Monday 2nd March 2026

News

‘Connivery’ and ‘cheating’: Former officials interfered with Oxford Union tribunals

On 1st February, during a tribunal hearing, Samy Medjdoub – the former Secretary of the Oxford Union, who is currently suspended for having fabricated minutes – texted former President...

Students join protest outside re-opened Campsfield House

CW: Suicide  Students from the University of Oxford society Student Action For Refugees (STAR) today...

UKIP leader Nick Tenconi stages Cornmarket Street border control debate

Nick Tenconi, leader of the UK Independence Party (UKIP) and Chief Operating Officer of Turning Point UK, visited Oxford today to take part in a public street debate on Cornmarket Street.

Royal Mail upgrades Oxford postboxes to ‘postboxes of the future’

Postboxes across Oxford – and across the UK – have been wrapped in black...

Generation Y: backseat drivers or aimless autopilots?

Cappuccino is back in business with my sincere apologies for the long hiatus. As you can see, I’ve been busy posting elsewhere in cyberland,...

5 Things We Didn’t Know Last Week

1) Sinister left-handed gene found. Scientists working in Oxford’s Wellcome Trust Centre for Genetics believe carrying the gene may slightly raise the risk of...

Merton College holds onto Norrington top spot

Hardworking Mertonians across the country will be feeling smug today thanks to news that their college has topped the 2007 Norrington table for the...

The Million Dollar/Pound Question

On Friday night, I went to a baseball game where my hometown Yankees were ingloriously destroyed by the Tampa Bay Devils. My long hiatus...

5 Things we didn’t know last week

1)       One small move of a counter – one giant leap for computer-kind. Scientists in Canada claim to have written a program which can...

Flash Floods Hit Oxfordshire

Torrential downpours hit Oxfordshire yesterday causing severe flooding and transport delays.Many train routes in and around Oxford have been cancelled or rerouted, leaving passengers stranded...

Staying Power: Does anyone have it anymore?

Way back in 2005, I wrote a few columns about generation gaps and aging. You see, in a Web 2.0 world, where things can...

Exit Facebook – Enter Deep Space

Your Physicists Need You! An Oxford team of astrophysicists is enlisting the public's help in classifying newly discovered galaxies at http://www.galaxyzoo.org/ The name is...

Proctors turn to Facebook

Oxford's Proctors have resorted to Facebook in their latest campaign against post-exam celebrations.   Senior members of Univeristy staff are using the social networking...

Oxford student guilty of manslaughter

Oxford student Will Jaggs has pleaded guilty to killing a 25 year-old woman in a frenzied sexually-motivated attack.Jaggs, an English literature student at Oriel...

My Cyber-friends have manners too

My mother says the scariest thing about Facebook is that there are no rules. How can I distinguish love interests from professional contacts when...

Strickland goes for MP

Earlier this week saw former OUSU President Alan Strickland vying to take over Tony Blair’s position as MP for Sedgefield.  After more than 50...

Summer Archival

We've been getting a lot of questions about site archiving. Please rest assured we have not forgotten you or your previous work! We'll be...

I’m Running Faster, but the Finish Line is further away

There's a weird paradox in the way Gen Y lives and works. Everywhere I am reading about how the Millennials are super-driven, hyper-informed, search...

"Are We There Yet?": Interview with Rosie Whitehouse

In Sarajevo, as the wife of a BBC war correspondent, Rosie Whitehouse and her five children “heard the firing of the shots that started...

Voteforme.com: electoral politics and Web 2.0

Once upon a time, Facebook was for Ivy Leaguers, iPods were for tech geeks, and CNN was for the politicos.Nowadays, Oxford tutors are on...

Coffee Break: Introducing Instant Cappuccino

Hi all,I’m taking a break from end-of-year packing to introduce myself, and this blog, to you. Mine is a big packing job, since I’m...

First Night Review: The Balcony

Genet’s The Balcony is a very strange play. First performed in London in 1957, its opening night was laced with drama as Genet accused...

First Night Review: Government Inspector

This version of ‘The Government Inspector’, directed by Sophie Pinn, is a lively, fast-moving comedy that provides a fun night of light entertainment. Gogol’s...

‘Big Damn Movie’ on the Big Damn Screen: Firefly / Serenity at the UPP

I’ve just heard that some members of OU staff are screening the feature-length pilot of Joss Whedon’s show Firefly at the Ultimate Picture Palace...

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