Tuesday 29th July 2025

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King Charles opens new wing at Centre for Islamic Studies

His Majesty King Charles III visited the University of Oxford last week to open a new wing and education programme at the Centre for Islamic Studies, both of which...

Extinction Rebellion protests the opening of Barclays on Cornmarket Street

Extinction Rebellion Oxford (XR Oxford) organised a protest in front of Barclays Bank on...

Oxford and Cambridge receive £6.25 million joint donation to improve STEM access

Oxford University has received £6.25 million to improve access to STEM degrees in a...

Students frustrated over filming at Brasenose College during exam season

Students at Brasenose College expressed their frustration last week after scenes for a forthcoming...

Tosh. Or a joke, perhaps

The excellent German blog Die Achse des Guten ("The Axis of Good") has drawn my attention to this bizarre claim in today's Daily Record:Legendary...

Facebookieren

It didn't take long to notice that the Germans have no equivalent of the verb "to facebook".So I thought I'd coin one. "Facebookieren."It uses...

Anarchists

Last Saturday, I went to my first ever anarchist non-party. That is not to say that it was an non-anarchist party as I went...

Blues Athlete of the Week -Beth Wild

College: St Hilda's Clubs: Oxford University Hockey Club, Oxford University Women’s Cricket Club Year/Course: 3rd Year Geography Positions: Centre Forward, RHB, OB  How are you preparing for Hockey...

Exhibition Review: Helen Ganly: Journey into Light

What do a cake of the Radcliffe Camera, a stencil, a video of a river and a pile of notebooks have in common? -...

Book Depository Decision Delayed

A bid by Oxford University to build a £29m book depository will now be decidedin early May, pending a planning inquiry. Permission for the...

German quote of the week

Thanks to the big screen in the Frankfurt underground for this: Der Utopist sieht das Paradies, der Realist das Paradies plus Schlange — Friedrich...

Here’s one lot who’ll be smiling about the Guevara story

I should welcome Billy as the latest entrant to the Cherwell24 blogging community. His funereal post on how McCain’s going to be six feet...

Single Review: David Ford, "I’m Alright Now"

February 14th sees the release of “I’m Alright Now”, the newest single from English singer-songwriter David Ford. Thematically, the single sits between the somewhat...

Maggini String Quartet at the Hollywell Music room, 10th February 2008

The Maggini String Quartet gave a solid performance of a diverse and challenging programme at the Holywell Music Room, as part of the...

Quartetto di Cremona at the Holywell Music Room, 10th February 2008

Click here to listen to the Quartetto di Cremona performing Haydn op.76 n.4 Sunrise Menuet.  Four men, three unshaven, enter the room wearing dark suits:...

Oxford Philomusica play Tchaikovsky, 8/2/2008

Oxford Philomusica play Tchaikovsky, 8/2/2008   “Worthless, unplayable”, said Nikolai Rubenstein of Tchaikovsky’s first piano concerto soon after it was written.  Yet it has...

Catching the tiger and the dragon

I think we all agree now that China and India are the economic powers of the future. But do the German media do justice...

Foreign Students like "Safe" UK

95 per cent of international students rate Britain as being an “attractive or very attractive” place to study, research has shown.The study, undertaken by...

Coffee Concert: The Adderbury Ensemble playing Vaughan-Williams and Mozart

Holywell Music Room, 3rd February 2008  Every Sunday morning at the Holywell Music Room some of Britain’s finest musicians come to display...

DJ Hazard Interview

Friday 8th February @ Hit & Run’s 7th Birthday Tru Playaz night. Carling Academy, Oxford. On Friday night, I made my way...

College football – the race for promotion

At the halfway stage of this term and the three-quarter mark of the JCR League season, there are still many vital issues to be...

College football round up, division two

UNIVERSITY 1 CORPUS-LINACRE 0 University entertained Corpus-Linacre on Friday in a game of vital importance to the Division Two promotion race. Just before Christmas, top...

Woman Raped in Cowley

A woman was raped on Sunday evening as she walked near a children’s play area in Cowley.The attack happened just yards from Cowley police...

The Mpemba Effect (continued)

Last week we reached the conclusion that, in spite of Newton’s Law of Cooling, in certain circumstances, hot liquids cool faster than cold liquids....

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