Friday 10th October 2025

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Hundreds march in pro-Palestine protest through Oxford

Around 500 people joined a pro-Palestine protest starting at Manzil Way earlier this evening. The crowd marched through the city centre to Bonn Square, in front of Westgate Oxford, blocking traffic and forcing it to a standstill.  Protesters marched through...
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Opinion

The ‘S’ in ‘STEM’ stands for superiority complex

Poppy Littler-Jennings -
It’s high time we stopped arguing over which is more difficult, and instead started asking what STEM and the humanities can learn from each other.

From pensioners to students, all should fear the Palestine Action ban

If you think this is a win for one side over the other in relation to Israel’s war on Gaza, be careful what you wish for.
Ebrahim Osman-Mowafy -

Trashing rules save face, not students

Trashing is banned. But what does the banning achieve except pushing students further from the centre to more perilous waters? Recently, Brasenose students were threatened...
Chloe Smith -

The Language Faculty is promoting intelligence, not artifice

Isaac Asimov’s fantastic short story ‘The Last Question’ has always struck me as vaguely implausible, not because of its depictions of the next trillion-or-so...
Lloyd Doré-Green -

Stop sneering at the staycation

Arun Lewis -
If so much is available within the UK, what justification is there for an Oxford student to travel across the world?

Features

‘A constant negative spiral’: Students on Britain’s economic future

Subhan Aslam -
Four Oxford students sat down to share how they feel about the state of the UK. From pensions to the NHS and Brexit, their answers were frank, frustrated, and sometimes surprisingly hopeful about how Britain could change direction.

Drinking the political compass

Stanley Smith -
Oxford’s political societies cultivated generations of MPs and PMs. In an era of rising populism, a tour of their drinking events finds a drifting elite with few ideas.

The BNOC list 2025

Phoebe Davies, Laurence Cooke, and Satchel Walton -
It's finally here... the most famous names from this Oxford year

The Oxford offer holders trapped in Gaza

Stanley Smith -
Samah and Loay have scholarships to study at Oxford. After succeeding against the odds, they are unable to travel to begin their courses.

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Culture

Culture

Be brave, Oxford: Let’s put creativity back in the creative arts

Mair Andrews -
Welcome back, Oxford. While you...
Art

The Oxford Art Calendar: Michaelmas 2025

Autumn in Oxford is not only golden leaves, dark academia, and beautiful architecture – Michaelmas is also a season of creativity. The start of the new academic year simultaneously...
Polina Kim -
Culture

A tale of two venues: Oxford’s musical legacies

Oxford is a city full of firsts – historical, personal, degree class, and musicological. Two of its music venues, separated by about 250 years of history and a walk...
Milo Man -
Art

The Museum of Oxford celebrates city life in ‘Our Oxford: 50 Years, 50 Stories’

The Museum of Oxford, situated in the Town Hall, is celebrating its 50th birthday. As part of the occasion, they opened late on the 26th September to commemorate the...
Antonia Rogers -

Lifestyle

The maddening art of procrastination

Abigail Christie -
In delaying and avoiding writing this piece, I am succumbing to exactly what many...

Sport

Oxford Handball’s historic season: From promotion to British Champions

João Matos -
The Oxford University Handball Club...

Away days for less than a tenner (plus hand luggage)

Oliver Sandall -
You probably know Prague as...

And the Isis roared – Summer Eights 2025

Arun Lewis -
For the viewing public, and...

In defence of the much-maligned offseason

Natalie Tan -
What will you watch? That’s...

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