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Oxford study to examine brain injuries in young athletes

Oxford University’s Biomedical Engineering department is recruiting volunteers to participate in a two-year study exploring the impact of head injuries to the developing brains of 11-18 year-olds.  Traumatic Brain Injury...

Town and Gown charity races set to raise £300k

The Bidwells Oxford 10k charity race is set to raise £300,000 for Muscular Dystrophy...

What the UK-EU deal means for students

The UK and the European Union have reached a new agreement setting out post-Brexit...

Oxford Union believes that Trump has gone too far

The Oxford Union last night debated the motion “This House Believes Trump has gone...

OxTales: Out of the Blue

by Naggeen SadidMeeting Calum Melvile, current President of the all male a capella sensation OOTB, is quite an event. He stood before me wearing...

Venus in Furs

by Ben LatimerCian Ciarán, keyboard player of Super Furry Animals, walks into the interview room looking a little worse for wear. It is hardly...

Hold the Front Page

by Daniel Roberts‘You’re up, big man’ I hear Editors’ tour manager say as I wait outside the band’s dressing room, before bassist Russell Leetch...

Genre Bending: Backpack Hip Hop

by Jack Marley-PayneIn the summer of 1998, four hip-hop artists were disillusioned with the bravado and posturing seemingly entailed by their career choice and...

Fit for young eyes?

by Monique Davis and Mary WaireriInnocenceChildren’s films these days, aside from the bright colours and anthropomorphised animals, are barely distinguishable from adult films. Take...

Sceneplay: The Squid and the Whale

by Hayley MirekThe Squid and the Whale is about a dysfunctional family going through a divorce, combining comedy, drama and awkwardness into ninety minutes...

Film Review: Beowulf

by Mary Claire WaireriBased on the Old English poem of the same name, this epic, action romp bursts onto our screens from the imagination...

Film Review: Brick Lane

by Isabel SuttonI haven’t actually read the Booker prize short-listed novel Brick Lane but, having seen the film, I’m certain it deserves all the...

UPP: Solaris

by Connie HanThe plot of Solaris, such as it is, can be summed up in one faintly absurd sentence. Kris Kelvin, a psychologist, goes...

Restaurant Review: Chutney’s

by Aaron BorboraRarely does one find a curry house that combines excellent food with tasteful surroundings and top-notch service.  But Chutney’s, located on St...

Week at the Union: Democrats in the White House

by Jennifer-Anne HillOne can’t help but feel that the quality of Union debates would be much improved if the debaters spent more time talking...

Lingerie Unlaced

A bit of history: Lingerie is a French word for all underwear, but through some extravagant translation it became, in the English language, a...

A Battle Half Won?

A movement that has run its course? Laura Connell  questions the need for feminism in an increasingly equal society According to the Equal Opportunities Commission’s...

Worcester flying at top of table

Worcester 2 - 0 Wadham WORCESTER raced to a surely insurmountable lead in the Premier Division with a 2-0 home victory over second place Wadham. ...

Hockey girls send Mary’s lambs to slaughter

Oxford 3 - 0 St Mary's A COMMANDING performance saw the Oxford Women’s Hockey team continue their glistening run of form, in the dark surroundings...

Blues on home turf prove too hard a challenge for Greyhounds

Brookes 10 - 8 Greyhounds FREEZING cold conditions did nothing to deter players on either side from attacking with physicality, but Brookes’ staunch defending denied the...

Blues boast squash victory

Loughborough 0 -5 Oxford AFTER a slow start to the season, Oxford’s decimated and rejuvenated Blues squash team have acquired a taste for victory against...

Diary of a captain – women’s rugby Blues

Thursday After a minibus test, I turn my attention to the forthcoming week. Unusually, the Blues have only played one BUSA Premier League fixture...

Tigers tamed as Catz run in five

Catz 31 - 7 LMH/TrinityUPON promotion to the top flight, the last thing any side would want is to face a team that ran...

An absurd denial

It is difficult to imagine what Union President Luke Tryl envisaged when he first decided to invite Nick Griffin and David Irving. Did he...

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