came across a Substack article entitled “Women Across America Just fell in Love With JD Vance”. I’m relatively new to Substack (I know – late to the party!) and a pretty infrequent user, so don’t fall into the same algorithm-generated echo chamber that dominates all my o
Tracey Emin’s I followed you to the end at The White Cube Bermondsey
As I walk from London Bridge to The White Cube, the sun sets behind me. Streaks of peach-pink peak between the buildings of Bermondsey Street, filled with well-dressed people spilling onto the road and clutching bottles of Estrella. I reckon this is the beer being served at the opening of T
Icon of the Week: Footprint Tours
As all Christ Church students, or anyone who has braved Cornmarket street at lunchtime will tell you, Oxford is a veritable tourist haven. Benjamin Franklin made the claim that nothing was certain in life apart from death and taxes. He was wrong. Weekend college brunch, a disastrously alcohol
It’s the end of the world as we know it: the future of fashion week
Over droning which vibrates the entire strip of post-industrial wasteland where the show is taking place, a child with two prosthetic legs describes the end of the world. Models stumble out of a shipping container wearing gas masks, made up with bloody wounds and several days and nights’ wo
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
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