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Oxford falls to lowest ever spot in The Times UK University Guide 2027

The University of Oxford has placed fifth in The Times’s 2027 UK university rankings, falling from joint fourth with the University of Cambridge last year. This marks Oxford’s lowest ranking in the guide’s 33 year history and only the second time the University has not been in the top three.
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Protest held outside Town Hall over sale of Council-owned building to St Peter’s

A protest took place today outside Oxford Town Hall against Oxford City Council’s plan to sell 11 New Road to St Peter’s College, which would convert most of the building into student housing.
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Oxford Reform Society registers for Michaelmas

The University of Oxford has a Reform UK society for the first time, after...
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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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Motion in the Ocean

St John’s JCR has decided to buy an island. The “Motion in the Ocean” was passed on Sunday in an attempt to alleviate the...

Queen’s sized Bedrooms

Members of Queen’s College JCR have accused their President of using a provision which ensures tall people do not get attic rooms to fix...

PM Oxford Loner

India’s new Oxford-educated Prime Minister was a “loner” with little charisma, according to his former doctoral supervisor. Manmohan Singh studied economics at Nuffield...

Bus disaster kills boy

An eleven-year-old girl saw her thirteen-year-old brother killed on Monday, when their school bus collided with a tractor. Tomas Ryan-Vig from Bicester, ten miles...

RON Labours to Win

RON has reared his ugly head once again in Oxford JCR elections. Last week, the ubiquitous but eternally silent candidate stormed to victory in...

Crackdown on Euro hooligans’ violence

The Home Office has announced strict new measures in an attempt to curb the violence of England supporters in Euro 2004. A record number...

Thoughts of the week

Undersexed, underpriced and over here. The Silver Ring Thing is the latest import from the States, and I bet it isn’t even really made...

DRINK: Raoul’s Bar

Raoul’s Bar 32 Walton St 01865 553 73 Raoul’s on Walton Street has an astounding selection of cocktails. I have never been so...

EAT: Luna Caprese

Luna Caprese 4 North Parade (01865) 554 812 I have always thought it one of the most elusive and charming of mysteries that,...

All the trimmings

You’re probably wondering why, in the month of May, I’m talking to you about the sort of accessories you’d normally associate with winter. Before...

Who’s that girl?

Amélie Nothomb dresses entirely in black and gets up everyday at four in the morning to drink vinegar and write novels. So goes the...

Pride, prejudiced

Ten years after the legalisation of homosexuality, Lithuania still rates among the least tolerant of it in Europe. According to a survey by the...

Bored this summer? Try… Bicester Village

Like reading Vogue? Shop for clothes at GAP and Next although you’d prefer to wear Karen Millen outfits? Sounds like massive desire suppression to...

Euro Vision

We are forever told, through government initiatives, race equality organisations and indeed much mainstream liberal media, that an acceptance of ethnic and cultural diversity...

Ex-Pat-Riotism

Racism is a word that gets bandied about a lot nowadays. And with good reason. It seems as though, despite years of PR about...

Being Jordan – Katie Price

Nowadays, the innocent appreciation of the breast is a limited practice at best, excluded from popular culture and forcefully confined to pervy Scouse readers...

Chatting Up…Tony Hadley

When you are on tour do you have any bizarre backstage/ dressing room requests or superstitions that you’d like to tell us about? I...

Mamet’s mammoth masterpiece

American Buffalo @ OFS Arrogance is prolific in the thespian world of Oxford, in both character and production. Though in productions of real quality...

The Wind in the Willows

Pimms, punting and plays – what more could you ask for from summertime in Oxford? This year’s Trinity Lawns Play combines children’s classic and...

Stitching

Stitching challenges the selfishness which lies at the core of its young couple. At the same time, it creates empathy which makes its occasional...
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