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Hertford College faces student criticism for limiting display of Pride flag

Hertford College is facing backlash from students following a request that the Middle Common Room (MCR) removes a Pride flag from its window. Students have also criticised the College's limited display of the LGBTQ+ flag above Hertford this Pride...
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Racism tarnished my European year abroad experience

Peter Chen -
For linguists and lawyers heading across the Channel in third year, an idyllic continental adventure is not the whole picture

International students enrich, not endanger, our universities

The first line of the “About” page on the University of Oxford’s website makes a claim for the institution’s central focus on internationalism: “Oxford...
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Beauty without a purpose: Nature and the Oxford mind

Our recent spell of sunshine has offered a welcome opportunity to rediscover the natural beauty that the city of Oxford nurtures. Perhaps you’ve enjoyed...
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Journalism: A ‘dying’ art

In Palestine, journalism is no longer just a profession. It is a final act of defiance with life and death stakes.
Iona Mandal -

It’s okay to hate tourism in Oxford

Oscar Whittle -
Tourists are as much a feature of life as a student at this University as tutorials, Summer Eights, or getting unfathomably hammered next to...

Features

Drinking the political compass

Stanley Smith -
Oxford’s political societies cultivated generations of MPs and PMs. In an era of rising populism, a tour of their drinking events finds a drifting elite with few ideas.

The BNOC list 2025

Phoebe Davies, Laurence Cooke, and Satchel Walton -
It's finally here... the most famous names from this Oxford year

A strikingly egalitarian meal at Rhodes House 

Lara Murrani -
At Oxford’s third annual Langar, the Sikh Society transforms the halls of Rhodes House into a space of shared community and reflection.

‘A constant negative spiral’: Students on Britain’s economic future

Subhan Aslam -
Four Oxford students sat down to share how they feel about the state of the UK. From pensions to the NHS and Brexit, their answers were frank, frustrated, and sometimes surprisingly hopeful about how Britain could change direction.

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Art

Reviving the symposium at the Ashmolean Krasis programme

Dara Mohd -
Dara Mohd, herself a Krasis Scholar, converses with Dr Jim Harris about his object-centred symposium program, Krasis, at the Ashmolean Museum.
Art

‘This Room Their Lives’ in Magdalen College’s Waynflete building

Every Magdalen member remembers their first encounter with the Waynflete Building. Sticking out a little obtrusively amidst the serenity of Addison’s Walk and the college’s two grandiose deer parks,...
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Music

In More, Pulp aren’t just trading on nostalgia – they’re fresh

In a year where many are talking about one Britpop band in particular – cough, cough, Oasis – the often-forgotten band of the same era, Pulp, have stolen the...
Tom Cockburn -
The Source

Perhaps, Oxford

We met at a Latin meeting hosted by the Oxford Ancient Languages Society at University College. I signed up for Latin partly out of curiosity, partly out of guilt. I’d...
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Lifestyle

Intellectual manspreading? Male students of feminism

Ben O'Brien -
If I had to choose one, I’d say my favourite part of studying a...

Sport

Away days for less than a tenner (plus hand luggage)

Oliver Sandall -
You probably know Prague as...

And the Isis roared – Summer Eights 2025

Arun Lewis -
For the viewing public, and...

In defence of the much-maligned offseason

Natalie Tan -
What will you watch? That’s...

Fencing Novices may be new, but they get the point

Thomas Yates -
Varsity competitions might seem out...

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