Stop attacking the Bullingdon Club
In another disingenuous move, the writers have adopted events that did happen at Oxford – but not at the Bullingdon – and ascribed them to the Libertines….
Stop attacking the Bullingdon Club
In another disingenuous move, the writers have adopted events that did happen at Oxford – but not at the Bullingdon – and ascribed them to the Libertines….
Sexual assault and cronyism: Tory MP Craig Whittaker on consulting on Anatomy of a Scandal
Another week, another scandal in Westminster. This week, it is the news that the Prime Minister, his wife and the Chancellor of Exchequer have all been fined…
Revealed: the unsung heroes who excavated Tutankhamun’s tomb
Rosenow is archive curator at the Griffith Institute, the centre for Egyptology at Oxford University, where Carter’s records of the Tutankhamun excavation – including his hand-drawn plans,…
Toby Flood’s final Twickenham appearance ends in frustration as Oxford edge Varsity Match
Alex King added a third in the final move of the match and had Jamie Benson’s two earlier conversions not hit the upright, the great escape might…
The women who were cheated out of rowing the Boat Race course – until today
This afternoon, I’ll proudly don an Oxford all-in-one for the first time in 28 years. Together with the rest of my Oxford University Women’s Boat Club alumnae…
Why Boris Johnson is still in thrall to Oxford’s maverick dons
One of the more potent ingredients stirred into the cerebral ragout that has produced our current Prime Minister is his classical education, culminating in four years at…
Covid deaths impossible to calculate as authorities used 14 different ways to record them
‘Ravages of human stupidity’ The team said the confusion meant they were unable to separate deaths caused by Covid from those triggered by the pandemic response, and…
Rhodes scholar loses place at Oxford University after backstory of poverty and childhood neglect unravels
A Rhodes scholar accused of lying about being neglected as a child has lost her place at the University of Oxford, after it emerged that she is…
Cheugy, brain ticklers, quaranteen: how many of this year’s new words can you decipher?
You’re at a Christmas party where the conversation is about buying NFTs; a quaranteen mutters ‘so cheugy’ at her aunt’s skinny jeans (and her criticism of the…