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Plans for new Oxford graduate college approved

Oxford City Council has approved plans for a new postgraduate medical college in Headington. The plans also include a mental health hospital and a modern facility for brain sciences research, forming a new Warneford Park development centred on mental health and brain research.

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Union President-Elect found guilty of electoral fraud by Tribunal

Catherine Xu, the Oxford Union’s President-Elect for Michaelmas 2026, has been permanently barred from holding office at the Society after an Election Tribunal found that she orchestrated a scheme to impersonate legitimate voters at the Hilary Term 2026 election.

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Oxford research changes scientists’ understanding of the development of complex life

A collaborative study by researchers from the University of Oxford’s Museum of Natural History and Oxford’s Department of Earth Science, alongside experts from Yunnan University in China, has shown that complex animal life developed earlier than previously thought.

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Honorary Degree recipients announced for 2026

The University of Oxford has announced its 2026 honorary degree recipients, with seven individuals to be conferred with degrees at the Encaenia ceremony on 24th June.

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OUSU Council votes for ‘offensive’ mascot

A motion to create an OUSU mascot, a “big bouncing blue blob of bureaucracy” called ‘Ousy’, unexpectedly passed at OUSU Council last Friday, despite...

Merton student hospitalised after assault

A MERTON student was hospitalised after being attacked by a Blues sportsman at last week’s Summer Eights regatta.Ben Holroyd, a fourth year medical student...

Oxford Auteurs

Who are the heroes of Oxford film? Surely Jeremy Irons’ trademark narcissism in Brideshead Revisited must come to mind; perhaps John Thaw’s snobbish coolness...

Flyboys

If you were to walk into Flyboys halfway through, you wouldn’t have missed much. The movie creaks slowly into motion as it explores characters’...

Cuppers Tennis: Review and predictions

The Cuppers competition upto this point has been unpredictable and as we head towards the semi-final stage we can recap on what has happened...

The Blossoming of Maximo Oliveros

The Blossoming of Maximo Oliveros centres on an effeminate young boy (Maximo), living in the slums of Manila in the Philippines with his father...

Trinity overpowered by wild Catz

Catz came into their Cuppers quarter-final fixture against Trinity with a rather weakened side compared to the winning combination that secured Cuppers Victory at...

Ten Canoes

When ten Aboriginal men go off on a fishing trip, it becomes apparent that a young man has taken a fancy to another man’s...

Lunacy (Sileni)

This is not a work of art,” announces Czech surrealist Jan Švankmajer in the prologue to his 2005 film Lunacy. “It is a horror...

The Rules of the Game

What’s love got to do with it? Emma Bernstein on the gurus who would guide you to the perfect pickupYou might expect that the...

Have you met … Paul Arrich?

As we near the end of another Oxford year, I met up with Paul Arrich to look back on his time as Oxide Radio...

Band About Town: The Pagans

More often spotted balancing his cello on the back of a bike, softly-spoken music student Duncan Strachan is lesser known as the front-man of...

Lord Goldsmith

His legal advice greenlighted Britain’s most controversial foreign adventure since Suez. Kate Greasley talks to the attorney general on justifying Iraq He is the man...

Annuals – Be He Me

Ah me, but it’s refreshing to listen to a band with such a varied and distinctive sound. What make this six-piece from Raleigh, North...

Freemasons recruit Oxford students

THE OXFORD University Freemasons’ Lodge is at the centre of a national campaign to recruit undergraduates into the organisation. The 'University Scheme', started by...

Drinks tonight, war tomorrow

Partying, politics and pessimism Laura Pitel goes in search of the young people of LebanonIn most places in the world it might seem distasteful...

Bonde Do Role – With Lasers

“You can’t judge a book by its cover.” But when the book is the new album from Brazilian baile-funk hipsters Bonde Do Role, and...

Tales from the Lodge: St Hugh’s

We Hughsies are a boring lot, or at least so it would seem. When I went down to our lodge last week to get...

Live in the Cathedral

To retain any credibility at all when talking about classical music, here’s a tip: call Rachmaninoff’s second piano concerto “Rach Two”. It’s a bit...

The Irreverence Crusade

I feel like I’ve been on one of those jerking, rattly, helter-skelterish roller-coasters. I’m finding it difficult to coherently fit all the glimpses and...

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