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Royal Mail consults Oxford professor on Christmas stamps

Professor Andrew Davison, Regius Professor of Divinity at the University of Oxford, advised Royal Mail on the theological and artistic interpretation of its 2025 Christmas stamps, which feature scenes of the Nativity. Professor Ben Quash, Professor of Christianity and...
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This is Oxford’s real free speech problem

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The Vice-Chancellor's Sheldonian Series reveals a university that does not want to listen to what its students have to say.

We must fight the Right’s narrative about Oxford

Media frenzies targeting our University and its students distract from the real issues facing higher education.
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Student voices must be heard

Today’s youth are tomorrow’s future. It’s about time we were treated as such.
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It’s time we stopped fussing over university rankings

To combine all the factors that might influence someone’s decision-making into an aggregate score obscures as much as it illuminates.  
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The Vice-Chancellor’s oration lacks a story

Finlo Cowley -
Professor Tracey's attempt to not ruffle any feathers produced a speech full of contradictions.

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What’s in a name? The donors written on Oxford’s streets

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Across the Atlantic: American academics are finding a new home at Oxford

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As political and financial pressures mount across American higher education , a quiet migration...

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Culture

The power of the playlist

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"These ten precious songs ... will become a time capsule"
Art

Ceilings, wives, and love letters to the city: The Pre Raphaelites in Oxford

It was in 1857, not long after the construction of the Oxford Union, that its architect, Benjamin Woodward, was visited by his close friend Dante Gabriel Rossetti. It was...
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Books

The lying life of authors: John le Carré and authorial double-lives

“I’m not a spy who writes novels, I am a writer who briefly worked in the secret world.” This was said by the famous author John le Carré, who...
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Culture

‘Undeniably and uniformly exceptional’: Uncle Vanya Reviewed

It is a privilege to attend the most anticipated production of the term, and even more so when that it is a triumph. As a piece of student theatre...
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Lifestyle

Girlhood will not save you

Lilly Law -
I spent a good deal of time last summer trying to work out why...

Sport

Ethics versus economics: The WTA Finals in Riyadh

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I am a tennis aficionado....

The BBC’s dying sports coverage is hurting Britain

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The President’s Challenge – the...

Austria, the Allianz, and applause: How we make spaces divine

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In March I twice came...

Oxford Sailors take on the Celtic Sea

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Many people would consider offshore...

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