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Anti-hunting group protests against alleged illegal hunt on St John’s College land

Anti-hunting protesters gathered outside the Sheldonian Theatre during matriculation on Saturday to protest against alleged illegal hunting activities on land owned by St John’s College.
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Politics must not serve as a barrier to education

Ti-Jean Martin -
As this article goes to print, Oxford University is missing two of its offer-holders. In a haunting echo of the trials faced by approximately 78 Palestinian students last academic year, several of whom held places at Oxford, two Sudanese doctors are unable to begin master’s courses at the University this October. This comes after the High Court dismissed their legal challenge to Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood’s ‘emergency brake’ visa policy, which also affects applicants from Afghanistan, Cameroon, and Myanmar.

Unsilenced: I reported Damian Howard, too

When looking back on abuse cases that have plagued the church, some of the most common questions centre around whether there were early warning...
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We should hate more

Oxford students hate C*mbridge. Or at least, we’re supposed to. We call them Tabs, occasionally ‘shoe’ them, and inherit a rivalry as soon as we matriculate. There’s only one problem: most of the time, nobody seems particularly bothered.
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If Westminster won’t offer reparations, Oxford should

A diasporic fight that surged with UN-approved ambitions saw optimism dwindle early this month. Jamaican government officials have elevated their call for reparations with...
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University rankings can be misleading

Saba Ahmadzadeh Noughani -
As someone who also initially applied to St Andrews before withdrawing, and later accepted an offer from Oxford, St Andrews now being ranked first in the UK by The Sunday Times does not make me regret my choice because I understand what that ranking was primarily measuring. It does not focus on global academic reputation, research influence, international standing, or fully capture the breadth and scale of research.

Features

Feeling fresher: How to be casually healthy whilst going out in Oxford

Barbara Kempny -
Freshers’ Week is drawing...

After the glut: A renaissance for the AI age?

Agatha Crowther -
Erasmus had a content...

From Oxbridge to Silicon Valley: The rise of student entrepreneurship

Emma Heagney -
Does a university education remain valuable for these young entrepreneurs, or can entrepreneurship serve as an increasingly popular alternative to traditional routes to success?

All work and no pay: Why Oxford students aren’t allowed to have jobs

Emma Heagney -
Strangely enough, however, the ‘vac’ is also the only opportunity for an Oxford student to work, not through problem sheets and essays, but in the most fundamental sense of the word.

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Culture

A jarring Mann: ‘Fatherland’ (2026) in review

Freddie Lewis-Hedley -
'Fatherland', which recounts celebrated Modernist author Thomas Mann’s return to a Germany in wreck and rubble, deals with great personal malaise against a backdrop of great political unease.
Books

Why does everyone like East of Eden so much?

A beautiful book, written in a determinedly readable style, is bound to become popular, not to mention the endless power of nostalgia.
Abigail Riley -
Art

The return of the surreal 

Mythical, dreamlike, phantasmagorical, and absurd: Surrealism, which took the art world by storm in the early 20th century, has enjoyed a huge resurgence in the past decade.  The original pioneers...
Sylvie Quick -
Culture

Must theatre be so dire? Thoughts on the “unworthy scaffold”

If 'art est celare artem' (true art is to conceal art), then theatre is pretty poor art. You ain't fooling me into thinking that's a storm.
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Lifestyle

The art of reaching out to old friends

Ilya Rosenbaum -
Coming to university, I realised that the stable, effortless reliability of my friends from home was, all of a sudden, precarious and difficult to maintain.

Sport

Record 15,000 runners participate in Oxford Half Marathon

Gavriella Epstein-Lightman -
A record 15,000 runners took to the streets of Oxford to complete the annual half marathon on Sunday 11th October. Thousands of supporters lined the course to cheer the runners.

Sport Spotlight: Charlotte Maple

Gavriella Epstein-Lightman -
Sport has been a constant feature of incoming Oxford University Cricket Club (OUCC) women’s Blues captain Charlotte Maple’s time at Oxford.

From Oxford to Cambridge: The 204-mile punt for Alzheimer’s 

Gavriella Epstein-Lightman -
Four students from St John’s College, Cambridge, have undertaken an extraordinary fundraising challenge, punting over 200 miles to raise money for the Alzheimer’s Society.

Oxford student and family run record-breaking half marathon in memory of father 

Gavriella Epstein-Lightman -
Oxford graduate Archie Johnston and his family have attempted to break the Guinness World Record for “fastest half marathon by a mother and three children” at the Worcester Half Marathon.