Wednesday 11th June 2025

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JCRs launch ‘Safe Celebrators’ welfare scheme for post-exam celebrations

A new student-led peer support initiative was launched this week by Brasenose College and St Catherine’s College JCRs. The pilot scheme, Safe Celebrators, provides bystander support to students during...
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Oxford Union presidential candidate investigated by police over WhatsApp ‘smear campaign’ allegations

Oxford Union Treasurer and presidential candidate Rosalie Chapman was identified by police as the...
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Queen’s and Hilda’s students run 200km for motor neurone disease

Three Oxford University students completed four ultramarathons for charity last week: Thomas Milton (St...
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Oxford Union believes no one can be illegal on stolen land

Last night the Oxford Union passed the motion “This House believes that no one...
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Beaver Porn

Police are investigating claims that a porn film was shot in a hall of residence, after the janitor reported seeing camera crews and naked...

Richest Student

Gunn-Britt Marklund was checking her bank balance over the internet to see whether her loan had come through, when she discovered a clerical error...

Going Back to the Classics

This week visual arts in Oxford was nowhere near boiling-point. The new exhibitions in the Ashmolean such as Spectacular Impressions and An Englishman’s Travels...

John Evelyn

It came as some surprise to Evelyn to learn this week that a stalwart of good manners and solid behaviour, Union Treasurer Huw ‘Hugsy’...

On the Town

I’m on the town every night. If you see me, wave. I’ll be at the back, fast-forwarding through a cheap imported Mexican video showing...

Three is a Magic Number

In Martin Amis’ autobiography Experience, Dad Kingsley (for it is he) memorably describes Terminator 2 as a “flawless masterpiece.” With accolades like that from...

The Forgotten Paradise

It was a moonless night in early September in the Atlantic Rainforest of Brazil. I had spent the last two days on crowded but...

Pub: The Grapes, George Street

Most of the really great pubs in Oxford are something of a hike from the centre of town, but The Grapes is a gem...

Food Ma Belle

Entertaining one’s grandparents is always tricky. So much must be borne in mind: will the place serve sherry at Granny’s preferred lukewarm temperature? Can...

Peter Harness and the ‘cunningly structured’ Mongoose

Peter Harness isn’t brooding. He doesn’t have furious, intense eyes and he smiles a lot. I mention this because the Harness I have in...

Word on the Street

Eva, 26, sells the Big Issue on Broad Street and lives in a tent just outside Oxford.“I come from the south of Spain and...

X Marks the Spot a Second Time

The ‘X-Men’ comic books and cartoon series have attracted a fierce loyalty from fans since its genesis in the 60s. The first X-Men was...

Clooney’s Big Clanger

Welcome to Collinwood is to Ocean’s Eleven what Danni Minogue is to Kylie: a less fashionable little sister. Sharing producers (George Clooney and Steve...

Fine and Dandy

The Dandy Warhols are a band emblematic of student cynic chic: their we-take-drugs lyrics on Thirteen Tales of Urban Bohemia evoked a supremely stylish...

International Rescue

The New Noakes International, fronted by Pete Oxley, played the Wheatsheaf to promote their latest album Blue In Black and White. New Noakes comprise...

Nightmares on Wax

The successor to the Another Late Night series, Late Night Tales continues the tradition of getting artists to choose and mix the music that...

Cinerama

David Gedge’s career is founded on his love of John Peel. Gedge is one of those people who obsessively records the festive fifty every...

It’s Love at First Science

Despite knowing that this production was being revived after rave reviews and a sell-out run, I was slightly puzzled as to how physics could...

Right to Pointillism

As a self-confessed art philistine, I look Georges Seurat’s nineteenth century pointillist painting Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte and see...

A Midsummer Night’s Scream

With just six actors and a five-person crew, the idea of staging any Shakespearean drama with so few people can only be described as...
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