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Oxford and UNESCO launch a free global course on AI and Rule of Law

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Victoria Corfield - 11th May 2026

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Formula One’s controversial 2026 regulations

Gabriella Bedford - 7 days ago

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

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Christ Church proposes 2,500 home development in West Oxfordshire

Proposals for a 2,500-home development in West Oxfordshire have been submitted by Christ Church College, in collaboration with UK construction company Bloor Homes.

Angelina Wu - 17th May 2026

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£26 million in visiting student tuition fees: Inside the finances of Oxford’s visiting student programme

Cherwell Investigations - 17th May 2026

Tommy Robinson Union invite sparks controversy across University

Beatrix Arnold and Ned Remington - 17th May 2026

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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...

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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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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

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

The Oxford donors in the Epstein files

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The appearance in the 'Epstein files' of the names of a number of Oxford University's most prominent donors raises questions about the University's sources of funding.

24/7: College porters and the Oxford night shift

Jiayue Shi - 17th May 2026

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

‘The only woman in Hall’: Gender and college governance

The independent cinema battling Oriel College to stay open

War within earshot: A year abroad in Jordan

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

Angelina Mirraslavska - 17th May 2026

‘This isn’t a culture war. It’s a war on culture with a very long history’: Dan Hicks on Rhodes, racism, and the Pitt Rivers

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‘What we need is action’: Dr Lakasing on maternity care, misinformation, and the NHS crisis

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Inarticulacy in part and in whole: ‘Father Mother Sister Brother’ in review

Freddie Lewis-Hedley - 17th May 2026

When I heard that Jim Jarmusch had released a new anthology film, I fondly remembered watching Night on Earth (1991) some years ago.

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On Geese and the Cult of the Fake Fan

Great statistics could be drawn up about how often men in Oxford will want to talk to me about Geese.

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Booksmaxxing and the illusion of being “disgustingly educated”

If you are as chronically online as I am, then it is more than likely that you will have come across the trend where people proclaim their desire to...

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