Wednesday 29th October 2025

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Merton updates welfare provisions despite lack of student consultation

Merton College has overhauled its welfare programme this academic year, reducing the hours of Junior Deans for Welfare, discontinuing the Associate Chaplain’s book club, and replacing the famous “welfare...

Cowley Branch Line to reopen, reducing travel time to London

The Cowley Branch train line between the Oxford Rail Station and London Marylebone is...

Famous pub frequented by Tolkien set for refurbishment

New plans have been unveiled by the Ellison Institute of Technology (EIT) for the...

World Anti-Corruption Conference takes place in Oxford

The 2025 World Anti-Corruption Conference (WACC) took place in Oxford for the first time...

Stock Exchange

Oxford Students have begun to participate in Cambridge University’s new game, “bumpsdaq” – an online fantasy stock exchange based on the crews rowing in...

Royal Pretender to Address Union

The Oxford Union may face awkward questions on Sunday after advertising its speaker as ‘The Crown Prince of Burma’ although neither the country nor...

Sexy Christians

In what has been breathlessly described as ‘the most exciting Christian Union meeting in the world ever’, the Cambridge CU has introduced the ‘Sex,...

Essex Bunnies

Due to a particularly slow news week, the Essex Rabbit set out to tackle the burning issue: ‘Is Essex an ugly University?’ 77% of...

Food Riots

A criminal investigation is underway at the Glenbrook campus after five students were injured in an annual initiation ritual; one with a broken wrist,...

Is Medieval History Bunk?

I don’t mind there being some medievalists around for ornamental purposes, but there is reason for the State to pay for them.” These comments,...

Watch all the Clocks

The passing of time has always been a fascinating and troubling notion for mankind, and the thought of somehow ‘caging the minute’, to borrow...

Truth is a Fish

Truthis a fish. So speaks the hero of Gould’s Book of Fish: A Novel in Twelve Fish (Atlantic Books, £7.99) by Richard Flanagan, a...

Living the High Life

Smalltown America is not a pretty sight. For the most part the towns are modern yet faded and characterless with minimal allure, unless of...

Three Goats Heads

The Three Goat’s Heads is the kind of pub that you only get in city centres. First impressions are that it is a joyless,...

Food

I’m in Oxford’s stuffiest taxi shouting apologies into my mobile. The driver is plodding along smoking interminable cigarillos, insisting on the windows being up,...

Undergraduates Anonymous

Everyone has an addiction. There are little things that if we didn’t do everyday, would leave us with an uncomfortable feeling, a withdrawal symptom...

Secrets of the Sisterhood

Walking down a central street at my university in America, I approach a confused looking tourist and her daughter. Asking if they need directions,...

Antwone’s Fishing for Compliments

With an Oscar for Training Day behind him, Denzil Washington clearly decided a new challenge was in order. Antwone Fisher, which sees the veteran...

The Bore Witch Project

The tagline for Darkness Falls insists “Every Legend Has Its Dark Side”. Similarly, every reviewer has a dark side, and this film has revealed...

Sprung a Leak

Although Hope Springs doesn’t deserve the slating it has been given in the national media, chick flick afficionados will leave disappointed. Its biggest downfall...

Stereophonics

Everyone has an object of hatred. I remember working at a Virgin Megastore when J.E.E.P and ‘Have a Nice Day’ were being released. Maybe...

Singles Plural

Less Than Jake must be dead old by now, but they remain capable of making solid ska-rock. ‘She’s Gonna Break Soon’ is a strong...

Manson’s Arms

Ever since Marilyn Manson donned Aladdin Sane-style hair and make-up for the cover of Mechanical Animals, the world has suspected that wanted to be...

Clearlake District

Openers Six Ray Sun had to contend with a handful of people wishing they were in the real sun, yet hammered out their usual...

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