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Liz Truss promises Oxbridge admissions shakeup

OURFC condemns Rugby Football Union’s ‘trans ban’

Trashing: Only Eight Students Fined Despite Promised Crack-Down

Linacre name change donation under government investigation

Balliol student ejected from accommodation

The Guardian of the Constitution: an institutional look at the jubilee

How did we get here? Democrats, political power, and the fight for American abortion rights

The life-sucking vampire: exams and the logic of capitalism

Northern Ireland’s three-way split

Beyond the Etonians: Simon Kuper’s Chums in today’s Oxford

Sonnet for Foxe by Anna Cowan and Ruth Port

Plenmeller House

A Drink by Edward McLaren

Once Long Ago

Lord Reginald Moreton of Oxfordshire

Liz Truss promises Oxbridge admissions shakeup

Is Labour still about labour?

The Economics of Pride

Sadie Levy Gale

Cherwell Culture Tries… Hot Yoga

RAG Bungee Jumping

A Bridge Too Far?

Interview: Hadley Freeman – How to be Awesome

Interview: Cornelia Parker

What are Wordsworth?

Review: ‘Magda’ by Meike Ziervogel

On Hilary’s Own Terms

LabLit – A new fictional genre?

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