Wednesday 21st January 2026

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Green Party becomes joint second largest on City Council

The Green Party became the joint second largest party on the Oxford City Council after independent councillor, Edward Mundy, joined the party.

The opaque charity funding St Anne’s new scholarship

Cherwell has conducted an investigation into the charity which jointly administers the Tikvah scholarship...

Bodleian Libraries Catalysts portrait series unveiled

The Bodleian Libraries and the British Journal of Photography (BJP) unveiled a new photographic...

Oxford University announces AI research partnership with UBS

Oxford University has announced the creation of the Oxford-UBS Centre for Applied AI, a...

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....

Cherwell24 Science Podcast – 5th wk HT08

Leon Harrington and Connie Han host a special student debate on the Government's recent approval of hybrid embryo research. Leon and Connie are joined...

COMMENT: Corporations vs. Climate Change

In Fortune magazine’s 2007 list of the world’s 100 largest economies, 37 of them were corporations. While states still monopolise the top 29 spots,...

COMMENT: Hip-Hop and High-Heels

I hate hip-hop and high heels.I suppose many Oxonians are sick of hearing about feminism. When I showed the article entitled “Feminist Future” from...

Pro-Test March in Support of Animal Research

About 200 supporters of “Pro-Test” marched in Oxford yesterday to “defend the rights of scientists to work in peace”. The rally began at 12...

Video: Pro-Test Speaks Out

Tom Carpenter, Selena Wisnom, Rhiannon Nicolson and Daniel Millichip report from from Pro-Test's demonstration in Oxford (9/02/08)  

Video: Local Bands Special

Rachel Williams and Helena Zaba interview local heroes Witches and quizzes the crowd outside Foals on the Oxford scene.With thanks to Witches for the...

Marx? Groucho, I assume*

So I was talking to a middle-aged Jewish man here in Frankfurt very proud to have the surname Goldschmidt. A very old and prestigious...

Video: Town vs Gown Boxing

Jack Pitt-Brooke goes behind the scenes at the Town vs Gown boxing match at the Union...

Video: Cycling Safety

Nejra Cehic, Sarah Karacs, Rachel Fraser and Rhiannon Nicolson investigate cycle safety in Oxford...

Great Novels: The Handmaid’s Tale, by Margaret Atwood

Although an ostensibly futuristic novel, the terrifying power of The Handmaid’s Tale lies in the fact that it is really about the present. Atwood’s...

Video: Chase & Status Interview

Catherine Molony interviews Will from Chase & Status for Cherwell24. Ravers, keep your eyes open for Cherwell24's interview with Hazard this weekend! ...

Super Tuesday: the aftermath

 Emily Packer examines the repercussions of a not-so-decisive week'An election is a moral horror,’ George Bernard Shaw once grumbled, ‘as bad as a battle...

Listings: February 8th – 14th

Friday February 8th FilmCloverfield (15) Odeon George St 1400, 1630, 1900, 2115Definitely Maybe (12A) Odeon George St 1245, 1530, 1815, 2100Juno (12A) Odeon Magdalen...

Comic Relief?

 Jennifer Anne-Hill champions the cause of the graphic novelSo you want to read comics, do you? Well, you’re going to need lots of storage...

Pete’s Week

I’ve not denied any holocausts, and I even invent extra ones Students can’t do anything. Put ‘student’ in front of any art form –...

Fit college: St. Peter’s or Pembroke?

See pictures here!St. Peter's......or Pembroke?

Gee Whizz: Oxford BabyLab

Babies are strange creatures. Small and pudgy, they elicit either cries of delight or frowns of irritation, but their parents worship them like little...

Clueless?

This week: A Geography paper by Classicist Josie Thaddeus-JohnsAttempt to account for the fall in total fertility rate in China from 7.5 in...

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