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Jonathan Bailey

‘We won’t win the war’

MI5 boss tells LMH students the Iraq-damaged ’War on Terror’ cannot be won The Director General of the Security Services (MI5) returned to her...

Illegal opportunities for student voters

Yesterday’s local and European elections were shrouded in controversy across the country as the postal vote system was lambasted from all sides and arrests...

Massacre at Barbecue

The quiet of the small South Oxfordshire village of Henley was ripped apart this week as a father started shooting members of his family...

University of Life

A new book claims that life expectancy is linked to education: the longer you spend learning, the longer life you will have. Sir...

Students are incompatible with OUSU

OUSU was in confusion this week as it attempted to implement the result of last term’s referendum on the future of higher education funding....

Cycle safety for Cowley Road

Mourning for the death of St Catherine’s student Emilie Harris continued this week as the Council approved a multi-million pound road safety project for...

Anger at ‘costly’ Oriel rejection

The decision by Oriel undergraduates to remain outside OUSU has been criticised by 23 JCR Presidents who feel that their members “subsidise” services which...

Black bike market at Union

Questions of dodgy dealing have arisen regarding the sale of bicycles at the Oxford Union this week, following a complaint from a student who...

OUSU gambles with new Entz venture

After a year in which OUSU made less than £5,000 from running Entz, the student union has decided to create a position with a...

Oriel flirts with OUSU’s pants

Oriel students went to the polls yesterday to decide whether or not to re-affiliate to OUSU after three years outside the student union. ...

Don’t mix your drinkers

Outraged Oriel students have rallied round their college staff in a confrontation over whether they should be allowed to drink at the college bar....

Election’s confusing pro-life choice

Yesterday’s OUSU VP Women byelection was mired in controversy as it emerged that one of the two candidates had not mentioned her anti-abortion links...

Cut rate OUSU entices St Cross

St Cross College’s Common Room Committee (CRC) has decided to affiliate to OUSU from Michaelmas Term 2004, after the student union offered them a...

OUSU may ignore vote

A motion has been tabled for today’s OUSU Council which would allow the student union to tacitly ignore the result of the recent higher...