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Catherine Xu wins Oxford Union presidency for MT26

Catherine Xu running for the #TRUST slate has been elected Union President for Michaelmas Term 2026 with 629 first preferences, by a margin of 159 votes over Liza Barkova....
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Oxford Union town hall HT26: Meet the candidates

With polls open for the next set of Oxford Union elections on Friday, Cherwell spoke to candidates running to be President in Michaelmas 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...
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Rival protests over Iran war at Carfax

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

Organisers of the inter-college JCR Association Football League are searching for the forgotten winners of what may be the oldest football trophy in the...

Weak Blues muscled out

The Blues had a very mixed week, with a convincing 25-7 win over Japan’s Kanto Gakuin University on Satuday followed by a weak performance...

SPC clobber Exeter

St Peter’s started their new season just as they left off nine months ago as the reigning champions played to the top of their...

Drugged up

This summer Lance Armstrong completed one of the most amazing performances in sporting history, absolutely dominating the three week, 3,000 mile super-race that is...

Crouching striker, hidden talent

I keep being told that Peter Crouch is surprisingly good on the ground (for a big man). But wasn’t Emile Heskey a great team...

‘Rugby moves in trends. Right now, England are behind the times’

As rugby players go, they don’t come more controversial than Austin Healey. Despite 51 caps for England and two for the British and Irish...

Taking stock

It has been an eventful long vacation. Whether you were stuck in an office in the city, sunning yourself in exotic climes or living...

So what are you doing with your life?

Oxford careers literature proudly proclaims that this university has educated twenty-five Prime Ministers, six kings, and three saints. This alone might go some way...

Obituary of the broadsheet

OBSERVANT NEWSPAPER readers may have noticed, over the last year and a half, papers have been getting a lot smaller. However, unlike the scandalous...

Passe Notes

So, you’re at Oxford now. You must be pretty clever then. But then again you’re probably pretty ugly too. And a virgin. And that’s...

He’s coming to get you

In the cult novel American Psycho, Bret Easton Ellis describes, necessitating frequent book closing and book reopening for the faint of heart, the axe...

Figs, Figures and Figureheads

FIGS, “SAID my father to me once, emphatically, “are not fruit.”“Are not fruit.”“Are not vegetables… they are inverted flowers.”“Inverted flowers?” was my puzzled answer.“Inverted…...

Stage Exposed

Emma JenkinsonMagdalen College, 3rd YearActressEmma last starred in the Edinburgh Fringe’s critically acclaimed How I Learned To Drive, and played Titania in Merton’s Trinity...

Doctor Faustus

Doctor Faustusdir Andrea Ferran11 to 15 OctoberOld Fire StationDoctor Faustus is getting dangerously close to becoming an unstageable play. Perhaps that makes it even...

It’s all Greek to us

Orestesdir Pippa Needs11 to 15 OctoberOxford PlayhouseThis term’s staging of Orestes marks the 125th anniversary of the first Greek play to be put on...

Comedy

Puppetry of the Penisdir Simon Morley27 SeptemberNew TheatreEngland’s Ashes victory is under discussion. British Woman: “Loser!”. Australian Man: “Thank you, madam, but you’re the...

Edinburgh cuts the finest Fringe

Thank the Lord for Scottish opening hours. As the body clock slowly begins to get back to normal and daylight hours once more become...

Singled out

I Said Never Again (But Here We Are)Rachel Stevensout now« « « « «You’d be forgiven for thinking this sex-with-your-ex ditty is the comeback...

Alice in Ultraland

Alice In UltralandThe Amorphous Androgynousout now« « « « «The Amorphous Androgynous may not be a band that many people have heard of. This...

Size does matter

Taller in More WaysSugababesout 10 October« « « « «Perhaps what is most striking about the new Sugababes record is its schizophrenic stance. What...
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