Wednesday 1st July 2026

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Jacinda Ardern and eight others awarded with honorary degrees

The recipients include former New Zealand Prime Minister Dame Jacinda Ardern; actress and theatre director Adjoa Andoh MBE; and literary critic and host of Finding Your Roots Henry Louis Gates Jr.

Tommy Robinson’s invitation to Oxford Union met with protest: Live updates

Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, otherwise known as Tommy Robinson, is due to speak at the Oxford Union at 8.30 pm this evening at a debate on the motion “This House Believes the West is Right to be Suspicious of Islam”. The event has drawn condemnation from University societies, local politicians, and local faith leaders.

Home Office proposes doubling of Campsfield capacity

The Home Office has proposed a second phase of development to the Campsfield Immigration Removal Centre (IRC), increasing its capacity from 160 to 400 beds.

New Oxford campaign seeks to demystify genetic and neurological conditions using animations

A new educational campaign developed by the Department of Paediatrics at the University of Oxford aims to make neurodevelopmental disorders easier to understand through a series of animated videos. 

Much Ado Abouot Nothing

Continuing the theatrical trend for all things al fresco this term, Creation Theatre Company have returned to Headington Hill Park with the chaotic comedy...

Something adolescent this way comes

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban Ozone and Odeon Wands out! Harry is back, older, angrier and with better special effects...

I’ll Sleep When I’m Dead

Like Mike Hodges’ best-known film, the 1971 thriller Get Carter, I’ll Sleep When I’m Dead’s central premise sees a man out to avenge his...

Bon Voyage

The charm of Jean-Paul Rappeneau’s Bon Voyageis that it doesn’t take itself too seriously. For many years now, French filmmakers have been drawn to...

Timeless Rock Classic?

The Datsuns Outta Sight/Outta Mind The brazen simplicity of The Datsuns’ self-titled first album (2002) seemed cleverly-timed. Not being modish, knowing or subtle made...

Ash Live at Oxford Brookes

Ash are back, and they arrived in style. Tim Wheeler appeared on stage brandishing his flaming ‘flying V’ in front of a sold-out Oxford...

Chikinki – Lick Your Ticket

The pumping beats and synthetic effects of the first track on Chikinki’s latest album signal what has been heralded as an ‘electronic dawn,’ with...

PJ Harvey: Uh Huh Her

The seventh long player from P J Harvey is a return to form. The follow up to Stories from the City, Stories from the...

Oxford’s own… Charlie Mauleverer

For those seeking relaxing classical music outside the wearisome confines of Classic FM, solace comes in the form of Vista Musicale. Their album, From...

The Cosmos: A Curious Book of Dreams

The acknowledgment of Islamic culture’s contribution to Western civilisation remains, for the most part, restricted to the margins of public knowledge in the West....

Cold Comfort Farm

The world of literature boasts a vast and varied landscape. The compulsive reader may wander through dense forests of almost impenetrable prose translated from...

Midnight Cab

On the evidence of Midnight Cab, James Nichol, established as one of Canada’s prominent playwrights, has made a perfectly seamless transition from acts to...

Students fail to score enough

20/20 Cricket Oxford UCCE 137-8 Oxfordshire 138-5 Thirteen runs in the last over of this TwentyTwenty encounter saw Oxfordshire home after two and...

RBT: From Christ Church to Athens

Mention the letters RBT to anyone involved in Oxford rowing and they’ll know who you are talking about: Robin Bourne-Taylor, of Christ Church, and...

Ultimate Queens

Queen’s followed their victory in the Ultimate Frisbee League by winning cuppers, beating Pembroke/Jesus 5- 2 in the final. Their run of competitive victories...

Keble PemBroken

Before the Blues game against Oxfordshire on Friday evening, it was the turn of the colleges to try 20/20 cricket as last year’s cuppers...

Hugh’s granted final berth

What could have more drama, more nail-biting sleepless-night inducing tension than the Semi-Finals of the 5-a-side Football Cuppers? Exams, perhaps. If the matches at...

Second ‘cry for help’

A man had to be talked down from St Michael’s Tower on Cornmarket Street on Monday afternoon, after threatening to commit suicide for the...

Hoorah a d hyperboled at the Oxford Union

The recent speculation and hyperbole surrounding the vulnerability of British democracy following the ever-so dangerous attack of a flour-filled condom found its parallel when...

Squaddies smash up student

Two on-leave soldiers from Northern Ireland have been arrested following an assault on three students. The Jesus College students and their friend from...

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