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Channel 4 makes waves, snatching Boat Race from BBC

Channel 4 has announced they have secured the television broadcasting rights to the annual Boat Race, upending a 98-year-old relationship with the BBC. The new five-year deal, reached for an undisclosed sum, will give Channel 4 the rights to broadcast...
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Embracing AI undermines academia

Emily Henson -
By facilitating copious AI usage, the University fails to deliver on its centuries-long tradition of encouraging original thought. 

Stop sneering at the staycation

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

The Encaenia is PR without the public (or anyone else)

Wholesale reform is the last thing Encaenia needs. If only people knew what it is, it would be a well-suited PR exercise for a modern Oxford.
Billy Arber -

This is how we combat the crusade against universities

It’s easy to think of an arts degree as a fruitless pleasure. But education and academic study are intrinsically valuable.
Morien Robertson -

Let’s critique what protesters do, not who they are

Billy Arber -
I may not agree with all of their tactics, but I am grateful for those who make sure that our University is on the right side of history.

Features

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.

‘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.

‘A dangerous moment of repression’: How is the US higher education crisis affecting the UK?

Mary Huan -
Over the last year, universities have become flashpoints of protest and backlash. Student protest...

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Culture

“NOR GLOM OF NIT?”: ‘Going Postal’ reviewed

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“NEITHER RAIN NOR SNOW NOR...
Books

On Gravel and Quads: Woolf’s Oxbridge in ‘A Room of One’s Own’

Virginia Woolf’s extended essay A Room of One’s Own is probably the most important 20th century piece of writing concerning women’s place in literature and education. It illustrates the...
Benjamin Waterer -
Culture

Dear Reader,

It has been so long since last I felt  your fingertips tracing my pages, cascading shivers across my spine.  I have missed your smile, and the way your laugh  reaches your eyes; I would do...
Tilly White -
Culture

Cillian Murphy does it again

Since his generation-defining performance in Oppenheimer (2023) two years ago, Cillian Murphy has shown little interest in playing it safe. Having collaborated already on the understated, unflinchingly raw historical...
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Lifestyle

How to survive Oxford

Ava Doherty -
Welcome to Oxford, the place where ambition goes to drink, cry, and write 3,000 words on “liminality” at 3 a.m.

Sport

The elusive magic of club cricket

Charlie Towle -
As summer draws to a...

Over 12,000 compete in the 2025 Oxford Half Marathon

Natalie Tan -
Thousands took to the streets...

England batter Canada to claim the 2025 Women’s Rugby World Cup

Tod Manners -
After consecutive final defeats in...

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

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The Oxford University Handball Club...

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