Friday 18th July 2025

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Students frustrated over filming at Brasenose College during exam season

Students at Brasenose College expressed their frustration last week after scenes for a forthcoming sequel to My Fault: London were shot on the College’s grounds. At the time of...

Hertford College faces student criticism for limiting display of Pride flag

Hertford College is facing backlash from students following a request that the Middle Common...

Encaenia in photos: Oxford’s honorary degree award ceremony

The University of Oxford awarded eight honorary degrees at its annual Encaenia awards ceremony...

Oxford admissions report reveals significant college and subject disparities

Oxford University has released its Annual Admissions Statistical Report, providing information about undergraduate applications,...

College football round up – 3rd week

PREMIER DIVISION New 1 Oriel 2 Oriel eased past a dogged New College to maintain their climb of the Premier Division table. New started well, but...

What’s the real reason?

Pacifist raises the issue (commenting on my last post) that Germany’s reluctance to get involved in military operations such as Afghanistan may not have...

Stage preview: I Love Peach Blossom

Admittedly, it is difficult to talk about a play with full confidence when the only performance you’ve seen is one in which a translator...

Club review: Sex On the Beat, Wed 30th Jan

Where can I begin with Sex on the Beat? With the beat. The night is all about the music: a fusion of dirty electro,...

Exhibition Review: Emma Dougherty, ‘Phi*lat*e*ly’, at ‘The Vaults’

In Spectrum I, eight long canvases hang in a line. In lifeless cooperation, the yellow gives way to the red, the red to the...

Jamie Oliver to Open New restaurant in Oxford

Jamie Oliver is to open an Italian restaurant in Oxford in what used to be the Cock and Camel pub on George Street.Jamie bought...

Take part in the first Feral Beast survey

Germany has been reluctant to get involved in military conflicts around the world since the events of the 1930s and 40s. Last week the...

Exhibition Review: Chinese Prints 1950-2006 at the Ashmolean, Part 2

by Lucy ArchibaldPart Two of the Ashmolean’s Chinese Prints exhibition showcases the work of established Chinese printmakers to Western audiences for the first time....

The Oxford Mentality?

Are we all slaves to the Oxford mindset? And is it really all that bad, Sam Harding asks. Last week, in a spare hour...

Review: The Flu Season

by Sophie FrewSee also: video preview of the play A few first night fluffs aside, this cast made a very strong team under...

Review: Dangerous Liaisons

by Frankie Parham *** Beneath all the powdered wigs and tightly strung corsets, 18th century France was bursting with selfish, sex-crazed,...

Goal of the year… already (with video content)

Only the Germans would put their Goal of the Year competition in February. But here it is anyway, the winner, Diego’s 62.6m punt for...

COMMENT: Brideshead Revisited

I used to think Evelyn Waugh was a woman, because I didn’t think a man could be called Evelyn. Then I discovered that there...

COMMENT: Gordon Brown: My (Small) Part in his Downfall

by James Wright.No, I’m not behind the Northern Rock crisis. No, I’m not the cause of current global economic uncertainty. And no, despite the...

CD review: Vampire Weekend

4/5Vampire Weekend- Vampire WeekendAfter the buzz generated by the Blue CD-R, a self-produced demo distributed by the band at gigs last year, and a...

Blues athlete of the week: Alex Toogood

Blues Athlete of the Week takes the form this week of an exclusive interview with Blues’ superstar striker Alex Toogood.Does your high profile in Oxford...

An afterthought on the far left’s hypocrisy

Remember this old rustbucket? The far-left party here in Germany, Die Linke, set one loose on the streets of Frankfurt just before last week’s...

Web 2.0 Voting, revisited

Like many Americans, I am an undecided voter. Not in the way you think, though. I’ve made up my mind about whom to vote...

Video: Classy Accommodation

Rachel Fraser and Sarah Karacs investigate Teddy Hall guests and discover that tensions break out as worlds collide.

University Agrees to Repatriate Human Remains For the First Time

Oxford University agreed to return four sets of human remains currently held in the University Museum of Natural History back to New Zealand. This...

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