Saturday 28th June 2025

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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 Room (MCR) removes a Pride flag from its window. Students have also criticised the College's...

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,...

Oxford Union believes the commodification of women has gone too far

Last Thursday, the Oxford Union passed the motion “This House believes that the commodification...

Pill puts women at risk of cancer

New research from Oxford’s epidemiology unit has confirmed that birth-control pills increase the risk of cervical cancer. The study, published in the Lancet, involved...

Oxford world’s second best university

Oxford is the second best university in the world, according to this year’s THES rankings. The table, ased on a survey of academics and...

Feature: The Bod’s Secret Underbelly

by Henry Clarke PriceI had a slightly strange fixation when I was younger. In the mind of mini-Henry, it was all about tunnels. The...

Album Review: Spice Girls, Greatest Hits

by Robin WhelanI know what you’re thinking: “Snob slates manufactured pop. In other news, Pope Catholic”. But easy prejudices shouldn’t come in to considerations...

Album Review: Sworn Vengeance, Severe Torture

by Phil AherneAs far as the death metal genre goes, Dutch destroyers Severe Torture are commendable for their proficiency, but not their innovation. This...

Live Review: Dizzee Rascal, Carling Academy, 5/11/07

by Lauren JacobsSince Dizzee won the Mercury Prize in 2003 all sorts of questions have been raised regarding his credibility, and whether he has,...

OxTales: Out of the Blue

by Naggeen SadidMeeting Calum Melvile, current President of the all male a capella sensation OOTB, is quite an event. He stood before me wearing...

Venus in Furs

by Ben LatimerCian Ciarán, keyboard player of Super Furry Animals, walks into the interview room looking a little worse for wear. It is hardly...

Hold the Front Page

by Daniel Roberts‘You’re up, big man’ I hear Editors’ tour manager say as I wait outside the band’s dressing room, before bassist Russell Leetch...

Genre Bending: Backpack Hip Hop

by Jack Marley-PayneIn the summer of 1998, four hip-hop artists were disillusioned with the bravado and posturing seemingly entailed by their career choice and...

Fit for young eyes?

by Monique Davis and Mary WaireriInnocenceChildren’s films these days, aside from the bright colours and anthropomorphised animals, are barely distinguishable from adult films. Take...

Sceneplay: The Squid and the Whale

by Hayley MirekThe Squid and the Whale is about a dysfunctional family going through a divorce, combining comedy, drama and awkwardness into ninety minutes...

Film Review: Beowulf

by Mary Claire WaireriBased on the Old English poem of the same name, this epic, action romp bursts onto our screens from the imagination...

Film Review: Brick Lane

by Isabel SuttonI haven’t actually read the Booker prize short-listed novel Brick Lane but, having seen the film, I’m certain it deserves all the...

UPP: Solaris

by Connie HanThe plot of Solaris, such as it is, can be summed up in one faintly absurd sentence. Kris Kelvin, a psychologist, goes...

Restaurant Review: Chutney’s

by Aaron BorboraRarely does one find a curry house that combines excellent food with tasteful surroundings and top-notch service.  But Chutney’s, located on St...

Week at the Union: Democrats in the White House

by Jennifer-Anne HillOne can’t help but feel that the quality of Union debates would be much improved if the debaters spent more time talking...

Lingerie Unlaced

A bit of history: Lingerie is a French word for all underwear, but through some extravagant translation it became, in the English language, a...

A Battle Half Won?

A movement that has run its course? Laura Connell  questions the need for feminism in an increasingly equal society According to the Equal Opportunities Commission’s...

Worcester flying at top of table

Worcester 2 - 0 Wadham WORCESTER raced to a surely insurmountable lead in the Premier Division with a 2-0 home victory over second place Wadham. ...

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