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Jack Hunter

Jack Hunter was the editor of Cherwell in MT17. Follow him: @_jackhunter or email [email protected]

A quarter of Jewish students fear anti-Semitic hate crime, NUS report finds

Two thirds of Jewish students believe they are targeted as a result of their faith, but do not trust NUS to respond appropriately

Oxford students charged £92,254 in overdue library fines in 2015-16

News figures revealed by Freedom of Information request

Details emerge of George Osborne’s Isis editorship

Remaining copies of the new Evening Standard editor’s 1992 ‘Hemp Edition’ had mysteriously vanished from the Oxford Union archives

Malala Yousafzai receives offer to study at Oxford

BREAKING: Nobel Prize winning activist will study PPE at LMH so long as she achieves AAA offer, Telegraph report claims

Oxford University gives squatters five days to vacate temporary homeless shelter

Osney Open House say 21 homeless people must leave former power station by Sunday, after Oxford University serve possession order in court

Oxford ranked world no. 1 in four subjects

QS World University Rankings place Oxford as the world's best in four subject areas—ahead of Cambridge

Oxford has highest number of top-earning staff

Oxford University has more senior post holders earning over £100,000 annually than any other university, newly-released figures have revealed

Oxford has most sexual harassments of students by staff in the UK – report

Guardian investigation finds Oxford has the highest number of staff-on-student and staff-on-staff sexual harassment allegations of any UK university

Oxford Brexit boss: academics feel “threatened” by Leave vote

Despite concerns, Oxford University sees a ten per cent rise in European applications since the EU referendum last year

Medical student uses unborn baby’s brain for research without parents’ permission

An unborn baby’s brain was used by an Oxford medical student without its parents’ permission. The student at the John Radcliffe Hospital used the foetal...

Revealed: Oxford’s use of controversial ‘gagging clauses’

Oxford University has repeatedly used so-called “gagging clauses” in redundancy settlements with former employees, figures obtained by Cherwell reveal. A Freedom of Information (FOI) request...

Profile: Chuka Umunna

I haven’t spoken to very many MPs before, but I imagine there are few with whom you could launch straight into a conversation about...

BREAKING: “Huge explosion” on Oxford’s River Thames

Emergency services are currently on the scene at what is being described as a "huge explosion" involving a house boat at the Osney Boatyard area in...