Sunday 31st August 2025

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Protests outside Oxford asylum hotel as campaigners call for unity and compassion

Around 50 protesters from Stand Up to Racism (SUTR) and other local groups gathered yesterday outside a Holiday Inn Express near the Kassam Stadium to oppose a smaller anti-immigration...

Gazan offer holders ‘relieved’ as government approves visas

Oxford University offer holders living in Gaza have told Cherwell that they feel “a...

SU launches new community fund for society events

The Oxford University Student Union (SU) is launching a new community fund to support...

SU Sabbatical Officers urge Government to “remove the barriers” to Gazan students reaching the UK

Sabbatical Officers at the Oxford University Student Union (SU) have signed an open letter...

Foreign Students like "Safe" UK

95 per cent of international students rate Britain as being an “attractive or very attractive” place to study, research has shown.The study, undertaken by...

Coffee Concert: The Adderbury Ensemble playing Vaughan-Williams and Mozart

Holywell Music Room, 3rd February 2008  Every Sunday morning at the Holywell Music Room some of Britain’s finest musicians come to display...

DJ Hazard Interview

Friday 8th February @ Hit & Run’s 7th Birthday Tru Playaz night. Carling Academy, Oxford. On Friday night, I made my way...

College football – the race for promotion

At the halfway stage of this term and the three-quarter mark of the JCR League season, there are still many vital issues to be...

College football round up, division two

UNIVERSITY 1 CORPUS-LINACRE 0 University entertained Corpus-Linacre on Friday in a game of vital importance to the Division Two promotion race. Just before Christmas, top...

Woman Raped in Cowley

A woman was raped on Sunday evening as she walked near a children’s play area in Cowley.The attack happened just yards from Cowley police...

The Mpemba Effect (continued)

Last week we reached the conclusion that, in spite of Newton’s Law of Cooling, in certain circumstances, hot liquids cool faster than cold liquids....

Cherwell24 Science Podcast – 5th wk HT08

Leon Harrington and Connie Han host a special student debate on the Government's recent approval of hybrid embryo research. Leon and Connie are joined...

COMMENT: Corporations vs. Climate Change

In Fortune magazine’s 2007 list of the world’s 100 largest economies, 37 of them were corporations. While states still monopolise the top 29 spots,...

COMMENT: Hip-Hop and High-Heels

I hate hip-hop and high heels.I suppose many Oxonians are sick of hearing about feminism. When I showed the article entitled “Feminist Future” from...

Pro-Test March in Support of Animal Research

About 200 supporters of “Pro-Test” marched in Oxford yesterday to “defend the rights of scientists to work in peace”. The rally began at 12...

Video: Pro-Test Speaks Out

Tom Carpenter, Selena Wisnom, Rhiannon Nicolson and Daniel Millichip report from from Pro-Test's demonstration in Oxford (9/02/08)  

Video: Local Bands Special

Rachel Williams and Helena Zaba interview local heroes Witches and quizzes the crowd outside Foals on the Oxford scene.With thanks to Witches for the...

Marx? Groucho, I assume*

So I was talking to a middle-aged Jewish man here in Frankfurt very proud to have the surname Goldschmidt. A very old and prestigious...

Video: Town vs Gown Boxing

Jack Pitt-Brooke goes behind the scenes at the Town vs Gown boxing match at the Union...

Video: Cycling Safety

Nejra Cehic, Sarah Karacs, Rachel Fraser and Rhiannon Nicolson investigate cycle safety in Oxford...

Great Novels: The Handmaid’s Tale, by Margaret Atwood

Although an ostensibly futuristic novel, the terrifying power of The Handmaid’s Tale lies in the fact that it is really about the present. Atwood’s...

Video: Chase & Status Interview

Catherine Molony interviews Will from Chase & Status for Cherwell24. Ravers, keep your eyes open for Cherwell24's interview with Hazard this weekend! ...

Super Tuesday: the aftermath

 Emily Packer examines the repercussions of a not-so-decisive week'An election is a moral horror,’ George Bernard Shaw once grumbled, ‘as bad as a battle...

Listings: February 8th – 14th

Friday February 8th FilmCloverfield (15) Odeon George St 1400, 1630, 1900, 2115Definitely Maybe (12A) Odeon George St 1245, 1530, 1815, 2100Juno (12A) Odeon Magdalen...

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