On Tuesday, Oxford Action for Palestine (OA4P) protested two graduations taking place inside the Sheldonian Theatre.  Protestors inside the ceremonies held out Palestinian flags as they entered the building and a member of the audience draped a flag from the balcony The post OA4P protest graduation ceremonies  appeared first on The Oxford Student ..read more

6 years after Pretty Little Liars ended, a new teen murder mystery is set for our screens, with the adaptation of BookTok sensation A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder. The post From page to screen: A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder appeared first on The Oxford Student ..read more

Gboyega Odubanjo’s debut collection Adam, published on 4th July 2024 by Faber, begins with ‘it’s us eyebrow slitted in the archives standing on the corner of here and there living dead as we could ever’. ‘Living dead’ feels like a promise. A promise first, perhaps, to ‘Adam’, the torso of the unidentified black boy discovered in the River Thames on 21st September 2001. Adam becomes the prism through which Odubanjo tells ‘a story of water and offering’ – a story […] The post Adam by Gboyega Odubanjo: A review appeared first on The Oxford Student ..read more

In an Email sent to the University College JCR members, Ardeel Hussain, former JCR President, confirmed that “the lodge will return to being staffed 24 hours from Michaelmas 2024”.  Beginning in the 2021-2022 academic year, the college removed the provision of porters between the hours of 11pm and 7am, citing financial constraints.  The Univ JCR passed a motion, in October 2023, condemning the decision, on the basis that  “historical and recent experiences” contributed to students feeling unsafe. If students found themselves locked out, instead of being let in by a porter, they ..read more

A short while ago, the country went to the polls, returning a landslide victory for Keir Starmer’s Labour Party, and a decisive end to 14 years of Conservative government. More important – and certainly more informative – was the OxStu General Election Poll, which we have analysed in detail to answer that all important question: how do Oxford students vote? The simple answer is…Labour, like the rest of the country. In our poll, they got 36.2% of the vote, with the Green Party in second place gaining 27.6%, closely followed by the Liberal Democrats with 22.1%. The Conservatives achieved only ..read more

Between 20-25 students and Oxford-affiliates gathered outside the Sheldonian Theatre on Friday in a demonstration against the Bangladeshi government’s response to protests in the country.  67 people have reportedly been killed in protests against quota laws for well-paying civil service jobs, though some sources estimate casualties to be as high as 133. On Thursday, the government enforced a blackout, citing “security reasons.” which was followed on Friday by a nationwide “shoot on sight” curfew and military deployment. The Oxford demonstration included PhD students, members of the publ ..read more

The University of Oxford will become the first team sponsors of Oxford City Football Club next season as part of a new long-term partnership. Oxford City’s men’s and women’s first team shirts will bear the University’s name and logo to help inaugurate a series of new research-based collaborations. Education, research, and facilities are the three key areas that the new partnership programme will focus on. Among the planned projects are the development of a new professional football player certificate, the sharing of University facilities, and the continuation of existing sports research progr ..read more

Another final, another opportunity rued for Southgate’s men. 2024 could have been on par to 1966 and 1066, yet it was a sobering affair and will be a perennial reminder of what could have been. There was no Great Escape in Berlin on Sunday night. 58 years of hurt will soon turn to 60. The too familiar heartbreak will be worse than the hangovers and football won’t be coming home.  England were beaten by an unequivocally better Spanish team. The scoreline was flattering: 2-1 with a late 86th minute winner. It gives the appearance of England being close when in reality they were so far. A b ..read more

Anticipating a weekend of football frenzy, it was a shock to see coverage of boozed-up Brits in Benidorm interrupted to announce that shots had been fired at the Pennsylvania campaign rally of former President Donald Trump. Clips of the incident and moments that followed showed a man defiant, of both his attacker and Secret Service attempts to shield him from further attacks. At the time of writing details are still emerging, but we know that Trump is not seriously harmed, two were critically injured, and the shooter and an audience member are dead. The absence of hard facts has not impeded t ..read more

On the 24th of November 1992, with the ashes of Windsor Castle still so pungent in the air, the late Queen Elizabeth described that year, the year of her Ruby Jubilee, as Annus horribilis – the “horrible year”. The Latin epithet is one fitting for each year of the last decade or so of British politics, an epoch that is all that many first-time voters will have ever known. An epoch of Toryism; of another crisis of capitalism; of austerity; of a paralysed NHS; of Grenfell; of Windrush; of sleaze and corruption; and (to channel Claire Foy playing the late Queen in The Crown) a confederacy of ele ..read more