Wednesday 4th March 2026

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Corpus Christi College unveils its first female portrait

Corpus Christi College recently unveiled the first portrait of a woman to hang in its hall since the College’s foundation in 1517. The portrait, which depicts the College’s President,...

Rival protests over Iran war at Carfax

An altercation broke out between rival protesters at Carfax Tower on Tuesday evening over...

‘Connivery’ and ‘cheating’: Former officials interfered with Oxford Union tribunals

On 1st February, during a tribunal hearing, Samy Medjdoub – the former Secretary of...

Students join protest outside re-opened Campsfield House

CW: Suicide  Students from the University of Oxford society Student Action For Refugees (STAR) today...

Bishops to inspect Wycliffe

TROUBLED PPH Wycliffe Hall has come under further pressure after the Church of England announced this week that it had brought forward a scheduled...

High Table

 Millie Maler, DPhil Candidate, AstrophysicsA third year graduate student at Christ Church reading for a DPhil in Astrophysics, last year Millie took astrophysics tutorials...

How to be Queen of the Bop

Known for cringeworthy music, precarious outfits and floors sticky with the spilled vodka-cokes and lager of over-excited or over-drunk students, the bop is as...

Look Mum, I’ve downloaded a first class degree!

Let’s flashback a few years. Remember waiting anxiously for those A-level results to see if you’d ever get to punt on the Isis and...

German humour, part 2

A bit better this. The originally-named satirical blog Satire Blog thinks the top dogs should rename Berlin-Brandenburg International Airport "Willy Brandt Airport", "Helmut Kohl...

Funfairs

People here go to funfairs, some people go twice a week. They look forward to it.The whole af-fair (apologies) began when I exitted the...

Laptops Stolen From Office

£3000 worth of computers were stolen from an office in South Bar, Banbury, on Monday night.Four Toshiba laptops, each costing around £800, were stolen...

Plans for New Exchange Programme Announced

Plans have been announced for a new exchange programme with a university in Taiwan. Earlier this month the President of the National Taiwan University...

Review: Slam Poetry at the Port Mahon 15/10/07

By William HarrisHammer and Tongue 'Protect the Human' Poetry Slam “We’re running on poetry time”, said the bubbly, pink-clad Sophia Blackwell. That’s when...

First Night Review: Greek

by Marley Morris Berkoff’s tragedy ‘Greek’, based on Sophocles’ ‘Oedipus Rex’, thrusts in front of us a vision of a decadent and brutal London.  It...

First Night Review: Chicken Farmer

by Marc Kidson It is a pet fact of many History teachers that before becoming one of the chief architects of mass murder for the...

Sniffling and Spluttering? Help is at Hand…

The problem with having a cold is that people don’t generally feel sorry for you. In fact, they tend to feel rather annoyed. Your...

First Night Review: Fewer Emergencies

 by Luke Bullock  I have to admit that I went to see Martin Crimp’s Fewer Emergencies with a degree of trepidation.  Like many theatregoers these...

Oxford Academic lands Australian University Top Position

A leading Oxford academic is to take on the position of vice Chancellor at Sydney University next year. Michael Spence, an expert in intellectual...

Cherwell24 Comment: Tom Lowe

When I applied to Oxford I didn’t really understand how the collegiate system worked. To the naïve Irish kid, the only difference between Hertford and...

Architect opposes boatyard redevelopment

Local residents campaigning against the redevelopment of a historic boatyard in Jericho were joined today by a senior architect condemning the plans.A former president...

German humour, part 1

The usually serious weekly broadsheet Die Zeit has allowed a bit of rare 'humour' to fill its politics pages this week. German speakers might...

Haydn, Mozart, Bach with London Mozart Players and Robin Blaze, October 12 2007

Sitting in The University Church of St. Mary the Virgin, fragments of chamber music could be heard as the London Mozart Players began to...

17-Year-Old "Seriously Ill" after Bloody Fight on High Street

Police voiced concerns about youth-culture in Oxford over the weekend, following a serious incident on High Street.A 17 Year-Old was put into a coma...

Rehab centre, homeless shelter or childrens’ home: Oliver Brock in Nicaragua

A fountain trickles in the front courtyard, and the sun is shining in Nicaragua's capital, Managua. Members of staff punch their attendance cards as...

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