Wednesday 13th August 2025

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SU Sabbatical Officers urge Government to “remove the barriers” to Gazan students reaching the UK

Sabbatical Officers at the Oxford University Student Union (SU) have signed an open letter urging the UK Government “to ensure that students from Gaza who have been offered places...

Lindsay Skoll announced as new Jesus Principal

Jesus College have announced that British diplomat Lindsay Skoll will take up the role...

Oxford University Press ceases publication of Chinese-owned journal following ethical concerns

Oxford University Press (OUP) will cease the publication of the Forensic Sciences Research (FSR)...

Union row splits University

OUSU COUNCIL passed an emergency motion condemning the Oxford Union last Friday after its decision to invite Nick Griffin and David Irving to address...

Happy People?

Heid Jerstad visits the Buddhist kingdom of Bhutan in search of temples, politics and the truth behind Gross National Happiness Young people these days are...

Review: ‘Delete this at your peril’ by Bob Servant

This is a book that needed to be written. It is a declaration of defiance and warfare against one of the most dangerous threats...

Big Brother: Matriculation Madness

Michaelmas…sub-fusc…matriculation…on top of my modern languages degree, this time last year I had to learn the oxford lingo and prepare myself for one of...

The Devil reads Vogue

Deputy Fashion editor of The Guardian (and former editor of Cherwell) Hadley Freeman warns Daniel Rolle that fashion journalism isn’t all about doing lunch,...

Violence mars Wadham house parties

POLICE officers arrested a drunken man who violently attacked students at a Wadham house party on Iffley Road last Saturday night.The man, who witnesses...

Bishops to inspect Wycliffe

TROUBLED PPH Wycliffe Hall has come under further pressure after the Church of England announced this week that it had brought forward a scheduled...

High Table

 Millie Maler, DPhil Candidate, AstrophysicsA third year graduate student at Christ Church reading for a DPhil in Astrophysics, last year Millie took astrophysics tutorials...

How to be Queen of the Bop

Known for cringeworthy music, precarious outfits and floors sticky with the spilled vodka-cokes and lager of over-excited or over-drunk students, the bop is as...

Look Mum, I’ve downloaded a first class degree!

Let’s flashback a few years. Remember waiting anxiously for those A-level results to see if you’d ever get to punt on the Isis and...

German humour, part 2

A bit better this. The originally-named satirical blog Satire Blog thinks the top dogs should rename Berlin-Brandenburg International Airport "Willy Brandt Airport", "Helmut Kohl...

Funfairs

People here go to funfairs, some people go twice a week. They look forward to it.The whole af-fair (apologies) began when I exitted the...

Laptops Stolen From Office

£3000 worth of computers were stolen from an office in South Bar, Banbury, on Monday night.Four Toshiba laptops, each costing around £800, were stolen...

Plans for New Exchange Programme Announced

Plans have been announced for a new exchange programme with a university in Taiwan. Earlier this month the President of the National Taiwan University...

Review: Slam Poetry at the Port Mahon 15/10/07

By William HarrisHammer and Tongue 'Protect the Human' Poetry Slam “We’re running on poetry time”, said the bubbly, pink-clad Sophia Blackwell. That’s when...

First Night Review: Greek

by Marley Morris Berkoff’s tragedy ‘Greek’, based on Sophocles’ ‘Oedipus Rex’, thrusts in front of us a vision of a decadent and brutal London.  It...

First Night Review: Chicken Farmer

by Marc Kidson It is a pet fact of many History teachers that before becoming one of the chief architects of mass murder for the...

Sniffling and Spluttering? Help is at Hand…

The problem with having a cold is that people don’t generally feel sorry for you. In fact, they tend to feel rather annoyed. Your...

First Night Review: Fewer Emergencies

 by Luke Bullock  I have to admit that I went to see Martin Crimp’s Fewer Emergencies with a degree of trepidation.  Like many theatregoers these...

Oxford Academic lands Australian University Top Position

A leading Oxford academic is to take on the position of vice Chancellor at Sydney University next year. Michael Spence, an expert in intellectual...

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