Friday 1st May 2026

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Local election manifestos published as student candidates contest key wards

The Labour Party, the Green Party and the Liberal Democrats have released their manifestos ahead of the upcoming Oxford City Council elections, as a number of current and recent University of Oxford students contest seats across the city.

Carl Benjamin disinvited from Oxford Union amid backlash from FemSoc and IHH

On Thursday, the Oxford Union held a debate on the motion ‘This House Believes That Being British is a ‘Birthright’, Not a Choice’. Carl Benjamin, who had been scheduled to speak, was disinvited from the event shortly before it took place. 

Second Oxfordshire Patriots protest this term met with counterprotesters

The Oxfordshire Patriots held a demonstration last Saturday in the city centre outside the Oxfordshire County Council offices. They were met by counter-protestors from Oxford Stand Up To Racism (OSUTR).

University of Oxford paid private firm for ‘intelligence’ on student protest

The University of Oxford has been named as one of twelve UK universities that paid a private intelligence consultancy run by former military intelligence officials to monitor student activism.

Going bananas for Fairtrade

St John's and Brasenose consider applying for Fairtrade status

Chemistry top for dropouts

Roughly one quarter of all drop-outs in the past two years were chemists

Blake suspect fraud arrest

Police appeal for information

"Missing" Brookes student found

"Missing" student had been writing dissertation for three weeks

New visas to cost Oxford £74m

Impact will be an "economic and cultural hit"

Fashion Week under fire

Members of Oxford Fashion Week complain over treatment

Access scheme wins acclaim

OUSU's Target Schools campaign "great success"

BNC find formal hall dis-grace-ful

Brasenose students deem Latin grace at formal hall “inappropriate”

College aids Christchurch

Christ Church Dean launches aid appeal for earthquake-hit New Zealand city

Union embraces Scientology

Church member leaves Oxford Union Scientology works in his will

Lost students find way back home

Students raise money for charity by hitch-hiking

Men dominate in Oxford societies

Societies must 'take action' says OUSU VP

Oxford "sixth" for student experience

Oxford falls three places in the Times Higher Education "Student Experience" rankings

Gaza scholarship

Jesus College moves towards creation of Palestinian scholarship

Patten may join BBC

University's Chancellor expected to clinch top BBC job

Students in de-Nile

Year abroad students set to return to Egypt

Placebo effect works in reverse

Oxford study finds expectation alters drug response

Smiley returns to Oxford

Le Carré donates entire literary archive to Bod

Porter to stand down from NUS

President will not seek re-election

Student census warning

Oxford city council could lose funding

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