Saturday 21st March 2026

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‘Emergency Brake’ on student visas leaves Oxford students facing uncertainty

Students at the University of Oxford are facing uncertainty after the UK government imposed an “emergency brake” on new study visas for nationals of Afghanistan, Cameroon, Myanmar, and Sudan.

Significant Arabic manuscript collection donated to St John’s College Library

St John’s College Library has received a significant donation of Arabic-script manuscripts.

Reported sexual misconduct at Oxford University Hospitals lead to six dismissals

CW: Sexual harassment New data reveals that six staff members at Oxford University Hospitals NHS...

Oxford and Liverpool universities join forces in landmark partnership

The University of Oxford has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the University of Liverpool, Oxfordshire County Council, and the Liverpool City Region Combined Authority.

University of Life

A new book claims that life expectancy is linked to education: the longer you spend learning, the longer life you will have. Sir...

Charity runners and riders

Three thousand women from Oxford took part in a charity race to aid the struggle against cancer last Sunday. The organisers hope that £180,000...

Live ChCh Cartridges

34 live shotgun cartridges were found abandoned in a green Nike bag in Christ Church Meadows last Friday. The cartridges were found by...

Mansfield Smokes On

Members of Mansfield College JCR have voted to continue to allow students to smoke in the college bar. Passions were raised amid divided...

DRINK: Hollywood Cocktails

Hollywood Cocktails 124 Walton St (01865) 511 668 As you come to the end of the Jericho “bar crawl” from the north of...

EAT: The White Hart

The White Hart Wytham (01865) 244372 The White Hart is set in Wytham, (a treesy hamlet just past Godstow), and has recently been...

Kepp Cool, Look Hot

Whatever you’re doing this summer, whether it’s strolling down the Champs Elysées, hitching a lift in the back of a chicken truck through Jordan,...

Sinners, repent!

The piazza was crawling with women. I would have felt like a kid in a candy store, had they not all been wearing habits....

Bored this summer? Try… Pimms and Punting

Everyone talks about how wonderful Pimm’s and punting are – you practically hear nothing else during Michaelmas and Hilary, and when Trinity comes round,...

Paul’s World

As Britain’s greatest fashion export, Paul Smith is remarkably modest. “Frankly,” he says, “I’m not exceptional at design. I’m medium.” This comes from the...

Paintbrushes and Pineapples

In the summer of 2003, a group of five first-year students from Somerville travelled to Ghana in West Africa. They had planned to meet...

Heading back Home

"So, do you have any exams?”Almost every day for the past few weeks I have been confronted with this question, and the response is...

Chatting Up… The Delays

What image are you trying to put across and how would you describe yourselves? Whilst we say that we have an “uncool” style, the...

The Gospel according to Berkoff

Stephen Berkoff’s Messiah: Scenes from a Crucifixion claims to be outré, obscene and blasphemous, which at times it certainly is. Lines like Jesus’s “Whatever...

Amy’s View – BT

There is no beginning, no end. As the audience enter, the actors are already on stage and it’s up to us to work out...

Much Ado Abouot Nothing

Continuing the theatrical trend for all things al fresco this term, Creation Theatre Company have returned to Headington Hill Park with the chaotic comedy...

Something adolescent this way comes

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban Ozone and Odeon Wands out! Harry is back, older, angrier and with better special effects...

I’ll Sleep When I’m Dead

Like Mike Hodges’ best-known film, the 1971 thriller Get Carter, I’ll Sleep When I’m Dead’s central premise sees a man out to avenge his...

Bon Voyage

The charm of Jean-Paul Rappeneau’s Bon Voyageis that it doesn’t take itself too seriously. For many years now, French filmmakers have been drawn to...

Timeless Rock Classic?

The Datsuns Outta Sight/Outta Mind The brazen simplicity of The Datsuns’ self-titled first album (2002) seemed cleverly-timed. Not being modish, knowing or subtle made...

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