Sunday 14th December 2025

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Worcester College Provost made Labour peer in the House of Lords

Worcester College Provost David Isaac has been appointed to the House of Lords as a Labour peer. He is among 34 new peerages created by Prime Minister Sir Keir...

Oxford appoints Professor Mark E. Smith as next Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Planning and Resources

The University of Oxford has confirmed that Professor Mark E. Smith will become its next Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Planning and Resources).

German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier visits Oxford University

The Federal President of Germany Frank-Walter Steinmeier visited Oxford on Friday during a state...

Reuben College fire prompts university-wide warnings on student safety

Several Oxford colleges have issued fire safety advice following a serious fire at Reuben...

Flip Side: Political Apathy

Jack Marley-Payne Promoting political apathy is likely to kick up a pretty impressive storm of indignation, so I better begin with a few concessions: politics...

Professor reopens immigration row

An Oxford Professor of demography announced this week that the UK’s total population is likely to spiral to over 75 million by 2050, threatening...

Rebuilding Mother Russia

It is a sweltering July day: the Russian weather, like the Russian soul, is a creature of passionate extremes. Natasha and I are sitting...

Isis haze for drug advocating MP

A CONTENDER for the Liberal Democrat leadership has claimed he “can’t remember” writing an article advocating the use of hard drugs which appeared under...

Big Brother: Stress in the Stacks

Back in those halcyon pre-Oxford days, the library was a place one might  quite easily walk past every day for twenty years and never...

Fresher photos vandalised

PEMBROKE JCR are hunting for a group of students who scrawled offensive messages on photos of freshers pinned up in the JCR. In an...

Week at the Union: Homosexual Parenting

This house believes that children need heterosexual parents: A packed and glorious debate.Though not one whose outcome was ever in question – as opener...

How to be a gap year bore

So you’re a year older than everyone else and twice as mature? That’s a good start to being a Gap Year Bore. Got a...

Facebook ban after nude Rad Cam forfeit

A MAGDALEN student was temporarily banned from Facebook after uploading a photo of a Brasenose fresher’s penis taken during a drinking game.The explicit photo...

The Simplicity of Chic

Here’s a random fact: 99% of women want a man in a plain white t-shirt or a plain black t-shirt, v-neck or round-neck, along...

State schools attack entrance tests

STATE school heads have warned that new Oxford entrance tests discriminate against their students.The Association of School and College Lecturers (ASCL) raised concerns that...

New College JCR forced to pay in paintballing fiasco

NEW COLLEGE JCR has been forced to pay for an intercollegiate paintballing trip after Magadalen’s Entz Committee failed to sell enough tickets to the...

Dons defend DNA pioneer in race row

Dons have rallied behind a Nobel laureate accused of racism after he told reporters that black people were of lower intelligence than white.James Watson,...

Trisha Donnelly at Modern Art Oxford

Katherine Eve sheds light on Donnelly's multimedia exhibitionDespite Donnelly’s strong reputation within the art community, she is little known in the public domain,...

Living out costs to rise after new Council plan

Oxford City Council has announced plans to extend licensing requirements for rented accommodation in the city, raising concerns that students will no longer be...

Live Music Review: Seth Lakeman

by James Stafford Any mention of ‘folk and traditional music’ that’s casually tossed out in conversation invariably results in a few raised eyebrows. The...

Fears over Oxford Infestation

Oxford's infested, claims an Oxford Academic, amid fears that the number of rats are on the rise in Oxford.The investigation comes after Dr Frances...

Drama Review: King John

by Rees Arnott-Davies  Somebody once told me that if you want to give a play a bad review, simply describe what happens in it. ...

Drama Review: Crescendos in Blue

by Elena Lynch The message of this thoughtfully directed and excellently acted production is that life is only about love and jazz. Adapted from Boris...

Drama Review: Roussos!

by Frankie Parham  For something with an exclamation mark in its title, you’d expect Roussos! to be loud, bizarre and confrontational. For all the...

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