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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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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. ...

Hockey girls send Mary’s lambs to slaughter

Oxford 3 - 0 St Mary's A COMMANDING performance saw the Oxford Women’s Hockey team continue their glistening run of form, in the dark surroundings...

Blues on home turf prove too hard a challenge for Greyhounds

Brookes 10 - 8 Greyhounds FREEZING cold conditions did nothing to deter players on either side from attacking with physicality, but Brookes’ staunch defending denied the...

Blues boast squash victory

Loughborough 0 -5 Oxford AFTER a slow start to the season, Oxford’s decimated and rejuvenated Blues squash team have acquired a taste for victory against...

Diary of a captain – women’s rugby Blues

Thursday After a minibus test, I turn my attention to the forthcoming week. Unusually, the Blues have only played one BUSA Premier League fixture...

Tigers tamed as Catz run in five

Catz 31 - 7 LMH/TrinityUPON promotion to the top flight, the last thing any side would want is to face a team that ran...

An absurd denial

It is difficult to imagine what Union President Luke Tryl envisaged when he first decided to invite Nick Griffin and David Irving. Did he...

Hall miss chance to shock Keble

ON a wet and windy afternoon, spectators who braved the conditions were treated to an extremely physical encounter between the increasingly dominant Keble and...

Where’s the originality in student journalism?

by Peter BowdenAll student journalists must die; every single one, rounded up and shot in the face at point-blank range, for the good of...

From the Reds to the Blues

NOT every Blues squad can boast an ex-international with forty-three caps and three league titles, not to mention a hat-trick of FA Cups, spurring...

Proposed Bod depository will ruin dreaming spires

by Debbie DanceO n Tuesday, Oxford City Council will consider an application from Oxford University for its new library depository, which it hopes to...

And Now for Something Completely Different

Oxford, the site of so many significant scientific discoveries, is the perfect place for a History of Science Museum. Largely ignored despite its prominent...

Something is rotten in the state of Oxford drama

An open letter to Oxford University Dramatic Society from Oxford’s theatre-going audience: Get over yourselves.  Earlier this term, Cherwell stage editor Rob Morgan, in...

President Kufour

By Sarah KentJohn Kofi Agyekun Kufuor, President of Ghana, arrived at the Union with fully twenty dignitaries and journalists in tow. It was an...

Far right call to arms against Union protests

Far right groups have called for a campaign targeting students who demonstrate against Nick Griffin and David Irving’s appearances at the Oxford Union in...

Flip Side: Casual Sex

Rebecca Lacey warns of the dangers of irresponsible sexWhat springs to mind when you think of casual sex? Drunken fumbling at the Bridge leading...
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