Tag: oxford

Our fashion choices emphasise how our individual styles are limited by the available market, and what fashion magazines and brands declare as ‘in style’.

The jubilance in George Abaraonye’s demeanour matched my memory of our first encounter, coincidentally placed at the location where his university career may be defined: the Oxford Union. I first met the student – who has subsequently become a polarising figure among the politically conservative and a victim of online racial persecution approximately a year prior – at the Oxford African and Caribbean Society (ACS) meeting, Say It With Your Chest.

Reconnecting with reading is something many people tend to do on a summer holiday, and statistics suggest it is one of the only times...

Cornish folk are few and far between at Oxford. As a Cornishman myself (albeit half Cornish), I can vouch for how little people know of our nation.

When looking back on abuse cases that have plagued the church, some of the most common questions centre around whether there were early warning...

When I returned to Oxford this term, just as England teased us with the sixth heat-wave of the year, I found myself at a loose end. With the deadline for two vacation essays still far in the distance, the sun lit up the sign for Soma Surovi Jannat’s Ashmolean Now exhibition, Climate Culture Care.

A high court case by four women prevented from studying at Oxford by the government’s visa brake was rejected in August, with an appeal pending.

Botley Road, which has been closed since April 2023 to accommodate expansions to Oxford railway station, reopened to the public this week.

Oxfordshire County Council has introduced a traffic filters trial in Oxford to replace the congestion charge.

“What is a good life?” This axiological question, asked earnestly in the opening lines of James Graham’s The Standard of Living – playing at Theatre Royal Haymarket until December 12 – is often overlooked by the fractured and hyper-specialised discipline of economics.

‘When he created Earth and these lands upon it, when he divided people into believers and infidels, the crescent moon and the cross, the...

CW: rape. This week, Cornell University has made headlines as prosecutors reopened an investigation into the alleged rape of a student at the Ivy League...

Whether it’s a mild sniffle or full-blown tears, I always end up feeling a bit ridiculous about the whole ordeal when it’s over. I mean, it’s not real, is it? Why do I waste my grief on things that haven’t happened, that will never happen?

Cherwell District Council will decide next month whether to grant permission for a £900 million data centre development funded by Exeter College.