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New College JCR President loses no-confidence motion four weeks before end of term

President of New College JCR Harry Aldridge was removed from office late last night in a motion of no-confidence.
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Opinion

Oxford is not an aesthetic

Elizabeth Millett -
My social media algorithm has successfully tracked my profile closely enough to have figured out where I study. To my regret. For every now...

Oxford’s Career Connect is failing northern students

The north-south divide is alive and well at Oxford’s railway station at the end of term. While students heading south crowd the opposite platform,...
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The Oxford Union has a far-right problem

The Oxford Union has regularly been the subject of public outrage. From the 1933 ‘King and Country’ debate, upon which the Union, now, regularly...
Arun Lewis -

Oxford needs a women’s college

Naturally, I loathe to say that Cambridge does anything better than Oxford, but I can’t deny that there is one thing I will always...
Lucy Pollock -

What are children really learning from their screens?

Saba Ahmadzadeh Noughani -
Today, when compared to my own childhood, screens dominate children's lives more than ever, and it seems to me that the screens they are...

Features

24/7: College porters and the Oxford night shift

Jiayue Shi -
For many, the night lodge exists as a background certainty, noticed chiefly in moments of crisis, vulnerability, or inconvenience.

Raising refugee rights: Oxford STAR and Campsfield House

Mary Huan -
“The Coalition and STAR are quite unique in the emphasis on trying to bridge the gap between students and the community”.

‘It happens here and it’s our responsibility to stop it’: Oxford’s anti-sexual violence campaign

Beatrix Arnold -
For the co-presidents of It Happens Here, Aparna and Maddie, literacy about consent and sexual violence is needed now more than ever.

A plate for everyone: Food restrictions at formals

Sophia Yvonne Hall -
Recently, I found myself curious about the behind-the-scenes process: how colleges receive dietary information, where and how it travels, and what care is taken to ensure that, by the time a plate lands in front of you, it is the right one.

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Culture

Books

Barker & Co. Booksellers: Oxford’s newest independent bookshop

Ben O'Brien -
A new secondhand bookstore opened in Oxford city centre last week. Located in the Golden Cross shopping centre, just off Cornmarket Street, the bookstore stocks hundreds of secondhand books, ranging from accessibly priced paperbacks to rare and expensive antiquarian first-editions.
Culture

‘The Importance of Being Earnest’ in review

The Harris Manchester Players immersed Oxford’s inhabitants in the delightful world of Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest this May.
Elizabeth Bourn -
Culture

Inarticulacy in part and in whole: ‘Father Mother Sister Brother’ in review

When I heard that Jim Jarmusch had released a new anthology film, I fondly remembered watching Night on Earth (1991) some years ago.
Freddie Lewis-Hedley -
Culture

On Geese and the Cult of the Fake Fan

Great statistics could be drawn up about how often men in Oxford will want to talk to me about Geese. 
Val Michael -

Lifestyle

Measuring out life with coffee spoons: Inside the Oxford death café

Jennifer Zhou -
“Jaffa cake?” These are the first words I hear upon stepping into Oxford’s Death...

Sport

Formula One’s controversial 2026 regulations

Gabriella Bedford -
Formula One – F1 –...

The Roger Bannister mile and its modern legacy

Tim Herd -
The legacy of Roger Bannister...

Oxford Competition Dance dazzles in first place

Niamh Tooher -
"Going into Loughborough, OUCD’s Varsity loss on 21st February still stung fresh."

DnB On The Bike travelling rave returns to Oxford

Hattie Simpson -
Hundreds gathered on Broad Street...

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