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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...
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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."
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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.
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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.
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Trinity employs aide to royal houselhold

The former Master of the Household for the Prince of Wales and the Duchess of Cornwall has been appointed by Trinity as its new...

Hilda’s mixed vote

The St Hilda’s JCR has passed a motion to hold a referendum on the issue of the college remaining single sex. The motion passed...

Mistaken identity

The fast train from Paddington allows those not fortunate enough to inhabit our world to get close enough to peer in. They ingest voraciously...

Charitable superpowers get it wrong

Jeffery Sachs, who spoke at the  Oxford Union on Sunday, is the intellectual guru of the ‘Drop the Debt’ campaign and the world’s most...

A very ordinary occupation

On nights spent lounging on the balcony with Maher and Nisreen, sippingon mint tea, drawing apple-infused smoke through the nargila andexchanging conversation – partly...

Obituary of the phone box

ANYONE WHO has ever run out of mobile phone battery at a crucial point in conversation will be aware of the latter day scarcity...

What were Booker judges thinking?

How much a judge of true talent is the Booker prize? Last Monday’sshock triumph of John Banville over Kazuo Ishiguro, Julian Barnes andthe Smiths...

Mystery of the Orient

The Mystery of Empty SpaceAshmolean Museumuntil 16 OctoberThe twentieth century has not been kind to traditional Chinese painting. Its place usurped by the revolutionary...

They’re at it like Were-rabbits

Wallace and Gromit: the Curse of the Were-rabbitCreator Nick Park’s lovable duo hop onto the silver screen this week in their first full-length feature,...

Kinky Boots review

Kinky BootsFor all the complaints about the semi-ghettoisation of British cinema, it often appears closer to its American mainstream counterparts, using the same emotional...

We are reviewing the situation

Theatre criticism, unsurprisingly, offends pretty much everyone involved. The journalist who dares hint at any form of negative opinion is condemned for being narrow-minded...

Poetry slam

Hammer and Tongue, 4 October, The Zodiac: Eddie Izzard told me I should do stand-up”, says Steve Larkin, an Oxford-based performance poet and the...

American pervert

Sexual Perversity in Chicago, 18 to 22 October, Burton Theatre: Mamet doesn’t do unusual. This is normality sped up, with young people loathing each...

Review

Boston Marriage, 18 to 22 October, Burton Taylor: As a playwright noted for his modern masculine writing, Edward Mamet changes direction in Boston Marriage...

Modern age musicians

Recent times have seen seismic movement in the music industry. Mergers, job losses, reductions in artist numbers all point to a fundamental failure in...

Editors

The Zodiac8 October4/5Non-stop is certainly a word that could be used to describe the lifestyle of this team of four from the Midlands. Having...

All brains no brawn

With Love and SqualorWe are Scientistsout 17 October2/5Do not be surprised if by the end of the noughties music critics suggest that the greatest...

Maths goes digital

A digital edition of the oldest surviving manuscript of Euclid’s Elements, the founding document of Mathematics, will now be available to the public on...

Bop bashing

St Edmund Hall have launched an investigation after an attempt made to kick down the Junior Dean’s door following the college bop on Saturday...

Civil resistance research

Oxford has received three grants to fund research into the influences and effects of civil resistance movements of the 20th century. The project is...
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