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Oxford SU to hold referendum on NUS membership

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Val Michael - 5 days ago

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Formula One’s controversial 2026 regulations

Gabriella Bedford - 13th May 2026

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Meghan Campbell on women, poverty, and why international law still matters

Angelina Mirraslavska - 2 days ago

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Oxford study warns ‘friendly’ AI chatbots are more likely to mislead users

AI models trained to seem warm and empathetic make significantly more errors, and are far more likely to agree with users even when they're wrong, according to new research published in Nature by Oxford Internet Institute (OII) researchers Lujain Ibrahim and Luc Rocher.

Anisha Mohammed - 22nd May 2026

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24/7: College porters and the Oxford night shift

Jiayue Shi - 17th May 2026

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Almost 90% of Oxford bike thefts go unsolved

Stanley Arlidge - 22nd May 2026

Wadham second-year accommodation rent to rise by 10.63% to £9470

Beatrix Arnold - 22nd May 2026

Opinion

Oxford is not an aesthetic

Elizabeth Millett - 20th May 2026

My social media algorithm has successfully tracked my profile closely enough to have figured out where I study. To my regret. For every now...

Oxford’s Career Connect is failing northern students

The north-south divide is alive and well at Oxford’s railway station at the end of term. While students heading south crowd the opposite platform,...

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The Oxford Union has a far-right problem

The Oxford Union has regularly been the subject of public outrage. From the 1933 ‘King and Country’ debate, upon which the Union, now, regularly...

Arun Lewis -

Oxford needs a women’s college

Naturally, I loathe to say that Cambridge does anything better than Oxford, but I can’t deny that there is one thing I will always...

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What are children really learning from their screens?

Saba Ahmadzadeh Noughani - 16th May 2026

Today, when compared to my own childhood, screens dominate children's lives more than ever, and it seems to me that the screens they are...

The gap between funding and belonging at Oxford

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I became more at home when I left home

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Features

24/7: College porters and the Oxford night shift

Jiayue Shi -

For many, the night lodge exists as a background certainty, noticed chiefly in moments of crisis, vulnerability, or inconvenience.

Raising refugee rights: Oxford STAR and Campsfield House

Mary Huan -

“The Coalition and STAR are quite unique in the emphasis on trying to bridge the gap between students and the community”.

‘It happens here and it’s our responsibility to stop it’: Oxford’s anti-sexual violence campaign

Beatrix Arnold -

For the co-presidents of It Happens Here, Aparna and Maddie, literacy about consent and sexual violence is needed now more than ever.

A plate for everyone: Food restrictions at formals

Sophia Yvonne Hall - 20th May 2026

Recently, I found myself curious about the behind-the-scenes process: how colleges receive dietary information, where and how it travels, and what care is taken to ensure that, by the time a plate lands in front of you, it is the right one.