Monday 8th June 2026

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Oxford City Council announces new cabinet for 2026/27

Oxford City Council leader Susan Brown has announced her new cabinet for the 2026/2027 year. Brown, who also leads the Labour group on the Council, has appointed seven Labour councillors to the cabinet following local elections on 7th May in which Labour lost its overall majority but remained the largest party on the Council.

Prime Minister of Sri Lanka delivers annual lecture at Oxford School of Global and Area Studies

Prime Minister of Sri Lanka, Dr Harini Amarasuriya, delivered the Oxford School of Global and Area Studies (OGSA) Annual Lecture at St. Antony’s College on 19th May.

Oxford researchers collaborate to release open data to accelerate AI drug discovery

University of Oxford researchers have released a new open data set and AI model to accelerate drug discovery.

Rare Oxford University photo of Oscar Wilde sells at auction

A newly-discovered photograph of Oscar Wilde at the University of Oxford was recently sold for more than £5,300 at an auction.  

Oxford mourns Oliver Lyne

Professor Oliver Lyne, a tutor in Classics and fellow of Balliol, has died aged 60. His erudite but engaging books on Latin poetry reflected...

Explained

Driving on the leftIN VIOLENT feudal societies travelling on the left was a far better idea for the simple fact that riders on horseback...

Season of success ends in Varsity glory

Cambridge 0Oxford 20Oxford’s Women came into the Varsity Match with high hopes due to the fine form which had seen them win their two...

JCRs move into merchandise

College JCRs are to sell their own crested sweatshirts, polo shirts, tshirts and jackets by the start of next academic year.The move was proposed...

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...

MP supports Azim in Oxford

St John’s first year Engineer Azim Ansari continues to remain in the country, despite the expiration of his official deadline for voluntary return to...

Mourning Jean Paul II

Remembering his ten hours queueing in the Vatican City, Mark Cooper describes his pilgrimage to Rome to honour the late Pope, John Paul II....

Shelley Memorial all washed up?

On 25 March 1811, Percy Bysshe Shelley and his close friend, Thomas Jefferson Hogg, walked up and down the quadrangle in University College awaiting...

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