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Amal and George Clooney speak at Oxford’s New Theatre
Amal and George Clooney made an appearance at New Theatre in Oxford as part of the Skoll World Forum annual summit last Friday. The couple discussed their work at...
Bodleian Libraries acquire rare Johann Sebastian Bach Manuscript through Acceptance in Lieu Scheme
The Bodleian Libraries have gained ownership of the autographed manuscript of Johann Sebastian Bach’s...
Zero Emissions Zone lowers air pollution, report shows
With the introduction of the zero emission zone (ZEZ), Oxford city centre has seen...
Oxford University Liberal Democrats set to return
The Oxford University Liberal Democrats (OULD) is set to restart this Trinity term. Their...
Your right to know: Oxford colleges’ responses to FOI requests
Under the Freedom of Information (FOI) Act 2000, members of the public have the...
Justified
Few things in life can be said with certainty. The fact that the majority of people who come out of Oxford will go on...
Bachelors in the art of seduction
We live, it is said, in a city of beautiful buildings and ugly people. We are continually portrayed as lacking passion and social skills,...
The world is no longer a stage
Optimists for the future of British theatre have recently had little tosmile at owing to the plethora of articles by smug Fleet Streetjournalists who...
A case of a lack of ‘art?
What polystyrene is lacking aesthetically it usually makes up for infunctionality and low cost. More commonly known for its kebab-bearing virtues, the lightweight plastic...
The Talking Horse
Long-time childrens’ author Mark Haddon took the bestseller lists by surprise with the success of his last offering, Whitbreadwinning novel The Curious Incident of...
Coffee and broken flowers
Broken Flowersdir Jim Jarmusch4/5Director Jim Jarmusch won the Grand Prix at Cannes 2005 for BrokenFlowers, for which he also wrote the screenplay. Known as...
Sky High
Sky Highdir Mike Mitchell2/5Billed as the American answer to the Harry Potter series, Disney’s SkyHigh has raised expectations in line with its title. It...
The original material girl
The story goes that when Queen Marie-Antoinette was told that the French people were starving through a lack of bread, she flippantly replied, “If...
Student sexually assaulted in Cowley
Police are appealing for witnesses after an Oxford student was sexually assaulted in the early hours of last Thursday. The incident occurred at around...
OUSU VP (Women) position survives referendum threat
A motion to hold a referendum onwhether the OUSU position of Vice-President (Women) should be kept has beenrejected by members of OUSU council. The...
Hilda’s matriculation crashed
Two male students from StCatherine’s gatecrashed St Hilda’s matriculation photoshoot on Saturday, and willappear on one of the photos that will be available for...
Student bags searched as Bod tightens security
Security has been tightenedacross the University following the attacks by animal rights extremists overthe summer. Visitors to the Radcliffe Camera(Rad Cam) now have to...
Merton JCR to appoint anti-welfare officer
An anti-welfare rep is to beelected at Merton after the JCR unanimously passed a motion to institute theposition. A motion was submitted noting that...
Union speech protestors ousted by ‘burly’ officials
The President of Botswana’s visitto the Oxford Union on Friday 14 October was interrupted by 25 protesters fromSurvival International, some of whom were Oxford...
