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Pro-Palestine protests continue after Vice Chancellor’s statement
Over 600 gathered in front of the Clarendon Building on 16 May for a rally organised by healthcare workers and Oxford Action for Palestine students. Speakers discussed media co-optation...
Oxford research finds AI chatbots cannot provide information about latest news stories
Latest research from the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism (RISJ) has shown...
University statement on Palestine Solidarity encampment affirms right to protest, outlines investment policy
The University today released an official response to the pro-Palestine encampment organised by Oxford...
Oxford Vice-Chancellor attends Downing Street meeting to ‘protect Jewish students’
On Thursday 9th May, university leaders, including Oxford University’s Vice-Chancellor, Irene Tracey, met with...
MI5 warns Oxford University of security threat
In a recent briefing, MI5 has warned that foreign states are targeting UK universities,...
Lion population close to collapse
An Oxford professor has suggested that Africa’s lion population is in danger of collapse, after a four-year study in Zimbabwe and Botswana. Research lead...
Funding needed for Nobel success
A former Oxford Classics student has been awarded the 2003 Nobel Prize for Physics for his work outside of the UK, contributing to Oxford-based...
Buskers code
Oxford buskers will be forced to face the music if a council code of conduct restricting their performance is ratified this week. A 13-point...
Freshers’ Flu
From the sound of coughing in the lecture hall to a week of drowsy mornings accompanied with a box of tissues, few of you...
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...
