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Oxford Reform society president accused of antisemitism over 2024 article

The President of Oxon Universities' Reform Society (OURS) and a former Reform UK council candidate, Vittorio Cuneo-Flood, wrote that Satan “sow[s] confusion and spread[s] perplexity” through “the false notion of ‘Anti-Semitism’” in a 2024 article for a Christian newsletter, in writings uncovered by Stand Up to Racism.

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‘Far-right’ Oxfordshire Patriots’ march opposed by larger Stand Up To Racism counter-protest

The Stand Up To Racism counter-protest, made up of around 50 people, met the Oxfordshire Patriots protests, made up of about 13 people, at Carfax Tower. From Cornmarket Street, they followed the Patriots down St Aldate's Street, Speedwell Street, and round Westgate, ending at Bonn Square. At Bonn Square, the rival protesters faced off around the war memorial, chanting back and forth at each other.

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‘I gave them good material’: Hunter Biden on addiction and US politics at OxSpeaks

Son of former US President Joe Biden, Hunter Biden, spoke to Oxford students at...

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Oxford Union votes to remain in the ECHR

The Oxford Union rejected the motion ‘The UK Should Withdraw From The ECHR’, following ongoing calls for Britain to leave, with the most significant political declaration coming from Conservative Party Leader Kemi Badenoch.

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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...

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...

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