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Sarah Kent

President Kufour

By Sarah KentJohn Kofi Agyekun Kufuor, President of Ghana, arrived at the Union with fully twenty dignitaries and journalists in tow. It was an...

John Simpson

Everything’s going to be alright. Sort of. This is the message of John Simpson’s new book, Not Quite World’s End. Bombs may be falling,...

Oxford Reaction

Sarah Kent examines the biases and stereotypes facing Oxford students. University is a liberating place: suddenly the overbearing parents are gone, the controlling girlfriend is...

Where did it all go wrong for… Oxford’s toilets?

In 1379 New College built a cesspit of such epic proportions that it took 300 years worth of students’ waste to fill it. Yet...