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Oxford Reform Society registers for Michaelmas

The University of Oxford has a Reform UK society for the first time, after registering with the Proctors.  After a six-month wait to approve their application, the political society announced...
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Finance workers strike at Oxford University Press

Finance workers are on strike at Oxford University Press (OUP) over plans to offshore jobs to India, with trade union officials warning that “before long this great British institution will exist in the UK in name only."
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Oxford academics sign open letter opposing Nathan Cofnas’ suspension

Cofnas, a postdoctoral researcher at Ghent University, Belgium, and self-described “race realist”, was responsible for publicising allegations that the late Cambridge professor Jason Arday had plagiarised his doctoral thesis.
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Over 500 sign open letter urging Oxford to resist “transphobic” EHRC code

Oxford University LGBTQ+ Society (OULGBTQ) has urged the University of Oxford’s Vice Chancellor and the wider Oxford community “not to passively accept transphobia,” in an open letter signed by over 500 students and staff.
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Cherwell24 and Cherwell Editorial Team HT2008

Cherwell24Editor: Selena [email protected] Editors: Leon Harrington and Charlotte [email protected] Deputy Editors: Daniel Millichip and Tom [email protected] CherwellEditors: Laura Pitel and Tom [email protected] Editors:...

Love letter to Hillary Clinton, the casserole fowl

Bild (sensationalist red-top) columnist Franz Josef Wagner always writes a letter to a person or  group as his regular newspaper piece. His latest one...

Not quite the River Main of Blood

The REAL election '08The boss is in trouble. State Prime Minister Roland Koch is being branded a racist for a pre-election statement… and his...

Could this be the start of a magnificent journey?

For a while I’ve thought the dull German media could do with an injection of the Murdoch treatment. And it seems my wish has...

They’re all saying it

The REAL election '08The wonderfully named Guido Westerwelle, leader of Germany's centre-right liberal Free Democrats, has taken after Hillary Clinton (and everyone else) and...

Slightly off-topic

Enough about this FA Cup magic nonsense already! There's one reason why no one cares about the FA Cup any more. The final's no...

The REAL election ‘08

Welcome back, and happy new year. Three weeks tomorrow, the state of Hesse goes to the polls in the regional elections certain to get...

Union Re-Poll to Go Ahead Unchanged

The re-poll of last term’s overturned Union election will go ahead in 2nd week of this term, as the Appellate Board publishes its final...

Exhibition Review: Joan Eardley at the RSA, Edinburgh

Vibrant and varied, Joan Eardley is well worth seeing for the artist’s influence on Scottish painting and for the expressive nature of her work,...

Oxford student named as Bhutto successor

Assassinated Pakistan ex-Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto’s son Bilawal has been appointed chairman of the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) along with his father, Asif Ali...

Ski Trip Student Dies of Hypothermia

A Keble student has died of hypothermia on a skiing holiday after becoming lost trying to get back to his chalet.Jonathan Hard, 21, who...

Benazir Bhutto Assassinated

Pakistani former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto has today been assassinated. Bhutto was killed at a campaign rally when a suicide bomber shot her in...

Omkar sentence upheld

The Appellate Board investigating this term’s Union tribunal against Krishna Omkar has fully upheld the original verdict and sentence. The appeal hearing held on...

Merry Christmas to all our racist readers

The PC stagnation hasn’t quite hit the banks of the River Main yet. Blair’s Christmas card bloomer a few years ago changed things slightly...

It’s time for change

Three months ago I launched this blog as a German press review. Well, ideas have moved on, and I’m now re-launching it with a...

Tribunal verdict upheld

The Appellate Board held today to hear Krishna Omkar's appeal against the tribunal verdict that found him guilty of electoral malpractice, disqualifying him from...

Crossing continents with Facebook’s help

I came across a "German Newspaper Front Pages" application on Facebook. I thought it went well with this blog. Its description tells us:This application...

Dead Beat — The Perverse Pleasures of Obituaries, by Marilyn Johnson

A book review by Christopher Perfect The obituary pages of a newspaper do not immediately strike one as the richest resource for a life-affirming...

Finally, the Brits beat the Germans at something: scandals

The good news: We beat Germany, and it wasn't even in a war.The bad news: It wasn't a penalty shootout either. It was a...

‘Culture of arrogance’ says Union Tribunal

UPDATED Thursday 6th December A report issued by the tribunal investigating last term’s Union Presidential election is highly critical of key figures involved in...
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