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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...

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."

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.

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.

OxTales: Robin Whelan meets the founder of Oxford label Big Scary Monsters

Six years after Kevin Douch founded Big Scary Monsters, the Oxford-based label has established itself as a minor fixture in the industry. Set up...

Interview: Hard-Fi

By Roland ScarlettThe cheesy pop that defined the 90s is increasingly out of vogue and British music is searching for artistic credibility. Placing themselves...

Roisin Murph – Overpowered review

By Emma Butterfield**** I feel a certain affinity with Róisín Murphy, as she’s clearly a frustrated science undergraduate. Why else would she refer to oxytocin...

Land Of Talk – Applause Cheer Boo Hiss review

 By Carl Cullinane ***When is an album not an album? When it’s an agglomeration of an EP and some bonus tracks is certainly one answer,...

Oxford’s image problem is the least of our admissions worries

As an applicant from an FE college to Oxford, I found some problems with James Lamming’s argument that many of the criticisms levelled at...

Respect, revenue and results: it’s time for a central OUSU venue

Ambition takes you places. Warwick University Students’ Union has two buildings which house seven bars, two clubs and a pub, a pizza outlet, a...

Stage Whispers: The Exec

The first time I played a careers “game” in year eleven, I got policeman. Last week the Careers Service asked whether I’d considered something...

Admissions: the final target

Targets are to Labour what alcohol and age are to the Lib Dems: a fatal weakness. From targets to cut NHS waiting times to...

The One That Got Away

By Sam PritchardThere is not enough new writing performed in Oxford. Mounting a production of a play written by a student is a demanding...

Universities are not here to fix the faults of schools

I’ve never been a fan of the word “admissions”. Entry to a fairground is an admission. The red-faced explanation you make to the A&E...

Living Together

By Elena LynchLiving Together is the story of what happens in the course of one weekend in the living room of the family home...

Editorial

If the elected leadership of the Oxford Union wish to invite a pair of controversial figures to argue with, then they are entirely within...

Small Change

 By Max Seddon Samuel Beckett’s influence on Peter Gill is obvious and acknowledged. Beckett as touchstone, in fact, for the drama sans drama is so...

Blues left short-changed by draw

Oxford 2 -2 Warwick MARTIN Keown is becoming more patient with age. The newly appointed Blues coach stood calmly on the touchline, despite witnessing a...

Why do we tickle?

Considered by some to be affectionate horseplay and by others a fairly sinister form of sexual harassment, tickling has long fascinated great thinkers as...

The Goat, or Who is Sylvia?

By Jeremy Cliffe Is there anything anyone doesn’t get off on, whether we admit it or not?” In this pithy question the protagonist of Edward...

Gaelic football Blues sail to victory against East Londoners

Oxford 4-9 (21)  -  University of East London 1-7 (10) A COMMANDING second half performance saw the Oxford Gaelic Football men walk away from their...

Rout sends Oxford up to cloud nine

Oxford 9 - 1 LeicesterAS THE dark clouds of October descended over Iffley Road, it seemed only the glaring pink jerseys of the two...

Amen, Greyfriars

Outraged students at Greyfriars have attacked the Hall authorities’ decision to permanently close without consulting any members of the student body.Greyfriars, one of the...

Blues leagues ahead of sorry Coventry

AFTER arriving ten minutes after the scheduled kick off time, Coventry must have hoped that it was time for their luck to change. Instead,...

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