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SU Sabbatical Officers urge Government to “remove the barriers” to Gazan students reaching the UK

Sabbatical Officers at the Oxford University Student Union (SU) have signed an open letter urging the UK Government “to ensure that students from Gaza who have been offered places or scholarships at UK institutions are able to take up...
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The Encaenia is PR without the public (or anyone else)

Billy Arber -
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.

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...
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Racism tarnished my European year abroad experience

For linguists and lawyers heading across the Channel in third year, an idyllic continental adventure is not the whole picture
Peter Chen -

It’s okay to hate tourism in Oxford

Tourists are as much a feature of life as a student at this University as tutorials, Summer Eights, or getting unfathomably hammered next to...
Oscar Whittle -

This is how we combat the crusade against universities

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

Features

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

A strikingly egalitarian meal at Rhodes House 

Lara Murrani -
At Oxford’s third annual Langar, the Sikh Society transforms the halls of Rhodes House into a space of shared community and reflection.

‘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.

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Beyond the binary: Leigh Bowery’s radical individuality

Ava Doherty -
Tate Modern's "Leigh Bowery!" refuses...
Culture

St Anne’s goes All-Steinway: A purposeful and bold commitment to music

In a move that lives up to its motto of ‘Consulto et Audacter’ (purposefully and boldly), St Anne’s College has become the first in Oxford to achieve ‘All-Steinway School’...
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Just like the movies: An American’s notes on her Oxford year

Oxford occupies a mystical, almost fantastical place within the American psyche – so much so that when I told my peers I’d be studying abroad, they had me promise...
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Books

Reading Oxford books in Oxford

For those who have not even set foot in Oxford, the city still lives in their imaginations alongside elite debates, candlelit balls and formals, tempestuous love stories, and mysterious,...
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Lifestyle

Performative perfection and the reality behind the Instagram post

Natalie Conboy -
It’s a beautiful Sunday morning, and I’m scrolling through Instagram. One of my resolutions...

Sport

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...

Fencing Novices may be new, but they get the point

Thomas Yates -
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