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Larry Ellison scales back £10 billion Oxford science initiative

Oracle co-founder and tech billionaire Larry Ellison is scaling back plans for the Ellison Institute of Technology (EIT), Oxford research institute, following a significant restructuring. This comes after the departure of Sir John Bell from EIT; Bell left his role...
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We must separate Church and University

Lilly Law -
Financially, culturally, and quasi-judicially, the Church of England remains part of the furniture in both the city and the University.

Oriel’s Rhodes exhibition is not enough

The exhibition's portrayal of Rhodes’ actions and the Rhodes Must Fall movement are trivialising and disrespectful.
Ti-Jean Martin -

This is Oxford’s real free speech problem

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

The Vice-Chancellor’s oration lacks a story

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

It’s time we woke up to the failures of the NUS

Archie Johnston -
The Cambridge SU's disaffiliation is a reminder that the National Union of Students is not fit for purpose

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Intoxtigation 2025: The good, the bad, and the Balliol bar  

Cherwell Features Section Editors -
Pour out a glass for the second annual Intoxtigation. 562 respondents told Cherwell all...

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Buckley: The Life and the Revolution That Changed America

Gavriella Epstein-Lightman -
The ornate, Latinate vocabulary. The...
Culture

‘Everything is constantly emotion’: An interview with the cast and crew of ‘Doctor Faustus’ 

Seabass Theatre has carved out a niche for itself producing original takes on canonical texts, most memorably last year’s plant-inspired Hamlet staged at the former Music Faculty. When discussing...
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Culture

Between performance and reality: ‘To What End?’ reviewed

To What End is a new meta-theatrical, absurdist play written by Billy Skiggs and Billy Hearld. It begins in what seems to be simplicity: a wartime song hums through...
Beth Riding -
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The day she died

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Lifestyle

It’s beginning to look a lot like Oxmas

Elizabeth Bourn -
I begin listening to Christmas soundtracks in September. I theorise decorations in October and,...

Sport

Inside the little-known world of Oxford’s real tennis club

Natalie Tan -
Real tennis? What, as opposed...

Ethics versus economics: The WTA Finals in Riyadh

Gavriella Epstein-Lightman -
I am a tennis aficionado....

The BBC’s dying sports coverage is hurting Britain

Charlie Towle -
The President’s Challenge – the...

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

Natalie Tan -
In March I twice came...

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