Wednesday 10th September 2025

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Your Party society launched as ‘union of the left’ at Oxford

A new political society promising to “facilitate the discussion of left-wing ideas” has been formed at Oxford University. Your Party Society, inspired by Jeremy Corbyn and Zarah Sultana’s alliance, was...

Oxford colleges take Aviva to High Court in COVID-19 insurance case

Twenty-nine Oxford colleges have launched High Court proceedings against insurance firm Aviva. The case,...

Oxford Union sued for editing Susan Abulhawa’s speech

The European Legal Support Center (ELSC) has filed a discrimination claim against the Oxford...

Protests outside Oxford asylum hotel as campaigners call for unity and compassion

Around 50 protesters from Stand Up to Racism (SUTR) and other local groups gathered...

Eat

Ben Coffer gorges on piesTHE BE-MULLETED eighties pop duo Tears For Fears were wrong about so much, yet in one respect they were right...

The sensitive iconographer

Fifty years after Satyajit Ray’s monumental debut ‘Pather Panchali’ stunned critics and enthralled audiences at home and abroad, Somak Ghoshal examines the legacy of...

Inquest reopened into rower’s death

A second inquest has been opened into the death of Leo Blockley, a member of Oxford University Lightweight Rowing Club who drowned in the...

The plummy voice of NY

Plum Sykes, socialite editor and novelist, entertains Josh Spero with stories of Bergdorf Blondes and American VogueConsidered from afar, Plum Sykes is an imposing...

MP supports Azim in Oxford

St John’s first year Engineer Azim Ansari continues to remain in the country, despite the expiration of his official deadline for voluntary return to...

Mourning Jean Paul II

Remembering his ten hours queueing in the Vatican City, Mark Cooper describes his pilgrimage to Rome to honour the late Pope, John Paul II....

Touched by Fire – BT Late

This intriguing drama deals with a theme which has never been more relevant to society, exploring as it does the nature of terrorism. Inspired...

British Sea Power Live

British Sea Power landed on a stage festooned with foliage and an assortment of plastic birds. The fresh-faced five have cultivated a country-life chic...

Drink: Browns

Browns 5 - 11 Woodstock Road 01865 319655 The bar in Browns may not immediately leap to mind as the ideal student hangout –...

‘We won’t win the war’

MI5 boss tells LMH students the Iraq-damaged ’War on Terror’ cannot be won The Director General of the Security Services (MI5) returned to her...

Bare-faced cheek of thief at Regent’s

A member of Regent’s Park kitchen staff had her belongings stolen during a bizarre incident at dinner on Tuesday evening. The man who made...

The grudge match: OUSU vs Oriel

OUSU, ever the whipping boy of right wing colleges, got one in the eye this week as it found itself sabotaged from within. No...

Illegal opportunities for student voters

Yesterday’s local and European elections were shrouded in controversy across the country as the postal vote system was lambasted from all sides and arrests...

Colleges force final chapter

Two central Oxford bookshops are set to close this year, because of ever increasing rent rises from the “utterly ruthless” colleges which own the...

Six hundred lawyers cunted

A New College student has been called up for a disciplinary hearing, after he ‘replied-all’ to the Law Soc mailing-list with a single abusive...

OUSU support Stu Two

OUSU will be debating an emergency motion today in support of the two OxStu journalists who are facing a Court of Summary Jurisdiction for...

Firefight closure may soon strike Bod

Firefighters in Oxford are recommending a ballot for industrial action at their conference on 15 June. Any industrial action is likely to cause disurption...

Massacre at Barbecue

The quiet of the small South Oxfordshire village of Henley was ripped apart this week as a father started shooting members of his family...

Ecstatic Strangler

A man is in court for strangling his fiancée to death in an Oxford hotel last year. He claims both he and his fiancée...

Five year olds care for druggies

Large numbers of Oxford children, some as young as five, are forced to care for their alcoholic and drugabusing parents, according to figures recently...

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