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Royal Mail upgrades Oxford postboxes to ‘postboxes of the future’

Postboxes across Oxford – and across the UK – have been wrapped in black plastic as their doors have been removed to allow them to be retrofitted and upgraded to ‘postboxes of the future’. The change is the biggest...
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Opinion

Course culling is a threat to us all

Ti-Jean Martin -
Education is valuable for its own sake, Rampant course culls are the result of wrongly boiling it down to economic value.

AI applications will quietly revive nepo hiring

When AI makes it impossible to tell what is real, recruiters will return to what (or who) they know. Is this a new age of nepotism?
Georgia Campbell -

In defence of the internship spreadsheet

It’s easy to criticise “internship culture”, with its nerves and competition, but it’s worth asking why it’s so contagious.
Antonio Reis -

Lawyers are weird. Mods are (partly) to blame

Mods makes every law student irritable, isolated, and disillusioned with their subject. We should move them to Trinity for everyone's sanity.
Lilly Law -

Oxford’s poverty porn addiction

Leo Jones -
It exists in the overly sympathetic sighs of ‘solidarity’, the overexaggeration of comparatively minor and mundane inconveniences

Features

Remembering Jaipal Singh Munda, an Adivasi pioneer

Sofia Mollona -
Hemant Soren, the Chief Minister of Jharkhand, visited St John’s College on 23rd January to pay tribute to his ancestor, Jaipal Singh Munda, who graduated from the University of Oxford in 1926.

‘Having sex with University Challenge on in the background’: The Sextigation 2026

Cherwell Features Section Editors -
Welcome all to the fifth annual Sextigation. Just like the boyfriend you need to get rid of, it’s a little late for Valentine's Day.

‘Making Politics Political Again’: Student left turns away from Labour

George Heeley -
In the miserable rain of last November, I found myself queuing at the Cowley Workers Social Club for a Your Party meeting at which Jeremy Corbyn was set to speak.

Bridging the gap? Oxford’s fight against wealth inequality

Leo Jones -
The life of a student is rarely one of luxury. Pot Noodles for dinner, Vinted bids in place of new clothes, and the widely-prized Tesco Clubcard have become small but vital saving graces as the cost of living in the UK continues to soar.

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Culture

Culture

Kooky and self-assured: ‘Brew Hill’ in review

Abigail Lakeland -
Pecadillo Productions’ latest show is (quite rightly) aiming for Fringe, but this kooky, self-assured tragicomedy has immediate cult classic potential.
Art

Art is an argument, so argue back

Often, how much we like artwork comes down to ‘vibes’, initial gut-reactions we make, and then quickly negate by stating that surely it's all about taste.
Maxim Vorobev -
Culture

Red soles, red flags: Jaden Smith and the celebrity takeover of high fashion

Smith’s appointment has raised some serious questions about the extent to which nepotism and celebrity is superseding artistic talent in the fashion industry at present.
Victoria Corfield -
Culture

The ‘Silent’ Film

Not speaking does not necessarily mean having nothing to say. As much can be said with an image, movement, or glance as with a word.
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Lifestyle

A body of one’s own: Medical mystery in the modern age

Beatrix Arnold -
Recently, I found myself marooned in that most demoralising of places, the NHS waiting list. I was soon falling down the rabbit hole of catastrophisation, after succumbing to the inevitable temptation of googling my symptoms (it wasn’t looking good).

Sport

A matchweek with the OURFC Blues

Finbar Dinnen -
Oxford is starting to wake up, a couple of cars and the occasional runner dotted about the roads.

Away day blues: The impact of unfamiliar territory

Ben Murphy -
With Varsity season fully underway, conquering the complications of an away day is key to a successful display of Oxford’s sporting superiority.

‘That’s so futch’: Oxford’s queer football club

Natalie Tan -
Russell and Katz-Roberts are two of the minds behind Futchball FC, Oxford’s queer football club founded in Trinity 2025.

Town and Gown share the spoils in boxing showdown

Natalie Tan -
There’s something very satisfying about watching people try to beat the living daylights out of each other.

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