SU suppressed The Oxford Student’s editorial independence

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SU suppressed The Oxford Student’s editorial independence

The Student Union (SU) suppressed the editorial independence of The Oxford Student (OxStu) newspaper, in what a private letter from three former editors-in-chief called “overbearing censorship”, when it tried to publish the SU’s apology to a former president.  The paper is owned by the SU, which, despite publicly presenting the paper as independent, has used its position of ownership to prevent it from publishing an article that may damage the p…