Thursday 11th September 2025

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Oxford spinout OrganOx acquired by Terumo in record $1.5 billion deal

OrganOx, a University of Oxford spinout specialising in organ preservation technology, has been acquired by Japanese healthcare company Terumo Corporation for £1.18 billion. The deal announced this week marks...

Your Party society launched as ‘union of the left’ at Oxford

A new political society promising to “facilitate the discussion of left-wing ideas” has been...

Oxford colleges take Aviva to High Court in COVID-19 insurance case

Twenty-nine Oxford colleges have launched High Court proceedings against insurance firm Aviva. The case,...

Oxford Union sued for editing Susan Abulhawa’s speech

The European Legal Support Center (ELSC) has filed a discrimination claim against the Oxford...

Drama Review: Roussos!

by Frankie Parham  For something with an exclamation mark in its title, you’d expect Roussos! to be loud, bizarre and confrontational. For all the...

Three University staff named women of the year

Three members of Oxford University staff have been named as 'Oxfordshire Women of the Year 2007'. Mrs Elizabeth Crawford, Professor Helen Mardon, and Professor...

A photo? Shock! Horror!

Get this. The German elite are up in arms over the Frankfurter Allgemeine's latest "redesign". If you can call it that.The leading national paper,...

Art Review: Light and Shadow at Sanders of Oxford

by Christopher PerfectIn today’s Oxford, the enormous changes of the last thirty years, of which we are reminded at every opportunity, sometimes make it...

Singles Club 3rd Week: Sons and Daughters, Keane, Willy Mason, and Beverly Knight

Our reviewers round up the best and worst of this week's single releases. Sons And Daughters – Gilt Complex (Dan Rawnsley) *** A best of Sons and...

The Facts About: Depression

  “It was a feeling of total inertia. I just didn’t want to do anything, not even get out of bed”.  “Everything I used...

Employees Face Discipline over Facebook

Employees found misusing internet networking websites like Facebook or MySpace will face disciplinary hearings, it was warned earlier today.Local district councils, such as the...

Oxford days come back to haunt Lib Dem

A Liberal Democrat leadership contender found his days at Oxford coming back to haunt him this weekend as an article he wrote advocating the...

Album Review: Jimmy Eat World, Chase This Light

It should be noted at this stage that I’m in no position to review this album objectively. I fell in love with Jimmy Eat...

Art Review: ‘The Journey So Far’ by Konstanty Czartoryski and Adeniyi Olagunju

by Griselda Murray Brown   ‘The Journey so Far’ brings together various media and diverse places. Adeniyi’s mainly large scale, colour photographs counterpoise Konstanty’s intimate...

College Warns of Unexpected Fire Hazards

Hertford College issued a warning to its students about fire safety earlier in the week after a student's pyjamas caught fire.The incident occurred when a...

Cherwell Pubcast Week 2: The Week in Drama

Our second week pubcast reviews the past week in Oxford drama, featuring an interview with Elizabeth Gray, writer and star of Wish I Had...

Blue Plaque Unveiled

Jane Burden, wife of William Morris, was honoured with a blue plaque yesterday at St Helen's Passage, off Holywell Street.Burden, who was allegedly born...

Love, hate, jealousy…and science?

Sarah Fordham unweaves the rainbow of our emotions, and argues that science cannot tell us what it means to be human   What is it...

Diary of a captain – Blues Netball

For this year, the role of Captain within Oxford University Netball Club has been subtly redefined. As the Club Captain (Katelin) and the Blues’...

Review: Extras

By Monique Davis***In a word, Polish film Extras is decent. However, I have just been told by my editor that I am expected to...

Review: Sicko

By Isabel Sutton**Number three in Michael Moore’s repertoire of bomb-shell big-screen documentaries has arrived and it’s as predictable as can be.  The target this...

Brasserie Blanc

By Kate Barrett Raymond Blanc has hit the spot with his relaxed and friendly Brasserie on Walton street, Jericho. Of an evening, the average student...

Review: The Witnesses

By Chantal Hadley****Even from the opening credit sequence I was struck by the similarity between Philippe Sarde’s mournful violin music and Philip Glass’s violin...

Idlewild – Scottish Fiction Review

By Dave Challiner ***Greatest hits compilations are often geared to provide the listener with an opportunity to look back and consider the trajectory of a...

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