Sunday 14th June 2026

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Oxford Union election count suspended amid electoral fraud allegations

he Oxford Union’s Trinity Term 2026 election count has been suspended after the Returning Officer identified substantial evidence of interference, before any ballot boxes were opened. 

Mansfield College redevelopment plans approved by Oxford City Council

Oxford City Council unanimously approved Mansfield College’s development plans on Tuesday, 26th May. The project, known as the Estate Transformation Project, will be delivered by architects Feilden Fowles. Mansfield told Cherwell that the development would “provide students and the College with up-to-date facilities they need for generations to come”.

Oxford Union town hall TT26: Meet the candidates 

With polls set to open for Oxford Union elections tomorrow, Friday 12th June, Cherwell spoke to the candidates running to be President in Hilary Term 2027. Milo Donovan and Prajwal Pandey discussed their vision for the society, the challenges facing the Union, and how they would respond to recent controversies surrounding speaker invitations and free speech.

Oxford law academic cancels lecture series on sex and gender following protests

Dr Michael Foran, Associate Professor of Law and Fellow of Keble College, has cancelled the remaining lectures in a series on sex, gender identity, and the law, following protests at two of the events.

Hoax fails to fox Cambridge Tab

Cambridge Student editor resigns over hoax emails

Union a-fumin

Standing Committee condemns librarian

681 angry dons

Oxbridge academics write angry letter to Cable

RadCam-nesty

Campaigners brave the cold for Amnesty

Anger over lost crown

Inter-collage rivalry reignited by theft of Queen's crown at Jesus

JCR motions no mis-steak

Brasenose JCR pass motions on library behaviour and steak society

OUSU hang sweatshops out to dry

Buy Right campaigners dangle out their message on Radcliffe Square

Buried Treasurer

St Anne's JCR Treasurer resigns after surviving vote of no confidence

"Sexting" makes the dictionary

New words added to Oxford English Dictionary

Going bananas for Fairtrade

St John's and Brasenose consider applying for Fairtrade status

Chemistry top for dropouts

Roughly one quarter of all drop-outs in the past two years were chemists

Blake suspect fraud arrest

Police appeal for information

"Missing" Brookes student found

"Missing" student had been writing dissertation for three weeks

New visas to cost Oxford £74m

Impact will be an "economic and cultural hit"

Fashion Week under fire

Members of Oxford Fashion Week complain over treatment

Access scheme wins acclaim

OUSU's Target Schools campaign "great success"

BNC find formal hall dis-grace-ful

Brasenose students deem Latin grace at formal hall “inappropriate”

College aids Christchurch

Christ Church Dean launches aid appeal for earthquake-hit New Zealand city

Union embraces Scientology

Church member leaves Oxford Union Scientology works in his will

Lost students find way back home

Students raise money for charity by hitch-hiking

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