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Academics criticise the loss of political diversity at Oxford University
The Head of the Equality and Diversity Unit (EDU) at Oxford University has been criticised by academics for his support of Belgian police’s attempts to close down a conservative...
OUCA members accused of defacing campaign sign in garden of local official
Three members of the Oxford University Conservative Association (OUCA) were accused of putting a...
Oxford’s top choirs lag behind national gender trends
Strolling around college quads certain evenings of the week, you’re likely to catch a...
Linacre College names boat after river campaign group
Linacre College women’s first team names new boat after anti-pollution campaign group. The unveiling...
New humanities faculty building to open in 2025
A new humanities facility, located in the Radcliffe Observatory Quarter along Woodstock Road, is...
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....
Scraping De Botton of the Barrel
Open a newspaper, turn on your television or walk into a bookstore and there is a high chance you’ll encounter Alain de Botton: a...
All or Nothing
As vices go, nothing gets the adrenal glands pumping quite as much as gambling. Thoughts of vats of chocolate and gallons of liquor might...
The Art of Procrastination
Salivating at the delicious prospect of Cherwell’s unveiling of the dark, seedy underbelly of Oxford? We always knew it was there, just under the...
Chatting Up… The Stills
Can you summarise The Stills’ sound for the uninitiated? Our sound is probably romantic pop-rock; melodic with lots of big choruses. What’s your...
Greece is the Word for Trinity Term
This week, The Oxford Playhouse plays host to an epic tale of war, the fall of a great city and the power of the...
The Critic – O’Reilly Theatre, Keble
It is with some trepidation that one reviews The Critic, a play which ridicules the very occupation of theatre reviewing. Sheridan does not, however,...
Love of the Nightingale – BT Early
Rape, violence, murder, jealousy and tongues being cut out may not be the ideal night out, but Love of the Nightingale (Wertenbaker) is a...
Tarantino Proves Thur-man once more
Kill Bill Vol. 2 Phoenix & Odeon No single figure in recent years has influenced the world of movie-making as resoundingly as Mr Tarantino....
50 First Dates
Odeon S.A.D. has a lot to answer for. Obviously there’s the escalating suicide rate in Scandinavian countries. And then there’s my high expectations of...
The Girl Next Door
Odeon The Girl Next Door is the kind of film for which the term fantasy really should be used, although thankfully not a single...
The Fog of War
A rare gem of a film doing the tour of select cinemas across the country at the moment is Errol Morris’ The Fog of...
Miss Kittin – I Com
Miss Kittin is a female DJ and one of the main progenitors of the electroclash movement. Electroclash happened in 2002, and we all now...
The Stills – Live at The Zodiac
Canadian band The Stills sold out The Zodiac, promising an interesting plunge into ‘80s mope-rock, whilst trying not to be upstaged by the ought-to-be-huge...
