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.

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...

Cinecism: Hayley Mirek explains her love for the worst film of all time

Plan 9 From Outer Space, a science fiction film from 1959, is widely considered a frontrunner for the dubious honour of being the worst...

Bird on the street

Freddy Parton talks to John Bird, founder of the Big Issue John Bird, founder of the Big Issue, is not your average charity...

Definitely, Maybe

2/5 This is the story of a disillusioned, soon-to-be divorced advertising executive who recounts his messy love life to his precocious daughter in the...

This Is Our Youth

Warren, wasting his life, has been thrown out of his father’s house. Stealing a large sum of money he arrives at Dennis’ apartment, but...

College heads push for autonomy from Whitehall

Six heads of colleges have this week urged Oxford to reduce its financial reliance on the government and find alternative, independent sources of income.As...

Indian Ink

Criticising Tom Stoppard feels like committing literary sacrilege. That said, Indian Ink is not one of his finest plays, despite attempts in this production...

How to cope with teenage pregnancy

Juno5/5 The history of Juno begins with one young woman and ends with another. Much has been made of 29- year-old screenwriter Diablo Cody’s previous...

Old Stagers: The Kiss

An ex-girlfriend, after the odd tête-à-tête, revealed to me that the first man she had ever kissed was now acting in the play in...

CD Review: The Duke Spirit- Neptune

You Are Here records3/5 The Duke Spirit have been toiling away tirelessly in the three years since the release of their moody garage-rock debut Cuts...

‘Wadham’s women’s fury erupts as drunk girls are hunted like foxes’

Wadham's women's fury erupts as drunk girls are hunted like foxes

CD Review: Hot Chip- Made in the Dark

EMI 5/5 The electro-indie band Hot Chip are back almost two years after their second album The Warning. Listening to this new endeavour Made...

The Local: Witches at The Purple Turtle

here’s something odd about Oxford students and Oxford music. On the one hand, as a bunch of predominantly white, middle- class youngsters, it’s no...

Modern Manners: Bad Breath

Human beings have a lot of pretty disgusting tendencies that are guaranteed to turn an ordinary, relatively relaxed social situation into an embarrassing and...

Pro-Test to march despite death threats

Pro-Test, an organisation that favours animal testing, claims that it has been subjected to death threats and violence in the run up to its...

Celebrations

‘I’m talking about love, mate! True fucking love!’ So says Lambert unconvincingly in Pinter’s play Celebrations. The play revolves around three couples and a...

Omkar blocked by RO

Krishna Omkar has been blocked from having his proposed changes to Union rules debated in the chamber. Returning Officer Cameron Penny believes that the proposals,...

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