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Oxford colleges take Aviva to High Court in COVID-19 insurance case

Twenty-nine Oxford colleges have launched High Court proceedings against insurance firm Aviva. The case, which was filed last month, concerns Aviva’s alleged breach of contract through failing to pay out for losses sustained during the COVID-19 pandemic.  The claim will...
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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?

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 -

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 -

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.

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

Night School: Oxford’s after-hours curriculum

Maya Rybin -
The first time I saw...
Culture

‘Delusions and Grandeur’ at the Fringe

★★★⯪☆ If there is one word to describe Karen Hall’s Delusions and Grandeur, it is anxious. The one-hour solo cello comedy show is filled with anxiety, existential dread, and uncertainty....
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The Oxford Revue at the Fringe

★★★⯪☆ Returning for their 62nd annual pilgrimage to the Edinburgh Fringe, the Oxford Revue rolled into town with their new sketch comedy hour For Revue Dollars More, accompanied nightly by...
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Books

Academia is hell, literally: R.F. Kuang’s ‘Katabasis’

R.F. Kuang’s Katabasis touches on a range of near-universal academic experiences: impostor syndrome; frantic, caffeine-fuelled study sessions; watching someone effortlessly ace every single test you suffer through; and, of...
Charlie Stevens -

Lifestyle

My journey with British identity

Rupert Hill -
I was gently raised with the idea that Britain was fair and decent, a...

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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