Saturday 10th January 2026

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Farmers block traffic outside Exam Schools to protest minister’s visit

Farmers have staged a protest action on the High street slowing down the traffic with tractors. The Environment, Food and Rural Affairs secretary Emma Reynolds was giving a speech...

£17,000 on grass, redacted files, and 250,000 parcels: Cherwell’s 2025 FOI review

As the Cherwell Investigations team, we take our job very seriously. A big part...

Vice-Chancellor’s pay package rises to £666,000, among highest paid in Russell Group

The University of Oxford’s Vice-Chancellor, Professor Irene Tracey, received a total pay package of...

Oxford Town Hall flies Palestine flag for Ramallah Mayor visit

Oxford City Council flew the flag of Palestine from the Town Hall last week...

The Shield

Menander’s The Shieldis comedy in its finest form. The suberb translation by Giles Evans is complemented by fine acting, especially by Rose Pater’s Miss...

Kafka’s Dick

This production of Kafka’s Dick, directed by Sophie Buchan and Sara Carroll, is an excellent interpretation of Bennett’s absurdist comedy. It focusses on the...

Horror and Depp-ravity in the woods

Johnny Depp really should get himself a new agent. The man has worldwide adulation from female fans, and a talent as reliable as any...

Talking Lives

Angelina Jolie provides an enjoyable performance as the ice-cool FBI agent sent to Montreal to track down a psychopathic killer who cuts off people’s...

Suddenly

Not having seen Thelma and Louise, I can’t honestly comment about the similarities between it and this apparently Argentinean version. Two lesbians dressed as...

It’s Better on Holiday!

You couldn’t get much more hyped than this. Saturday was Oxford’s chance to sample the sound of the much acclaimed four-piece from Glasgow at...

The Walkmen

Have I been listening to too much indie-rock lately? This album seems to have a vaguely familiar feel, which borders dangerously on the verge...

The Beta Band

The Beta Band might well rank as one of the most frustrating acts on the music radar. They burst onto the scene in 1997...

Festival that launched a thousand ships

It’s been coming together for nearly two years, but the finished product is now upon us. The Oxford Greek Festival, brainchild of Avery Willis...

Something Beginning With

Someone once wrote a novel without any words containing the letter E in it. There is also a novel written in 26 chapters, with...

The Honey Trap

Once upon a time there were three little girls. They grew up to be three very different women but they had three things in...

Chinese Silk

Forfeiting my integrity and honesty while affecting a smile of interest, I agreed to review this exhibition. I mean come on, anyone without grey...

Worcester’s hats off to Hobbs

Worcester’s Jan Hobbs scored a hat-trick in the final of the Lacrosse Cuppers to sew up victory against a Hertford side which had shown...

Squash girls well Shielded

The Ladies Blues Squash team finished off their season in style on Thursday night in the Finals of the Oxfordshire County Championships. After...

Coming up… Blues Cricket Preview

With cricket written off this week by the dreadful weather, Oxford’s various sides will be itching to get out in to the middle, with...

Hall finds reserves of strength to crush Pembroke

Though Somerville’s first eleven captured the headlines following their 3-0 cuppers victory over pre-match favourites Wadham, the second eleven cuppers tournament proved no less...

Fourberries out of ten? No, at least an eight

French farce returns to Oxford this week with La Compagnie Molière d’Oxford performing ’Les Fourberies de Scapin’ at Wadham’s Moser theatre. The rarity of...

Getting Angry in Egypt

Nestled on the Red Sea coast against the stunning backdrop of the Sinai mountain range, Sharm El Sheikh is heralded as the jewel of...

Eat: Le Petit Blanc

Le Petit Blanc71-2 Walton StreetWhen hunting for a French dish, it is all too easy to dive on to Little Clarendon Street and settle...

Filming with the Devil

It’s an old story: wife has affair, husband catches pair ‘in flagrante delicto’ and violently murders them, before fleeing for his life. Perhaps not....

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