and Richard Burton" In 1998, after a series of growing financial crises, "Isis Publications Ltd" was created. Today The Isis is a termly magazine owned and published by Oxford Student Publications Ltd and is an anthology of poetry, investigations and art. The Isis also runs events for students in Oxford. Alumni The Isis has been the springboard for careers in literature, the theatre and television, with its specific influences in Private Eye and Westminster politics. Isis alumni include Hilaire Belloc, Evelyn Waugh, Harold Acton, Graham Greene, John Betjeman, Michael Foot, Jo Grimond, Sylvia Plath, Sue Lloyd-Roberts, playwright Dennis Potter, Adrian Mitchell, Charles Graves, Robert Robinson (the BBC broadcaster), Richard Ingrams (former editor of Private Eye), David Dimbleby (BBC Question Time), Paul Foot (former deputy editor of Private Eye), Alastair Macdonald (deputy Permanent Secretary at the Department for Trade and Industry), Derek Parfit (All Souls philosopher) Christopher Meakin (uniquely editor and triple columnist, on both Isis and Cherwell; Fleet Street etc.), Mike Harloe (vice-chancellor, Salford University), Peter Gillman, Mary Kaldor (Professor at LSE), Gyles Brandreth (MP and entertainer) and Terry Jones (actor). Then in the "only four issues a term" era: George Osborne, Nigella Lawson, Jo Johnson and Ben Goldacre. Paul Foot and Gyles Brandreth were also presidents of the Oxford Union. References Sources The Isis website Isis Online Billen, Andrew and Skipworth, Mark. Oxford Type. Robson Books, 1984. External links Isis Online Oxford Student Publications Ltd Magazines established in 1892 Mass media in Oxford Publications associated with the University of Oxford Student magazines published in the United Kingdom