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Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities opens

The Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities has opened in Oxford’s Radcliffe Observatory Quarter. The Centre is named after Stephen A. Schwarzman, who made donations totalling £185 million, including a £150 million gift which the University described as its biggest...
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Stop sneering at the staycation

Arun Lewis -
If so much is available within the UK, what justification is there for an Oxford student to travel across the world?

Trashing rules save face, not students

Trashing is banned. But what does the banning achieve except pushing students further from the centre to more perilous waters? Recently, Brasenose students were threatened...
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The Language Faculty is promoting intelligence, not artifice

Isaac Asimov’s fantastic short story ‘The Last Question’ has always struck me as vaguely implausible, not because of its depictions of the next trillion-or-so...
Lloyd Doré-Green -

Racism tarnished my European year abroad experience

For linguists and lawyers heading across the Channel in third year, an idyllic continental adventure is not the whole picture
Peter Chen -

The Encaenia is PR without the public (or anyone else)

Billy Arber -
Wholesale reform is the last thing Encaenia needs. If only people knew what it is, it would be a well-suited PR exercise for a modern Oxford.

Features

‘A constant negative spiral’: Students on Britain’s economic future

Subhan Aslam -
Four Oxford students sat down to share how they feel about the state of the UK. From pensions to the NHS and Brexit, their answers were frank, frustrated, and sometimes surprisingly hopeful about how Britain could change direction.

Drinking the political compass

Stanley Smith -
Oxford’s political societies cultivated generations of MPs and PMs. In an era of rising populism, a tour of their drinking events finds a drifting elite with few ideas.

The BNOC list 2025

Phoebe Davies, Laurence Cooke, and Satchel Walton -
It's finally here... the most famous names from this Oxford year

The Oxford offer holders trapped in Gaza

Stanley Smith -
Samah and Loay have scholarships to study at Oxford. After succeeding against the odds, they are unable to travel to begin their courses.

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Hoa hoa hoa season: An analysis of the small town aesthetic

Eve Richardson -
“In the state of Washington,...
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Fashion around Oxford: India Matthews

India Matthews, president of the Oxford Fashion Society, shares her style secrets and where she’s shopping right now. Cherwell’s style inspiration of the week is India Matthews, a third-year English...
Antonia Rogers -
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Where Oxford University Drama Society can take you

I loved theatre at school, and, aged 14, told my parents they had to let me go to drama school. In reply, they suggested I train as a barrister,...
Charlie Bailey -
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A guide to contemporary China, through cinema

“An artwork whose medium is history”, is how sinologist Haun Saussy defines China. As passionately debated as it is little understood, China today remains a mystery, the elephant in the...
Zac Yang -

Lifestyle

What does summer mean to me?

Ava Doherty -
“What does summer mean to me?” was always the first question on the first...

Sport

Oxford Handball’s historic season: From promotion to British Champions

João Matos -
The Oxford University Handball Club...

Away days for less than a tenner (plus hand luggage)

Oliver Sandall -
You probably know Prague as...

And the Isis roared – Summer Eights 2025

Arun Lewis -
For the viewing public, and...

In defence of the much-maligned offseason

Natalie Tan -
What will you watch? That’s...

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