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Oxford graduates step over protesters during pro-Palestine ‘die-in’
Around 30 protesters staged a ‘die-in’ outside the Sheldonian Theatre and Bodleian Library Saturday morning during graduations. The demonstration comes after the University released an official statement which one...
Debate at Oxford’s Pharos Foundation votes for keeping Elgin Marbles
A debate event, “Losing Your Marbles”, held on 2nd May by an Oxford research...
Pro-Palestine protests continue after Vice Chancellor’s statement
Over 600 gathered in front of the Clarendon Building on 16 May for a...
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...
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...
