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Sir Michael Palin and others to be awarded honorary degrees from the University of Oxford
World-renowned comedian and actor Sir Michael Palin and Grammy-nominated sitarist Anoushka Shankar are among six people to be awarded honorary degrees from the University of Oxford. This year’s Encaenia...
Labour loses seats in Oxford City Council as Independents and Greens make gains
The Labour party has been reduced to 20 councillors out of 48 in the...
Oxford Union believes international climate policy is neo-imperalist
On Thursday night, the Oxford Union voted in favour of the motion ‘This House...
Academics criticise the loss of political diversity at Oxford University
The Head of the Equality and Diversity Unit (EDU) at Oxford University has been...
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...
Cowboy landlords cheating students
Sarah McWhinney names the winners and losers in tenancy deposit disputes… Edd Southerden was in his second year and living out along the Cowley...
ticker.ticker.ticker.ticker.
Cherwell brings you headlines from the past week… George Bush has refused to criticise Israel’s air strike on Syria in response to a...
Party political punch-ups
Both Tony Blair and IDS have battled cynical media coverage of the party conferences this week, struggling to retain focus on policy in the...
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The micro-mini is a must have this season, as the sexiest of all skirts regains its catwalk throne and gives our favourite slouchy combats...
African adventure
Four recent St. John’s graduates, NICK STANHOPE, REBECCA GOWLAND, JONNY POLONSKY and ROBERT HADMAN give us weekly updates as they cycle the length of...
African sculpture’s heart of stone
DANIEL LLOYD explores representations of the women of Zimbabwe and finds little to praise In Praise of Women, ArtAfrica’s exhibition of Zimbabwean sculpture, which...
Brick Lane – Monica Ali
Give me your tired, your poor and your huddled masses…” If ever a place in England could speak these lines as that famous symbol...
Girls just wanna have fun…
VICTORIA CAULFIELD & GEORGINA TURNER seek sensual pleasure in Greece Clutching our factor 30 in true Brit style and looking for a change of...
A successful formula
Eddie Jordan is variously described as a fun-loving family man, an independent maverick and an incredibly astute businessman. On the eve of the final...
Pleasuring Yourself
MIRANDA KAUFMANN finds out more about our oldest and most controversial habit
Ann Summers has become a high street store, a similar outlet in America...
Drinking the town dry
There’s no accounting for taste. People’s personal preferences are so random that finding another person with the same opinions as yourself is impossible. Marmite...
Life Beyond the Spires
PHILIP WOMACK left Oriel last summer. He is now doing a law conversion course in London. Who would have thought that lawyers could be...
Fading away at the Fringe
Edinburgh Festival Review Very few other cities outside London can claim, as Oxford can, to have had eleven shows at Edinburgh this year. But...
Lolita laps it all up
Lolita Tuesday – Saturday OFS After a turbulent run at this summer’s Edinburgh Fringe, Aidan Elliott will attempt to reincarnate his fiery stage adaptation...
