Friday 2nd January 2026

Culture

‘The political is also political’: Ash Sarkar’s ‘Minority Rule’

Universities have often been seen as bastions of radicalism. Forgetting the fact that higher educational institutions, particularly ancient and elite ones in the Anglophone world, are governed by centuries...
Books Morien Robertson -

Graceful and self-assured: Circle Mirror Transformation reviewed

Boulevard Productions’ Circle Mirror Transformation is a faithful and competent take on Annie Baker’s...
Culture Lara Machado -

‘We’re all mad here’: Alice in Won-DRE-Land at Tingewick 2025

When I wandered into Tingewick Hall on a cold, dark evening in seventh week,...
Culture Peter Chen -

A comical approach to a classic text: ‘Hedda Gabler’ reviewed

Tiptoe Productions’ Hedda Gabler, co-directed by Ollie Gillam and Gilon Fox, delivered a strong...
Culture Charlie Bailey -
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Underrated

Films that didn't get the attention they deserved...this week, The Fall

Review: The Last Station

Expect to see this hitting the BBC on repeat in future, don't expect our reviewer to be watching

Review: Extraordinary Measures

It doesn't quite measure up

Online review: Micmacs

Enjoyable film with a couple of incongruous scenes

Oxford Union Ball: From Russia with Love

Last Friday's James Bond themed Union Ball was double 0 Heaven...

Oxford University Orchestra (Benjamin Wallfisch)

Our classical music reviwer was impressed at the Sheldonian Theatre on 19th February

Photo Blog: Part VI

A sideways glance at life in Oxford...

Moments snatched in a life of touch and go

James Wright follows Jan Morris' new book 'Contact!' across a whole lifetime and half the known world

Landy’s ‘Art Bin’. Trash or Treat?

Sam Pilgrim ponders whether chucking away works of art can genuinely be considered, erm, art

Review: IMPerium

Elizabeth Biggs finds the Imps far from imperious

Review: Three Sisters

Perhaps take a rain check(ov)

Review: Samson Agonistes

Atmospheric surroundings pardon the flaws in this production

Review: Heligoland

Worth waiting seven years for? Probably, says Jane-Marie Saldanha

Review: ‘To The Rest of the World’ by Trail

James Andrewes is largley unimpressed by this unoriginal effort

15 years since

In our regular column, we take a look at the impact of Maxinquaye by Tricky

In praise of Evensong

James Maloney examines one of Oxford's great musical institutions

Ayck-born for the stage

Olivia Hanson talks to the playwright about his life's "fortunate series of events"

Haiti benefit concert: watch online from 20th February onwards

Berliner Philharmoniker (Sir Simon Rattle/Mitsuko Uchida)

Courtney Love speaks at the Union

The controversial Courtney Love talks depression, commericalism and dealing with life after Cobain

First Night Review: The Invention of Love

An ambitious but flawed production.
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