‘Rage bait’ named Oxford’s word of the year for 2025 Rage bait is defined as ‘online content deliberately designed to elicit anger or outrage by being frustrating, provocative, or offensive’ The Independent UK · Dec 1, 2025
What is Rage Bait? Oxford Chooses Trending Phrase As Word of the Year 2025 Oxford University Press announced this year's Word of the Year. International Business Times UK · Dec 1, 2025
Lane Kiffin Releases Statement After Accepting LSU Coaching Job The 50-year-old is headed to Baton Rouge. Sports Illustrated · Nov 30, 2025
Voices: The biggest risk Sir Andreas Whittam Smith ever took was co-founding The Independent OBITUARY: A risk-taking and highly principled journalist, Whittam Smith helped fund Britain’s first new broadsheet newspaper in more than a century – before successfully stewarding the Church of England through the credit crunch. Sean O’Grady remembers him The Independent UK · Nov 30, 2025
Charlie Kirk comments led to ‘threats of violence’, claims ousted Oxford Union president-elect George Abaraonye received criticism for his reaction to Charlie Kirk being shot dead in September The Independent UK · Nov 30, 2025
Report: Lane Kiffin’s Decision Between Ole Miss, LSU Comes Down to One Variable The college football world awaits his decision. Sports Illustrated · Nov 29, 2025
My friend had his £9,000 dream bike stolen, so he went online to turn his garage into a fortress There's a wealth of security kit that can help you protect your pride and joy, and I was surprised to see it wasn't ludicrously expensive Cycling Weekly · Nov 28, 2025
Maxton Hall’s Damian Hardung Broke Down Season 2’s Ending, And What It Tells Us About James And Ruby Going Into Season 3 Let's talk about that last scene... Cinemablend · Nov 28, 2025
The first human kiss originated 21 million years ago, study finds Homo sapiens and Neanderthals may have kissed, researchers at the University of Oxford discovered The Independent UK · Nov 19, 2025
Meet Britain's next top models: Libby Bennett, Calum Harper, Rubuen Bilan-Carroll, Bebe Parnell and more From the Haringey heartthrob to a Victoria Beckham-approved Oxford University student — these are the nine new names to know Evening Standard · Nov 19, 2025
Lane Kiffin Timeline: A Look at the Ups and Downs of Football’s Most Polarizing Coach Lane Kiffin has had himself quite the coaching journey. Sports Illustrated · Nov 18, 2025
Seriously Silly: The Life of Terry Jones by Robert Ross review – portrait of a Python An affectionate biography of the polymath includes details of never-produced gems such as Monty Python’s Third World War The Guardian - UK · Nov 18, 2025
From someone who’s already seen the show twice, here’s 10 songs Radiohead should try and get into the setlist on their triumphant comeback tour The Oxford rock trailblazers hit Italy this weekend ahead of their first London shows in nine years next week Louder · Nov 15, 2025
Peter Mandelson-Epstein Connection: What Resurfaced Messages Reveal Dive into the 2016 emails linking Peter Mandelson to Jeffrey Epstein, from birthday notes to Prince Andrew nods, culminating in his 11 September 2025 dismissal International Business Times UK · Nov 13, 2025
The Conversation · Nov 10, 2025 Medieval women’s legacies live on in Britain’s towns and cities A new statue of Dervorguilla of Galloway was installed in the Master’s Court of the University of Oxford’s Balliol College in September. She was the 13th-century cofounder of Balliol and its first benefactor.
The Guardian - UK · Nov 10, 2025 Richard Sharp obituary Rugby union fly-half who captained England to a Five Nations championship title in the freezing winter of 1963
The Independent UK · Oct 30, 2025 Where to watch Down Cemetery Road – the latest thriller from the creator of Slow Horses The new series is based on Mick Herron’s first book, published in 2003
Evening Standard · Oct 30, 2025 Line of Beauty at Almeida Theatre: 'Hugely entertaining skim across shiny 80s Britain' 4/5 This adaptation of Alan Hollinghurst’s novel looks at Thatcherism, the AIDS crisis and class in 80s Britain in satirical fashion
Marie Claire · Oct 29, 2025 Meghan Markle Styles a Dodgers Cap With Cashmere and Diamonds For Surprise World Series Appearance With Prince Harry The Duke and Duchess of Sussex matched in navy and white at Dodger Stadium.
The Independent UK · Oct 29, 2025 Down Cemetery Road review – a grisly detective treat from the Slow Horses stable 4/5 Emma Thompson and Ruth Wilson are superb in this labyrinthine, nervy and archly funny conspiracy thriller, adapted from Mick Herron’s debut novel. Oxford hasn’t seen this many murders since Inspector Morse
Evening Standard · Oct 27, 2025 The Rose Field review: Immerse yourself in Philip Pullman’s dark imagination It’s a story about growing up. But it’s really about Pullman’s nostalgia for the world in which he grew up
Fortune · Oct 26, 2025 'The Bermuda Triangle of Talent': 27-year-old Oxford grad turned down McKinsey and Morgan Stanley to find out why Gen Z’s smartest keep selling out Simon van Teutem talked to Fortune about “the illusion of infinite choice, and the social status … You’re always looking for the next level, the Harvard after Harvard, the Oxford after Oxford.”
The Guardian - UK · Oct 23, 2025 The Rose Field by Philip Pullman – nail-biting conclusion to the Northern Lights series The Book of Dust trilogy is brought to a complex and fitting end as Lyra battles the Magisterium over her lost imagination
The Independent UK · Oct 21, 2025 Students vote to oust Oxford Union president-elect after Charlie Kirk comments Thousands of members were eligible to take part in the no-confidence vote
Evening Standard · Oct 21, 2025 Oxford Union president claims votes were 'compromised' after he was ousted over Charlie Kirk comments George Abaronye, 20, lost the vote of no confidence he called in himself by a landslide 1,228 votes to 501