We shall endeavour to be humorous without being ill-humoured, critical without being captious, militant without being malevolent, independent without being impertinent, and funny (as Mr Albert Chevalier says) without being vulgar.

Two of the undergraduate contributors, William Miller and Paul Thompson, were both ex-national service, and wrote about British Intelligence operations on the borders of the Soviet Union.

This time it succeeded and the Proctors, despite a fierce intellectual battle with the Editor using their Proctorial Summonses, at length found it simpler to back down under the spotlight of national newspaper interest.

One issue during that same term was mainly devoted to an on-the-spot examination of a controversial parliamentary election in the Birmingham-area constituency of Smethwick, where the widely criticised Conservative candidate Peter Griffiths was considered to have fought a racist campaign.

One notable issue was devoted to the movie The Servant, directed by Joseph Losey and starring Dirk Bogarde, who were interviewed along with other cast members and technical crew.

Gillman felt the editorial mix was appropriate but Maxwell's typically grandiose plan failed because he did not arrange a viable method of distribution.

Quite soon, the absence of solid financial backing caused the frequency of publication to be cut by half,[citation needed] and the Isis began to appear fortnightly.

[citation needed] Again, a rescue squad appeared from an unlikely, but illustrious source, in the form of this telegram: 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 has been the springboard for careers in literature, the theatre and television, with 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), Ian Bradley (BBC and The Times), Alastair Macdonald (deputy Permanent Secretary at the Department for Trade and Industry), Derek Parfit (All Souls philosopher), Christopher Meakin (journalist, economist, banker}, Peter Gillman (writer and journalist), Mary Kaldor (Professor at LSE), Sally Laird (writer, translator and editor),[5] Gyles Brandreth (MP and entertainer) and Terry Jones (actor).

[6] Gowan Tervo Nell Freeman Leander Deeney Ally Carnwath Emma Farge Rodrigo Davies Torsten Henricson-Bell Alice Jones Noor Kadhim Lindsey Ford Maximilian Krahé Rebecca Davis Jack Orlik Jack Marley-Payne Joseph Charlton Jim Waterson Alex Macpherson Sean Ayer Tom Gardner William Granger Rebecca Chong Wilkins Daisy Fletcher Charlotte Sykes Peter Endicott Olivia Yallop Daniella Shreir Miranda Hall James Waddell Ione Wells Fintan Calpin Jacob Lee Samuel Dunnett Lily Begg Lael Hines Tobi Thomas Jiaqi Kang Lev Crofts Leela Jadhav Leo Gadaski Zahra Munir Neil Natarajan Ivana Cholakova Barnaby Pite Rita Kimijima-Dennemeyer Kalli Dockrill Natalie Perman Grace Lawrence Kiana Rezakhanlou Dowon Jung Mia Wu Antara Singh Zoe Davies Caitlin Morgan Clara Hartley Bella Gerber-Johnstone Violet Aitchison