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Over 10% of Oxford offers come from just 14 schools

Many schools across the country dream of sending just one student to Oxford. For some, though, it’s an expectation. The image of Oxford as a training ground for the elite...

Exclusive: University spent over £360,000 in pro-Palestine protest clean-ups

Oxford University has incurred over £360,000 in costs as a result of pro-Palestine protests...

Pro-Palestine encampment established outside Magdalen

As of Sunday morning, the encampment has since disbanded, having relocated to the Angel...

Ukrainian energy delegation meets with Christ Church academics

A delegation from the Ukrainian government visited Christ Church on Friday 25th April to...

‘Cannot tell their left hand from their right’

That's how the people of Nineveh are described the Book of Jonah, but we might equally claim it about the Germans. Or at least...

Genre Bending: La Nouvelle Scène Rock Française

By Chantal Hadley The nouvelle scène is, well, pretty self explanatory. It’s new: many of the bands in it have only released their debut albums...

Rock’n’Revolt

Cara Bleiman examines the relationship between music and politics.To ask whether music has the potential to be political is completely old hat, well old...

OxTales: Robin Whelan meets the founder of Oxford label Big Scary Monsters

Six years after Kevin Douch founded Big Scary Monsters, the Oxford-based label has established itself as a minor fixture in the industry. Set up...

Interview: Hard-Fi

By Roland ScarlettThe cheesy pop that defined the 90s is increasingly out of vogue and British music is searching for artistic credibility. Placing themselves...

Roisin Murph – Overpowered review

By Emma Butterfield**** I feel a certain affinity with Róisín Murphy, as she’s clearly a frustrated science undergraduate. Why else would she refer to oxytocin...

Land Of Talk – Applause Cheer Boo Hiss review

 By Carl Cullinane ***When is an album not an album? When it’s an agglomeration of an EP and some bonus tracks is certainly one answer,...

Oxford’s image problem is the least of our admissions worries

As an applicant from an FE college to Oxford, I found some problems with James Lamming’s argument that many of the criticisms levelled at...

Respect, revenue and results: it’s time for a central OUSU venue

Ambition takes you places. Warwick University Students’ Union has two buildings which house seven bars, two clubs and a pub, a pizza outlet, a...

Stage Whispers: The Exec

The first time I played a careers “game” in year eleven, I got policeman. Last week the Careers Service asked whether I’d considered something...

Admissions: the final target

Targets are to Labour what alcohol and age are to the Lib Dems: a fatal weakness. From targets to cut NHS waiting times to...

The One That Got Away

By Sam PritchardThere is not enough new writing performed in Oxford. Mounting a production of a play written by a student is a demanding...

Universities are not here to fix the faults of schools

I’ve never been a fan of the word “admissions”. Entry to a fairground is an admission. The red-faced explanation you make to the A&E...

Living Together

By Elena LynchLiving Together is the story of what happens in the course of one weekend in the living room of the family home...

Editorial

If the elected leadership of the Oxford Union wish to invite a pair of controversial figures to argue with, then they are entirely within...

Small Change

 By Max Seddon Samuel Beckett’s influence on Peter Gill is obvious and acknowledged. Beckett as touchstone, in fact, for the drama sans drama is so...

Blues left short-changed by draw

Oxford 2 -2 Warwick MARTIN Keown is becoming more patient with age. The newly appointed Blues coach stood calmly on the touchline, despite witnessing a...

Why do we tickle?

Considered by some to be affectionate horseplay and by others a fairly sinister form of sexual harassment, tickling has long fascinated great thinkers as...

The Goat, or Who is Sylvia?

By Jeremy Cliffe Is there anything anyone doesn’t get off on, whether we admit it or not?” In this pithy question the protagonist of Edward...

Gaelic football Blues sail to victory against East Londoners

Oxford 4-9 (21)  -  University of East London 1-7 (10) A COMMANDING second half performance saw the Oxford Gaelic Football men walk away from their...