The full nature of the toxic feud between Christ Church and its Dean has been revealed in court documents obtained by The Oxford Blue. Christ Church Dean The Very Revd Martyn Percy has spoken out for the first time about the factional war dividing the historic college in his witness statement.
Wadham emeritus fellow Sir Roger Penrose has won the 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on black holes, it was announced today.
Former Australian High Court Justice and Oxford Visiting Professor John Dyson Heydon reportedly harassed a number of female students, a two-year long Sydney Morning Herald investigation has revealed. An inquiry by the Australian High Court also found that “Sex-pest” Heydon sexually harassed six female legal associates. The Oxford Blue has learned that he resigned his Read More…
Oxford theology professor and former pastor Jan Joosten has been sentenced to a year in prison and placed on the sex offender register in France for downloading 28,000 child abuse images and videos. Joosten, 61, has held the Regius professorship of Hebrew at Oxford since 2014, and is affiliated with Christ Church. Agence France-Presse reported that Read More…
Oxford University has delayed publishing diversity breakdowns of admissions data because of ‘world events’, HuffPost UK has revealed. In an email, circulated internally to staff on Wednesday afternoon, university leadership said that they “feel strongly that this is not the right time to share our data”. The data, which is released each year after the Read More…
Lois Heslop gains an insight into the challenges and unexpected delights of stay-at-home choir.
The Oxford coronavirus vaccine successfully blocked the virus in monkeys, a study has showed.
“Do all of our passions and causes that we care about even matter during a pandemic? Should I even be talking about them right now? I do think it’s important to be hammering on about the causes you care about in an appropriate way.”
Outspoken, opinionated, and affectionately nicknamed “Rita Skeeter” by our team, the sensational Camilla Long is Zooming in with The Blue for an hour on Wednesday of 3rd week.
Christ Church’s iconic Tom Tower, designed by Christopher Wren, was lit up in bright blue tonight to mark this week’s nationwide NHS Clap for Carers. Christ Church alumnus Dr Evan Edmond, who has been redeployed to work in the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford during the pandemic, switched on the light. Medical student David Kim, who is also Read More…