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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 six people to be awarded honorary degrees from the University of Oxford. This year’s Encaenia...
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...
Academics criticise the loss of political diversity at Oxford University
The Head of the Equality and Diversity Unit (EDU) at Oxford University has been...
OUCA members accused of defacing campaign sign in garden of local official
Three members of the Oxford University Conservative Association (OUCA) were accused of putting a...
No more plane sailing
It’s never a good idea to let the newspapers make your decisions for you. If you were to believe everything you read in the daily...
Working harder, playing harder
At any one time it is estimated that 0.7% of the world’s population are drunk. In a microcosm such as Oxford this figure, particularly...
Balk at the Wild Side
It seems extremism in all shapes and forms is permeating so many aspects of our lives these days; aside from the everyday worries of...
Shock and Whore
The problem with extreme sex is that I’m not entirely convinced such a thing exists. If anything, it conjures ludicrous images of overweight women...
Violence is not golden
This nefarious exploration of all things savage is a deliberately perverse piece, to such an extent that to grasp either where it’s coming from...
Smashing Entertainment
Bash is a series of three short pieces that show us people who have been pushed over familiar boundaries. Labute’s vision is a bleak...
Court “underestimated” student’s life
The mother of Edmund Sutton, an Oxford student killed in a car crash last year, has expressed her anger and grief after the Cambridge...
Untitled Archive Articles
Left turn Oriel JCR is considering the use of legal force against College bursars. Oriel looks set to take the Estate Bursars Committee to...
Dons call for privatisation
Top college chiefs are pushing the University towards privatisation in a blow to both government tuition-fee plans and the student campaign against top-up fees....
Freshers’ bus stalls after media hype
Oxford students were portrayed as molly-coddled and spoon-fed by the national press last week in the wake of foiled plans by the Oxford University...
Job struggle for poorer students
A new report reveals that for the large majority of working class graduates, the chances of getting “interesting and meaningful” work are slim. The...
Meeting to defend Kelly’s faith
The Oxford Baha’i Society held an open meeting this week following the media frenzy surrounding the death of one of its followers, Dr David...
Wadham bops threatened with closure
Police put an abrupt end to Wadham’s freshers’ bop on Friday night following complaints from local residents over the “unbearable” noise. The organisers cut...
Union defies anti-joining campaign
A University wide campaign, launched to discourage freshers from joining the Union has been traced to anti-smoking campaigners. In a renewed attempt to ban...
