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Alan Strachan obituary

Director in the West End and regional theatre for five decades who often worked with the playwright Alan Ayckbourn

The Guardian - UK · Jun 18, 2025

IonQ’s $1B Acquisition and Drug Discovery Leap With NVIDIA

IonQ just hit investors with two pieces of big news. One shows proof of the company's tech being useful near-term. The other looks to aid its long-term goals.

MarketBeat · Jun 12, 2025

‘The impact has been profound’: the headteacher bringing play back to the classroom

Tina Farr has put play-based learning at the heart of lessons at her Oxford primary – with ‘phenomenal’ results

The Guardian - UK · Jun 11, 2025

Shibboleth by Thomas Peermohamed Lambert review: A campus satire for the modern age

Welcome to Oxford University in the era of identity politics, where students discuss “lived experience”, acknowledge their “moral complicity” and pontificate about ways to enact “systemic change”. The spearheads of these discussions have names like Annunziata Rees-Mogg and went to boarding school, except they’re not Tories, they’re liberals with right-on…

Evening Standard · Jun 1, 2025

Michigan court ends effort to sue Oxford school staff over 2021 mass shooting

The Michigan Supreme Court had dismissed appeals by families of students killed or wounded at Oxford High School in 2021

The Independent UK · May 28, 2025

Homework by Geoff Dyer review – coming of age in 70s England

Dyer conjures conker fights, saturday jobs and teenage rampages as he charts his journey from a two-up two-down in Gloucestershire to Oxford

The Guardian - UK · May 27, 2025

Do You Have These 'Controversial' Pillowcases on Your Bed? 4 Styles That Divide the Crowd, and Whether Design Experts Actually Use Them

Zip closure pillows, envelope back, or lace embroidered — no pillow is safe in this round-up of the most hotly-debated pillowcase styles

Livingetc · May 27, 2025

Discovering Lyra’s Oxford on a ‘His Dark Materials’ walking tour

July marks the 30th anniversary of Northern Lights, the first in Sir Phililp Pullman’s His Dark Materials novels. Ash Bhardwaj visits Oxford to uncover the locations that gave rise to the stories of Lyra Silvertongue

The Independent UK · May 26, 2025

Memory, movement, and marginality: Memoir of a tribal modernist

For a life that could possibly be best described as eventful, a slim memoir can often run out of breath in reliving its sweep. This sense of life outpacing memory isn't surprising for the Oxford-educated tribal leader from the Chotanagpur plateau in Jharkhand (then in undivided Bihar), who went on…

Newslaundry · May 24, 2025

U.S. may lose 230,000 jobs if foreign tourists stay away

For every dollar no longer spent by visitors to the U.S., an additional $1.19 is lost throughout the economy.

Fortune · May 23, 2025