Early evening, and I’m sitting on a scuffed carpet in a college bedroom with plaid curtains, listening to a tinny speaker and drinking from a warm bottle of Tesco’s white wine. One friend sits doodling in the corner, another makes dhal in an air fryer. We might be able to see the tip of the Radcliffe Camera out of the window, arguably the locus of Oxford’s almost 27,000-strong student body. But here, inside Staircase 25, Bowra, in Wadham College, we could just as easily be a strange…
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