Thursday 11th December 2025

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Reuben College fire prompts university-wide warnings on student safety

Several Oxford colleges have issued fire safety advice following a serious fire at Reuben College accommodation last week. The fire, which broke out in Reuben’s graduate accommodation at Farndon...

Oxfordshire health equality lab appoints first Chief Scientific Advisers

Oxfordshire’s Local Policy Lab has announced the appointment of its first Chief Scientific Advisers...

Corpus Christi modernises 16th century library with new building

Oxford University’s Chancellor Lord William Hague has officially opened the Spencer Building, the first...

Oxford University accused of ‘institutional censorship’ over reporting restrictions

Over 20 academics have criticised the University of Oxford for its use of reporting...

Women’s alliance

by Jonathan Bailey A petition has been started to save Oxford’s last remaining women-only college. Worried by debate on the governing body of St...

50% of students directionless

by Joanna Lee Morrison New research has revealed that over 50% of first year university students have no clear plans for future employment. The...

Clint Eastwood

by Timothy RileyUnion members were thrilled last Thursday at the chance to see one of Hollywood’s “living legends,” when Clint Eastwood appeared in front...

Dictionary gets ‘sexed-up’

by Mark Bedford In a new Oxford mini- dictionary released this week one of the most controversial expressions of 2003 has made its first...

A disorientating dialogue

Candice Breitz: Re-animations Candice Breitz’s installation, ‘Double Karen’ consists of two televisions facing each other in a stairway, one in front of you, the...

Dark Star Safari – Paul Theroux

In a recently published essay, Theroux states that he eschews cameras and travel snaps. A bold claim, but his descriptive prose in Dark Star...

In the footsteps of the Revolution

NATALIE TOMS visits the lefty student haven of cigars, Che and communist charm The silence is getting quite embarrassing. I don’t realise at first...

Preaching to the next generation

Wyclef Jean talks to WILLEM MARX about the music, the money and the messages behind his new album Wyclef was on stage, running through...

Short, sharp shock

Rowena Mason meets up with Clare Short before her Union address to discuss her views on Tony’s war Clare Short has always been audaciously...

Who are we?

KHURUM BUKHARI examines Oxford’s diasporas and questions of identity within the UniversityIn the 12th century, the Hebrew poet Yehuda Halevi wrote “While I in...

Say yes to Europe

Europe Playhouse Tuesday 21 – Saturday 25 October Ilan Goodman’s production of David Greig’s Europe asks the question “What is politics?”. At the same...

Also on stage…

Shakespeare’s Philoctetes Burton Taylor Tuesday 21 – Saturday 25 October The blending of plays from such opposing poles of theatre as Greek tragedy and...

Chatting up…Jamelia

What are you up to at the moment? I’m currently being mobbed by fans in a shopping centre! But apart from that, I’m touring...

Also happening…

Last chance to see Heroic Nakedness featuring a selection of male nude studies from the permanent collection at Christ Church picture gallery. Could be...

Sexy slaughterhouse chic

KILL BILL VOLUME 1Odeon George StreetFriday 17 – Thursday 23 October Quentin Tarantino, the undisputed “daddy” of retro-cool, has made a blistering return to...

Mystic River

OdeonFriday 17 – Thursday 23 October In Eastwood’s latest directorial outing, a child playing with two friends is abducted but subsequently escapes. A few...

Cabin Fever

OdeonFriday 17 – Thursday 23 October Cabin Fever is a welcome return to the format of the much loved traditional horror movie. The story...

Spellbound

OdeonFriday 17 – Thursday 23 October Thirteen year olds spelling excessively long words is not standard material for an edge of your seat thriller,...

The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen

OdeonFriday 17 – Thursday 23 October 1899. The world is on the brink of war as a villain calling himself Phantom reaps doom and...

Albums: Siobhan Donaghy, Revolution In Me

Despite the release of two singles ‘Overrated’ and ‘Twist Of Fate’ (both included here), Ms Donaghy is probably still best known as the Sugababe...

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