Saturday 6th September 2025

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Oxford Union sued for editing Susan Abulhawa’s speech

The European Legal Support Center (ELSC) has filed a discrimination claim against the Oxford Union on behalf of Susan Abulhawa, Palestinian-American writer and activist. According to ELSC, the Union...

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...

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...

Blues Teach Americans a Lesson on Tour

OXFORD’S rugby players began the season in fine form with an undefeated tour of the USA in September. The Blues defeated a New York...

Feature: Sport In Art

It’s very easy to think of sport and art as two very different, and even opposed, parts of life. There are a good number...

Review: Strawberry Jam, Animal Collective

2007 has already seen the release of albums by the two front-figures of Animal Collective. Panda Bear’s acclaimed Person Pitch sounds like an acid-tripping...

Review: Frames, Oceansize

Returning for a third album of thrillingly expansive prog, perennially underachieving Mancunians Oceansize have succeeded yet again in producing brilliant music destined to go...

Review: In Our Nature, Jose Gonzalez

González found unlikely fame thanks to a Sony Bravia advert which featured his charming cover of moody fellow Swedish synth-pop geniuses The Knife’s ‘Heartbeats’....

Genre Bending: Slowcore

Slowcore as a genre first appeared in the American music press in the late eighties and early nineties, with the advent of indie rock...

2007: The Summer of Cinema?

For many, 2007 was to be the year in which the cinema was the place to see and be seen. With about 80 films...

Brideshead revisited, revisited

Thrilled to be an extra for a blockbuster new film, Guy Pewsey soon discovered that silver screen Oxford is not as quaint as it...

DVD Review: 300

In keeping with the recent trend of films inspired by classical themes, 300 is based on the Battle of Thermopylae (c.480 BC) when 300...

Review: Grand Cafe

The Grand Café, with its opulent – some might say a touch overdone – décor, unintrusive background music, and friendly staff, has an atmosphere...

Why do we kiss?

The thought must have crossed your mind as you find yourself subjected to yet another Noo-Noo like clinch in some dingy club corner. Why...

Day Watch

Inspired by the novel by Russian author Sergei Lukyanenko, Day Watch is a fantasy horror epic in which the supernatural beings Dark and Light...

Flip Side: Converse Shoes

Sally Kidson Since their creation in 1923, 750 million pairs of Converse All Stars have been sold at a rate of 30,000 pairs per day....

Meeting Anthony Horowitz

Meeting Anthony Horowitz is probably the closest any of us will ever get to meeting someone who thinks like James Bond. Handsome, approachable and...

Sceneplay: Blade Runner

In a line up of the greatest actors ever to have graced the silver screen it’s unlikely that 63 year-old Dutch actor Rutger Hauer...

Stage Whispers: The Stagehand

It is the plight of the techie to facilitate but never to join in. To enable, but never to be adored. Our fate is...

Oxford Reaction

Sarah Kent examines the biases and stereotypes facing Oxford students. University is a liberating place: suddenly the overbearing parents are gone, the controlling girlfriend is...

Strange Sensations

I wanna be like Osama/ I wanna bomb a path to fame across the earth!” Not a quote from Al-Qaida’s latest video release, but...

How to be a college parent

 Whats love got to do with it? Gareth Peters on the gurus who would guide you to the perfect pickup. This summer, students approaching the...

Journeys by Claire Wiltsher

I enter the O3 gallery in the Castle Complex and my heels click intrusively on the stone floor. The gallery is a small grey...

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