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Sheldonian Series concludes for academic year with panel on the power of satire

The 2025-2026 Sheldonian Series ended on Wednesday 20th May with a panel discussion on the power, use, and limits of political satire. Held in the Sheldonian Theatre, the event brought together leading figures from British comedy and public commentary to reflect on satire’s role in the current political moment.

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Oxford study warns ‘friendly’ AI chatbots are more likely to mislead users

AI models trained to seem warm and empathetic make significantly more errors, and are far more likely to agree with users even when they're wrong, according to new research published in Nature by Oxford Internet Institute (OII) researchers Lujain Ibrahim and Luc Rocher.

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Oxford SU to hold referendum on NUS membership

At a Conference of Commons Room (CCR) vote concluding on 20th May, JCR and MCR presidents voted to hold a referendum on the Student Union’s (SU) membership of the National Union of Students (NUS).

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Almost 90% of Oxford bike thefts go unsolved

Nearly nine in ten of Oxford’s reported bike thefts were unsolved with no suspect identified, according to data from Thames Valley Police.

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Playboy

“Hefner never believed Playboy was an art magazine”. As surprising revelations go, this is more 32AA than 36DD. Yet this is the introductory eyeopener...

Little Black Book of Stories

Short stories are funny things. I had never read any Byatt before and was, I confess, dubious about reviewing her new collection for the...

Tune ON, Tune IN

Out with the old and in with the new for this year’s TV - or rather, old formats dressed up as new ones. Among...

Varsity future in safe hands

Blues Rugby captain John Allen surveyed the past term and declared “This was the year to become more expansive”. The MMC Trophy may have...

Ex-Pembroke Master writes wrongs

Labour MPs, members of the Opposition, and opponents of topup fees all come in for withering criticism in an ex-Pembroke Master’s recently published treatise...

Baby Blues provide cheer in ruthless first half performance

Oxford U21 22Cambridge U21 0Oxford’s youngsters went some way towards making up for their senior colleagues’ narrow inability to pick up the MMC Trophy...

Czech Mates

Blues footballers enjoyed a tour of Prague as they looked to limber up for the second half of the BUSA season. Arran Yentob’s side...

Pegged back at the last

Oxford 11Cambridge 11In the 72nd minute, Cambridge winger and fresher, Charlie Desmond, lived up to his billing as the “speedster” and “bolter” of the...

Savannah

It's a dangerous situation when dining companions arrive late; when the restaurant offers such a splendid bar, it is simply insulting not to use...

Image

Another New Year, another new term, and with them comes another new trend. Well, you’d think this is the case, but some how, this...

No pain, no Blaine

They tried to dissuade him. Forty-four days without food, and his body would turn to itself for sustenance. Heart palpitations, hallucinations and loss of...

No more plane sailing

It’s never a good idea to let the newspapers make your decisions for you. If you were to believe everything you read in the daily...

Working harder, playing harder

At any one time it is estimated that 0.7% of the world’s population are drunk. In a microcosm such as Oxford this figure, particularly...

Balk at the Wild Side

It seems extremism in all shapes and forms is permeating so many aspects of our lives these days; aside from the everyday worries of...

Shock and Whore

The problem with extreme sex is that I’m not entirely convinced such a thing exists. If anything, it conjures ludicrous images of overweight women...

Violence is not golden

This nefarious exploration of all things savage is a deliberately perverse piece, to such an extent that to grasp either where it’s coming from...

Smashing Entertainment

Bash is a series of three short pieces that show us people who have been pushed over familiar boundaries. Labute’s vision is a bleak...

Court “underestimated” student’s life

The mother of Edmund Sutton, an Oxford student killed in a car crash last year, has expressed her anger and grief after the Cambridge...

Untitled Archive Articles

Left turn Oriel JCR is considering the use of legal force against College bursars. Oriel looks set to take the Estate Bursars Committee to...

Dons call for privatisation

Top college chiefs are pushing the University towards privatisation in a blow to both government tuition-fee plans and the student campaign against top-up fees....

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