Tuesday 11th November 2025

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Lord Peter Mandelson resigns as honorary fellow of St Catherine’s College

Lord Peter Mandelson has resigned from his honorary fellowship at St Catherine’s College. A College spokesperson confirmed Lord Mandelson’s resignation, telling Cherwell he resigned because “he has decided to step back from public life”. The resignation follows Mandelson’s dismissal as...
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Take it from me, there are worse things than Oxford

Laura van Heijnsbergen -
If you feel things are tough for you at Oxford, try to hold on to the little moments that remind you how lucky you are to be here.

It’s time we stopped fussing over university rankings

To combine all the factors that might influence someone’s decision-making into an aggregate score obscures as much as it illuminates.  
Alexandre Guilloteau -

The Greens must revive Oxford’s leftist scene

Student Greens are missing a crucial opportunity to challenge Oxford Labour Club's top spot in left wing politics at this University.
Morwenna Stinchcombe -

Dear summer school snobs, please pipe down

You might not like it, but in an era of rising financial pressures for the university sector, summer schools are not just harmless – they are essential.
Barbara Dolgova -

Statute XI is about power, not protection

Sahana Narayan -
The changes to the University's student disciplinary policy do more harm than good.

Features

How to build a ball

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Students have started reaching out to Oxfess to solve the annual dilemma: which colleges...

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Culture

The performance of watching: Cinema in the Letterboxd age

Eve Thomas -
While watching Paul Thomas Anderson’s...
Culture

Film festivals should be more pretentious, actually!

Film festivals often get a bad rep. We’ve all heard the stereotype before: they are elitist and out of touch, filled with arrogant critics watching the most obscure of...
Luisa Blacker Espozel -
Culture

On the edge of honesty: ‘The Man Who Turned into a Stick’

To rehearse and perform an entire student production before the second week of Michaelmas term is no easy feat - and The Man Who Turned into a Stick struggled...
Mair Andrews -
Culture

Erotic suspense and trickery: ‘Twelfth Night’ at St Hugh’s 

Lovers mismatched, siblings detached, and plans of trickery hatched: it is the time of year for Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night (otherwise known as What you will), performed in St Hugh’s...
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Lifestyle

Hyperactive brain, hypoactive thyroid

Olivia-Mae Butterfield -
Many Oxford narratives have been told time and again, but the story of the...

Sport

The BBC’s dying sports coverage is hurting Britain

Charlie Towle -
The President’s Challenge – the...

Austria, the Allianz, and applause: How we make spaces divine

Natalie Tan -
In March I twice came...

Oxford Sailors take on the Celtic Sea

John Frame -
Many people would consider offshore...

The elusive magic of club cricket

Charlie Towle -
As summer draws to a...

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