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Exclusive: St Catz racks up £3.4 million bill on concrete repairs

St Catherine’s College spent over £3.4 million in less than one year due to ongoing concrete issues, Cherwell can reveal. Catz spent £2.4 million on “temporary measures”, which was deducted from the College’s revenue account. The temporary measures that were...
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Racism tarnished my European year abroad experience

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

International students enrich, not endanger, our universities

The first line of the “About” page on the University of Oxford’s website makes a claim for the institution’s central focus on internationalism: “Oxford...
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Beauty without a purpose: Nature and the Oxford mind

Our recent spell of sunshine has offered a welcome opportunity to rediscover the natural beauty that the city of Oxford nurtures. Perhaps you’ve enjoyed...
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Journalism: A ‘dying’ art

In Palestine, journalism is no longer just a profession. It is a final act of defiance with life and death stakes.
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It’s okay to hate tourism in Oxford

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

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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‘This Room Their Lives’ in Magdalen College’s Waynflete building

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Every Magdalen member remembers their...
Music

In More, Pulp aren’t just trading on nostalgia – they’re fresh

In a year where many are talking about one Britpop band in particular – cough, cough, Oasis – the often-forgotten band of the same era, Pulp, have stolen the...
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Perhaps, Oxford

We met at a Latin meeting hosted by the Oxford Ancient Languages Society at University College. I signed up for Latin partly out of curiosity, partly out of guilt. I’d...
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How to Say Goodbye to the Cities You’ve Loved

For those of us between borders, home is not fixed; it’s cumulative.
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Lifestyle

My friends and I ranked (almost) every college formal

Amanda Li -
Amanda Li rounds off her time in Oxford with an impressively comprehensive review of Oxford's formals: rating the good, the bad, and the inedible.

Sport

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

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You probably know Prague as...

And the Isis roared – Summer Eights 2025

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For the viewing public, and...

In defence of the much-maligned offseason

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What will you watch? That’s...

Fencing Novices may be new, but they get the point

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Varsity competitions might seem out...

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