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Pro-Palestine protesters establish encampment demanding University action
An encampment has been constructed in Oxford in protest of Israeli action in Palestine and calling for the University to “end complicity with genocide”. Students, faculty, and staff have...
New humanities faculty building celebrates construction landmark in ‘topping out’ ceremony
"On Friday 3rd May, the University of Oxford celebrated the ’topping out’ of the Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities. The ceremony to mark the completion of the roof involved speeches from Vice-Chancellor Irene Tracey and donor Stephen A. Schwarzman, CEO of the Blackstone Group, who has to date donated £185 million in support of the project. Musical acts clad in hard hats braved rainy conditions to perform on the roof, still a site of ongoing construction."
Sir Michael Palin and others to be awarded honorary degrees from the University of Oxford
World-renowned comedian and actor Sir Michael Palin and Grammy-nominated sitarist Anoushka Shankar are among...
Labour loses seats in Oxford City Council as Independents and Greens make gains
The Labour party has been reduced to 20 councillors out of 48 in the...
Oxford Union believes international climate policy is neo-imperalist
On Thursday night, the Oxford Union voted in favour of the motion ‘This House...
Bored this summer? Try… Bicester Village
Like reading Vogue? Shop for clothes at GAP and Next although you’d prefer to wear Karen Millen outfits? Sounds like massive desire suppression to...
Euro Vision
We are forever told, through government initiatives, race equality organisations and indeed much mainstream liberal media, that an acceptance of ethnic and cultural diversity...
Ex-Pat-Riotism
Racism is a word that gets bandied about a lot nowadays. And with good reason. It seems as though, despite years of PR about...
Being Jordan – Katie Price
Nowadays, the innocent appreciation of the breast is a limited practice at best, excluded from popular culture and forcefully confined to pervy Scouse readers...
Chatting Up…Tony Hadley
When you are on tour do you have any bizarre backstage/ dressing room requests or superstitions that you’d like to tell us about? I...
Mamet’s mammoth masterpiece
American Buffalo @ OFS Arrogance is prolific in the thespian world of Oxford, in both character and production. Though in productions of real quality...
The Wind in the Willows
Pimms, punting and plays – what more could you ask for from summertime in Oxford? This year’s Trinity Lawns Play combines children’s classic and...
Stitching
Stitching challenges the selfishness which lies at the core of its young couple. At the same time, it creates empathy which makes its occasional...
This is our Youth
Transported from New York to London, this play depicts the troubled lives of three youths of the 1980s: Warren (Ferdie Addis) and Dennis (Angus...
Ambition, lies, and (good) fake photos
Don’t believe everything you read in the papers, the old adage goes. Or, if it appeared in the hugely influential American politics mag The...
Bad Education
Bad Education @ Phoenix Pedro Almodóvar’s latest film on sex, religion, and abuse is unlike anything you will see in the coming months. In...
The Saddest Music in the World
First things first: don’t let the title deceive you. This may be a movie about melancholia, but it’s also an absolute riot; hugely inventive...
In Need of Divine Aid
Faithless No Roots Out 7 June Before we start, there’s something I have to share: Maxi Jazz does something to me. And no, this...
Live: Kathryn Williams @ The Zodiac
Reviewers have described Kathryn Williams voice as ‘delicate’ and ‘ethereal’; physically she is much more corporeal. This was just one of the anomalies that...
