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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)...

An End Has a Start – Editors

Editors walked a fine line. Plagiarisers in extremis? Spirit-channelling musical mediums? Fiery flashes in the notorious indie pan? First album ‘The Back Room’ went...

Funf – Clinic

‘Funf’ collates ten years’ worth of the Liverpool band’s ‘B-sides and rarities’ into something of a diverse collection. Clinic recycle the clichés of their...

Maximo Park ‘Secret’ Gig

This is one of those corporate things which normally we’d shy away from acknowledging - part of Vodafone’s ‘Live Music Campaign,’ according to their...

Harvey the hero as Wadham collapse

he misfiring Keble XI finally registered a victory in the league in a topsy-turvy tussle with Wadham.Keble captain, Peter Bolton, won the toss and...

Single set seals Hilda’s Cuppers victory

There are a number of elements which comprise women’s tennis at it’s best, with short skirts, grunting and a gloriously sunny day all up...

Penalties Stu much for old rivals

On Saturday the hacks from St Aldates and Frewin Court laid down their notebooks and put on their football kits for the traditional end...

BUSA Blues for Oxford?

A quick question for you: what links Edinburgh, Nottingham and UWIC? Answer: according to the BUSA league table, they’re all better than Oxford at...

Tories appeal for Cabinet inquiry into Oxford don

A Conservative MP has called for an Oxford don to be investigated by the Cabinet Office after he was accused in a leaked letter...

Ethical Travel

Worried that your cheap summer flights are choking the environment? Ed Parker on getting around the green way.The prospect of over three months without...

Have you met…Tom Corcoran and Gregor Jotzu?

"Gregor Jotzu is one of the finest men I have ever met," says Tom Corcoran of the athlete, aesthete and all-round ‘culture king’. Gregor...

Monika Zak

The Swedish journalist who exposed human rights atrocities to the world talks to Iona Bergius about torture, terrorism and life undercover Monica Zak first...

Animal rights group threatens to sue police

Animal rights group Speak has threatened to take legal action against Thames Valley Police after a judge ruled last week that they had been...

Turnbull denies Hell claims

Principal of Wycliffe Hall, Dr Richard Turnbull, has reacted against recent accusations of reactionary evangelicalism at his College in an article published in the...

The call of the wild

Want to do it like they do on the Discovery Channel? Rebecca Fry on the surprising similarities between human and animal behaviour. My very first...

Uni scientists find ancient relics

Oxford scientists in Morocco have uncovered the earliest examples of human jewellery ever found. The 82,000 year-old artefacts were found by a team in...

Where did it all go wrong for… Oxford’s toilets?

In 1379 New College built a cesspit of such epic proportions that it took 300 years worth of students’ waste to fill it. Yet...

Beatles cover launched online

The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (ODNB) is launching an online exhibition to mark the 40th anniversary of the Beatles’ Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts...

Tales from the lodge: Univ

Run, jump, praise the Lord. Hallelujah! Over the years, Univ has come to boast the highest pedigree of porters, many of whom have earned themselves...

Oxford Museum celebrates classic

The Story Museum in Oxford will launch ‘Alice’s Day’ on July 7 to celebrate Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, a work of children’s literature written...

Let the poor man speak

A Nobel Peace Prize Winner, former world leader, renowned advocate for peace and founder of an institution renowned for its election monitoring is receiving...

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