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Cowley cinema nominated for top award amidst campaign for survival against Oriel

The Ultimate Picture Palace (UPP), Oxford’s only independent cinema, has been shortlisted for Cinema of the Year at the British Independent Film Awards (BIFA).  Nominated by the British Independent Film Awards, the cinema on Cowley Road, is one of five...
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Why the US midterms matter

Troy Ware -
How could the outcome of the US midterm elections ever affect an Oxford student? Well, the elections might affect the cost of your next...

The Vinted paradox: Consuming our way out of overconsumption

There are few pleasures quite like finding a jumper that sells for £70 new listed for £14, “worn twice” by someone in Leeds. It...
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Can students still afford to choose?

There’s much about the experience of studying at Oxford that makes it truly unique compared to other universities. There’s the almost millennium-old tradition of...
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I no longer want to be an astronaut

Just last week, OpenAI dropped 372 papers covering various well-known unsolved problems in mathematics and computer science. As someone in the unfortunate position of soon applying for a PhD in maths, it seems to be harder than ever to get one’s foot in the door. How can I, a bright-eyed but inexperienced undergraduate, compete with thousands of machines trawling through the sum of all human knowledge in parallel?
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Debate chamber: Are Oxford’s political party societies fit for purpose?

Ti-Jean Martin and Elizabeth Millett -
Oxford’s political party societies have a dual reputation. On one side of the coin, many boast long-standing histories and influential alumni, from Clement Attlee to David Cameron. Flip to the tail end, and you find a termly reality of boisterous drinking socials and inconclusive debates that are, in the words of Cherwell’s Stanley Smith, “more fixated with personality than party”. But does this reputation really disrupt the confines of what these political party societies are made for?

Features

Oxford’s obsession with being busy is pretty performative, right?

Finbar Dinnen -
At Oxford, it seems like we get used to talking about our lives as nothing more than a summary of the things we’ve accomplished lately, or at least are just about to. The longer your list, the better you must be doing, because to be busy is to be making the absolute most of your time here – and who doesn’t want to be doing that?

No Greek life doesn’t mean no rape culture

Ruya Oral -
Perhaps the most effective tool we have at our disposal against casual sexism is casual feminism.

All work and no pay: Why Oxford students aren’t allowed to have jobs

Emma Heagney -
Strangely enough, however, the ‘vac’ is also the only opportunity for an Oxford student to work, not through problem sheets and essays, but in the most fundamental sense of the word.

What the UK can learn from threats to Canadian student journalism

Emma Heagney -
The perseverance of The Concordian and The Tribune in the face of Bill C-18 demonstrates just how impactful institutional support can be, not least for allowing these student journalists to believe that their work is worth fighting for.

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Culture

Culture

One f**king thing after another: ‘The History Boys’, revisited

Saul Grenfell -
Grab your motorcycle helmet. Sharpen...
Art

What are you looking at? A reflection on the Ashmolean’s Aphrodite exhibition 

The woman crouches, nude. A gauzy blue curtain hangs where she hides her chest; behind it I can just see the other artefacts. She isn’t looking at me. Over...
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Books

The midterms and the YA novel: Impossibly happy endings

Given its intense media coverage and everything that seems to be on the line, I feel as though I have been anxiously awaiting the results of the 2026 US midterm elections for weeks, months – maybe years.
Ruya Oral -
Books

How books are burned today

It is a worrying thought that what sits on your bookshelf today could be out of reach tomorrow. You might believe book banning to be a thing of the...
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Lifestyle

Realisations of a country girl in Oxford

Amy Cartlidge -
Where before my choices were limited to my room, the garden, or a footpath, there are now countless places to explore.

Sport

Sport Spotlight: Robin Munday

Freddie Lewis-Hedley -
When I sit down to interview second-year Ancient and Modern History student Robin Munday, he happens to be wearing his Swiss Glacier Pistol Club fleece.

A sport inspired by Harry Potter has come into its own

Gavriella Epstein-Lightman -
It isn’t often that fiction becomes reality. But that is exactly what has happened to Quidditch, now named Quadball.

The insidious advertising of women in sport

Ava Doherty -
All advertising sells a dream, Mad Men style: the aftershave, the sports car. Here the dream is sport itself, betting on it, and the opportunities it gives you.

Sport Spotlight: Sam Fitzgerald

Gavriella Epstein-Lightman -
Sam Fitzgerald only took up cycling during his undergraduate degree, and yet he’s now President of Oxford University Cycling Club.