Thursday 11th December 2025

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Is the future of student protest set in stone? 

Niamh Lynch did not expect to attract international attention during Trinity term of her second year. That changed after her arrest at Stonehenge for spraying orange cornflour onto the...

Intoxtigation 2025: The good, the bad, and the Balliol bar  

Pour out a glass for the second annual Intoxtigation. 562 respondents told Cherwell all...

An offer is only half the story: The challenges facing college outreach

Microsoft Forms and student satisfaction polls mark our email inboxes each year as the...

Across the Atlantic: American academics are finding a new home at Oxford

As political and financial pressures mount across American higher education , a quiet migration...

Oxford, Oil, and the tragedy of Brother McAuley

The University’s links to fossil fuel industries run far deeper than just investments

EXCLUSIVE: Union term card released for Trinity

Just over 40% of speakers identify as women*, whilst 37.6% are BAME.

Colleges warn students of scabies outbreak

In their email, Exeter warn warns students that “Scabies is very contagious. It is spread from one infected person to another through direct, prolonged, close physical contact. Student communities are at high risk of spreading scabies because of this.”

Catz sign stolen in alleged “vengeance” for victory in the women’s football cuppers final

The match's losers were accused of “stealing” their opponents’ signpost at the end of term.

JCR Presidents brand University’s mental health provisions “completely unsustainable”

The letter claimed that "There has been a severe lack of public leadership on this issue from the University governance".

Statues Must Fall

“From the United States to South Korea, debates about historical legacy and modern cultural identity have raged around these figures of iron and stone”

The need for prison reform

After the fall of the Berlin Wall, writer Semyon Lipkin recalled what it was like to live in a state defined by regular unjust...

The case for human extinction

“A person would have to be delusional to appreciate existence”,“life is a net negative” and “existence perpetuates suffering” is just some of the festive...

The walls that stare – what college portraits tell us about Oxford

They say a picture paints a thousand words. So what do the thousands of portraits hanging around Oxford colleges tell us about the University, and the...

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