Sunday 8th June 2025

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Dominic Cummings to speak at the Sheldonian Theatre

Dominic Cummings, former Chief Advisor to Prime Minister Boris Johnson, will present a 90-minute lecture at the Sheldonian Theatre on 11th June. Cummings is set to speak about contemporary...

Oxford Bus Company urges County Council to curb ’emergency’ congestion levels

Urgent action by Oxfordshire County Council to alleviate Oxford’s congestion problem has been called...

University launches new online resource for state schools

Oxplore Teach has been launched by the University of Oxford as the an free...

University discipline statute retains ‘problematic clauses’ despite year-long consultation

Proposed changes to Oxford University’s disciplinary code have faced criticism for retaining “problematic clauses”...

Chile charms two gringas

While desperately resisting the advances of blonde-loving South Americans, Louise Randall faces ?re and earthquake, as well as local culinary delicacies, in the village...

Powerful Pembroke triumph

Pembroke 3Christ Church 1Many might have considered the final of the men’s hockey cuppers competition as a foregone conclusion. Pembroke fielded four current or...

RadCam rumours denied

Rumours regarding the future of the Radcliffe Camera have recently been circulated in the national press.There were suggestions that the Lower Reading Room could...

Fools, squires, and bagmen

Miranda Kaufmann discovers that there is more to Morris Dancing in Oxford than just old bearded gentlemen with bells onInstantly recognisable by their white...

UEFA fails to deal with thugs

Tuesday 5 April 2005. A special moment in the history of European football as Liverpool fans atone for the horrors of the past with...

NUS anti-Semitism condemned by JSoc

The Presidents of the Oxford University Jewish Society have condemned the National Union of Students (NUS) for its “failure to confront anti-Semitism”.The Annual NUS...

Health

Bipolar disorderMANIC DEPRESSION, or bipolar disorder, is essentially a brain disfunction causing unusual shifts in a person’s mood and energy. These shifts are manifested...

‘Even though we train so much’

Binyamin Even talks to OUBC President Robin Bourne-Taylor in about life as a Blues rower in Oxford Robin Bourne-Taylor represents you. As President of...

Accident halts High Street

On Monday afternoon a 22-year old woman was involved in an accident with a Stagecoach bus on High Street, bringing the City Centre to...

Eat

Ben Coffer gorges on piesTHE BE-MULLETED eighties pop duo Tears For Fears were wrong about so much, yet in one respect they were right...

The sensitive iconographer

Fifty years after Satyajit Ray’s monumental debut ‘Pather Panchali’ stunned critics and enthralled audiences at home and abroad, Somak Ghoshal examines the legacy of...

Inquest reopened into rower’s death

A second inquest has been opened into the death of Leo Blockley, a member of Oxford University Lightweight Rowing Club who drowned in the...

The plummy voice of NY

Plum Sykes, socialite editor and novelist, entertains Josh Spero with stories of Bergdorf Blondes and American VogueConsidered from afar, Plum Sykes is an imposing...

Touched by Fire – BT Late

This intriguing drama deals with a theme which has never been more relevant to society, exploring as it does the nature of terrorism. Inspired...

British Sea Power Live

British Sea Power landed on a stage festooned with foliage and an assortment of plastic birds. The fresh-faced five have cultivated a country-life chic...

Drink: Browns

Browns 5 - 11 Woodstock Road 01865 319655 The bar in Browns may not immediately leap to mind as the ideal student hangout –...

‘We won’t win the war’

MI5 boss tells LMH students the Iraq-damaged ’War on Terror’ cannot be won The Director General of the Security Services (MI5) returned to her...

Bare-faced cheek of thief at Regent’s

A member of Regent’s Park kitchen staff had her belongings stolen during a bizarre incident at dinner on Tuesday evening. The man who made...

The grudge match: OUSU vs Oriel

OUSU, ever the whipping boy of right wing colleges, got one in the eye this week as it found itself sabotaged from within. No...

Illegal opportunities for student voters

Yesterday’s local and European elections were shrouded in controversy across the country as the postal vote system was lambasted from all sides and arrests...

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