Thursday 20th November 2025

Culture

‘Controversial but compelling’: ‘Women Beware Women’ Reviewed

CW: Sexual assault The Michael Pilch Studio might just have been the perfect venue for Women Beware Women. Intimate and beguiling, the audience were made to feel almost as naked...

GCSE drama nostalgia: ‘The Detention’ review

The Detention provided its fair share of giggles, but whether that was a result...

The power of the playlist

"These ten precious songs ... will become a time capsule"

Ceilings, wives, and love letters to the city: The Pre Raphaelites in Oxford

It was in 1857, not long after the construction of the Oxford Union, that...

Festive generosity

A few belated Christmas gifts..

Here comes the beat, all kitsch and sweet

What can we expect to hear at the royal wedding this coming April?

The Joy of Reading

A literary New Year's resolution

Review: Somewhere

Sophia Coppola’s latest film is worth a watch but does not quite match up to <i>Lost in Translation</i>.

The beauty of winter

Snow can mess up travel plans but we want to bring you the beauty of it as seen through our lenses...

Here Comes The Beat…

Rachel looks ahead to the royal wedding with a little musical dread.

Pay Day for tax dodgers

Jessica Goodman was in London to document a day of action against corporate tax evaders

Giant-Baby and The End of Love

Annabel James previews two new shows at Modern Art Oxford

‘Don’t call me Shirley!’

A tribute to Leslie Nielsen and the spoof film

Santa’s Bookbag

We asked our bookworms what's on their wishlists this Christmas; here's what they told us

Review: The Sound of Music

Cherwell Stage shrugs off its intellectual aspirations for an evening of classic Austrian cheese

Review: Of Gods and Men

A quiet, gripping and urgently relevant masterpiece.

How to fill your Oxford drama vac-uum

A look at what's on in Oxford over Christmas

The Battle of Westminster in pictures

We sent our photoreporters to document the most dramatic day yet in the campaign against higher education reforms

The X3 protests

We sent our photoreporters to document the events of an unusual day in London

Why bother with Godard?

As JLG celebrates his 80th birthday, Cherwell considers the legacy behind the acronym

We Need To Talk About Steve

We wonder about interviews with authors. What are they for, and what should we ask?

Eighth Week!

So it's nearly time for that last essay. Don't forget to keep checking our photos till its really the end.

Wham, bam, Peter Pan

Will Hooper previews the last Moser show of the term - a feel-good panto all in the name of charity

Rad Cam stormed – photo story

What happens when the Rad Cam gets stormed by angry students? We send our best photographers, of course.

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