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Oxford Choir hold musical protest against Rosebank oilfield

Oxford Climate Choir, a local activist group, have urged Oxford East MP Anneliese Dodds to oppose the development of the Rosebank oilfield in a musical protest at Radcliffe Square....

University announces collaboration with Vietnamese research institutions

The General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) Central Committee To Lam...

Oxford researchers launch £11 million programme to tackle chronic pain

Researchers at the University of Oxford are leading a new six-year programme to develop...

Oxford Theologian John Henry Newman honoured by Pope Leo XIV

The 19th-century Catholic theologian and Oriel College fellow Cardinal John Henry Newman has been...

Greyhounds dominate Brookes in local derby

 Despite an impressive supporters contingent at Iffely Road, the Oxford Brookes rugby team was sent back up Headington Hill on Wednesday after failing to...

Food, Glorious Food

by Hannah Pennington Cooking beans in your kettle is one of those opportunities to revel in your student status. When you’re not at home and...

Perfect start for ChCh

This is the winning start that Christ Church would have been hoping for, and although an important victory in its own right, it was...

UNited Kingdom?

First week of Michaelmas stands out as an eventful seven days for all Oxford students. The essays haven’t started and Filth is still cool...

Chicken Farmer

 Ben Lafferty This new play by David Cochrane is an attempt to take us into the dissociative psychosis that seized the Nazi cabinet in the...

Sir Sherard Cowper-Coles

Joe MacDonald talks to the British Ambassador to Afghanistan about his career as an envoy Six years after the US and Britain began the...

Worcester rain on Lincoln’s parade

  After a day of torrential downpours it was, somewhat miraculously, glorious sunshine that greeted Lincoln and Worcester for this opening premier clash. Unfortunately...

University to campaign for £1bn

By Matthew Hackett Oxford is to launch the biggest fundraising campaign in its history with a predicted target of £1bn, Vice Chancellor John Hood...

Fewer Emergencies

Max Seddon The problem with experimental theatre is that it’s, well, experimental. You add and take away at random, and you see how it works...

Big Brother – Fun with the Freshers

The recent annual inundation of fresh-faced new students has led to the inevitable freshers’ week fatigue, as party follows party and every drink has...

Bright prospects fail to blow Tabs off court

  The Oxford University men’s badminton team got off to strong start in the league against old rivals Cambridge. The rivalry between the varsity...

How to be the tute partner from hell

There seem to be two specific ways to be the tute partner from hell. Simply put, you can be very, very good or very,...

Stage Whispers: The Producer

It started so innocently. You went to the show after-party hoping to meet the fit lead, and sensing that your pretentious chat might be...

Hidden Art in Oxford

 Why you should go to Keble to see Holman Hunt's Light of The WorldBy Claudia Rimmigton With the exception of the high profile Millais exhibition...

Students to be Disciplined after Drunken Antics at Brasenose

 By Natasha Vashisht THREE students are to be disciplined after a dumbbell hit the window of a Junior Dean’s residence during a drunken prank in...

The Three Crowns Grace The Bodleian

By Alexander ChristofiD ante, Petrarch and Boccaccio were, it’s fair to say, probably the most interesting thing to come out of medieval Italy. The...

Drama Review: Guardians

This is not an easy play to watch. Such contentious topics as Iraq, spin journalism and sadomasochism are not merely explored, but taken apart, and...

Council Appeals to General Public for Photographs in Oxford Clean-Up

Oxford City Council has begun an online hall-of-shame for residents to submit their photographs of local graffiti and abandoned cars in the latest effort...

Restaurant Review: La Tasca

 Such was my lack of faith in restaurant reviews that I was prompted to try the tapas restaurant La Tasca at the Oxford Castle,...

Flood Warning for Oxford Residents

Today, the government was accused by Association of British Insurers for failing to give homeowners and businesses enough money for flood defences.The insurers warned that...

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