Thursday 5th March 2026

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

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

The pro-Moscow President of Chechnya, Akhmad Kadyrov, has been killed in a bomb explosion. The President was attending a ceremony commemorating Russian victory...

Indian election produces shock results

After a month of polling, voting has finally closed in India’s general election. It was predicted that the Prime Minister’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)...

Thoughts of the Week

Give George Bush credit. You might think the day he acknowledges environmental and climate change will be the day he can heat up one...

DRINK: Sip

Sip 102 Walton Street (01865) 311322 Going to Sip is a bit like being a child at a grown-up, middleclass dinner party. It’s...

EAT: Baby Bar

Baby Bar 30 Walton St (01865) 515910 Baby Bar is one of those amazing places where you arrange to meet a friend for coffee...

Come out on top

If you read last week’s article, those glorious hats should now be adorning your rain-drenched hair. Do not think, however, that just because it...

Into the Minds of Serial Killers

It’s an age old question: what influences a person’s character? Is it nature or nurture? In a new book released this week Helen Morrison,...

Greed, Cuban style

As we belt down the autopista from Jose Marti airport towards Havana centre, crammed into our Soviet-built red taxi, this long hidden corner of...

Bored this Trinity? Try… Port Meadow

Summer is here (finally). Time to join every other Oxford student in the University Parks. For those of you who enjoy spending your afternoon...

Private Eye for the Satire Guy

Private Eye raises hell. Always has done – it’s been sued more times than anyone can count and provides much weekly amusement, from titters...

Basic Instincts

Phobias are, by definition, irrational fears, though it would seem that some are more irrational than others. A fear of heights on the top...

The Pride of Britain?

There are very few things that are seriously wrong with Britain at the moment. OK, so the weather might be crap, the food nowhere...

Chatting up: Jonathon Gornall

How did you get into journalism? Slogged my way through local papers from the age of 21, sleeping with anybody who could help me...

On the lookout for the genuine article

The difficulty in verbalising emotion, that holy grail of lovers romantic and refined, to enunciate a feeling so acutely felt, is evidenced both in...

Conversations After a Burial

If asked to name a play by Yasmina Reza, surely every avid theatregoer would suggest Art, the play that achieved global success in the...

Alice

If the idea of an actor dressed in a tailcoat covered in Jammy Dodgers intrigues you, then you should go and see Alice. A...

An Ideal Husband

Take one perennial play of the English tradition, stage it in the beautiful surroundings of the oldest college in Oxford, and watch the magic...

Morning after the Boogie Night before

There’s no doubt about it; John Holmes was big. He made over 2,000 films during his career and, aided in no small way by...

Van Helsing

Never is a cinematic experience more depressing than when the mobile phone advert at the beginning of the film is the best thing about...

Wondrous Oblivion

Paul Morrison’s first film, 1999’s Solomon and Gaenor, was a tragedy about an Orthodox Jew’s illicit affair with a miner’s daughter in the impoverished...
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