Monday 8th June 2026

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Oxford City Council announces new cabinet for 2026/27

Oxford City Council leader Susan Brown has announced her new cabinet for the 2026/2027 year. Brown, who also leads the Labour group on the Council, has appointed seven Labour councillors to the cabinet following local elections on 7th May in which Labour lost its overall majority but remained the largest party on the Council.

Prime Minister of Sri Lanka delivers annual lecture at Oxford School of Global and Area Studies

Prime Minister of Sri Lanka, Dr Harini Amarasuriya, delivered the Oxford School of Global and Area Studies (OGSA) Annual Lecture at St. Antony’s College on 19th May.

Oxford researchers collaborate to release open data to accelerate AI drug discovery

University of Oxford researchers have released a new open data set and AI model to accelerate drug discovery.

Rare Oxford University photo of Oscar Wilde sells at auction

A newly-discovered photograph of Oscar Wilde at the University of Oxford was recently sold for more than £5,300 at an auction.  

This is our Youth

Transported from New York to London, this play depicts the troubled lives of three youths of the 1980s: Warren (Ferdie Addis) and Dennis (Angus...

Ambition, lies, and (good) fake photos

Don’t believe everything you read in the papers, the old adage goes. Or, if it appeared in the hugely influential American politics mag The...

Bad Education

Bad Education @ Phoenix Pedro Almodóvar’s latest film on sex, religion, and abuse is unlike anything you will see in the coming months. In...

The Saddest Music in the World

First things first: don’t let the title deceive you. This may be a movie about melancholia, but it’s also an absolute riot; hugely inventive...

In Need of Divine Aid

Faithless No Roots Out 7 June Before we start, there’s something I have to share: Maxi Jazz does something to me. And no, this...

Live: Kathryn Williams @ The Zodiac

Reviewers have described Kathryn Williams voice as ‘delicate’ and ‘ethereal’; physically she is much more corporeal. This was just one of the anomalies that...

Jesse Malin: The Heat

Ryan Adams does get around. In addition to his four solo albums in three years, Adams is also responsible for a tongue-incheek, punk-thrash album...

The Futureheads: Self-titled

Before reaching for the play button on your stereo, you would be correct in thinking you are about to listen to an understated, ‘lets-just-give-it-ago-...

Village PErson: Singing Persian Brides

A split watermelon. Ripe and bursting, its seeds spilling out of its flesh. Women singing, talking, sifting rice. A wedding has passed, another is...

Begdorf Blondes – Plum Sykes

If you scorn fashion and designer names, disdain the Bridge on a Thursday night, and prefer Marks and Spenser’s to Harrods, avoid this book...

Cambridge stunned in Parks

Oxford emerged from the dressing room after tea on day two in the knowledge that their first innings had already won the match and...

Oriel begin Summer Eights with sweet revenge

Wednesday’s Rowing by Elaina Evans After controversy over entries and a very tough rowing-on contest last Friday, it was a relief to see Summer...

LMH’s Churchillian effort clinches match

Cuppers Tennis LMH 7 - 5 St Johns LMH’s second pair of Rob Churchill and Mark Holmquist held their nerve in a crucial tiebreak...

Hertford not ready to Exet

Sexy football was the order of the day at the third round of the Cuppers 5-a-side football last Thursday this round was definitely less...

Oriel flirts with OUSU’s pants

Oriel students went to the polls yesterday to decide whether or not to re-affiliate to OUSU after three years outside the student union. ...

Rents and RONs stir JCRs to act

In the recent Wadham SU presidential elections, students voted to reopen nominations rather than elect those standing for election. No ostensible reasons for this...

Skanky food sees Chinese fined

An Oxford restaurant has been fined £17,000 for the filthy conditions in which its food was prepared. The Liasion Chinese Restaurant in Castle...

Fire alarms inflame finalists

Angry finalists forced Lincoln College to change the time of the fire drills this week, after discovering that they were planned for 8.50am, half-an-hour...

Flesh eating sex pest

A plastic surgeon has been accused of “serious professional misconduct” this week, after beginning a sexual relationship with one of his patients he was...

Undebatably fashionable

Scantily dressed men and women strutted down the catwalk at the Union last Friday. The hallowed Debating Chamber, filled to capacity with 350 onlookers,...

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