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.

College football report: St John’s 1-3 Pembroke

The increasingly open race for promotion to the First Division saw another twist on Friday as an impressive Pembroke College won at St John's. ...

Timon of Athens

In any discussion of Shakespeare, we have all come to inevitably expect the immediate worship of everything he produced. We are inclined to replace...

I Love Peach Blossom

Review by Rees Arnott-Davies.One anticipates when seeing a play in a foreign language (especially one so distant as Mandarin) that something is always going...

Desert of the Real

Review by Frankie ParhamConflict can always make good drama. From Homer’s Iliad to Kubrick’s Full Metal Jacket, warfare offers the perfect environment for man...

Video: The Wychwood Warriors

Max Thompson and Rachel Fraser find out what it is to be a Viking in the 21st century.

Week 5 Mid-Week News

Sangwon Yoon and Jenny Moore keep us update on news this week in the mid-week news round up . 

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...

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