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Catherine Xu wins Oxford Union presidency for MT26

Catherine Xu running for the #TRUST slate has been elected Union President for Michaelmas Term 2026 with 629 first preferences, by a margin of 159 votes over Liza Barkova....

Oxford Union town hall HT26: Meet the candidates

With polls open for the next set of Oxford Union elections on Friday, Cherwell spoke to candidates running to be President in Michaelmas 2026.

Corpus Christi College unveils its first female portrait

Corpus Christi College recently unveiled the first portrait of a woman to hang in...

Rival protests over Iran war at Carfax

An altercation broke out between rival protesters at Carfax Tower on Tuesday evening over...

Hall progress as Ielpo saves them again

 Queen's 1 - 1 St Edmund Hall (St Edmund Hall won 4-2 on penalties)You could have been forgiven for dealing in clichés when describing this...

House of Bernada Alba

A classic Spanish text with an East Enders plot? Surely not! When I went to see House of Bernada Alba, Federico Garcia Lorca’s last...

Vote Obama for hope, Clinton for spin

by Scott Hugo The United States of America stand at a crossroads in 2008, and the fate of our country will be directed by the...

Old Stagers: Dramatic Irony

Dramatic irony is the tired old cry of ‘it’s behind you’ in a pantomime; it’s Romeo stabbing himself needlessly next to his sleeping lover;...

Last Orders for binge drinking

 by Joe Wellington Picture this: it’s a Thursday evening and overcooking my latest tutorial assignment has left precious little pre-drinking time. However, not all...

Seeing the Light

Stone Gods emerge from The Darkness I have failed you. I am sorry. You lent me the Dictaphone and everything, and I let you down....

Brasenose come close to Cuppers upset

 Magdalen 23 - 22 Brasenose It was almost the upset of the season. Brasenose had finished at the very bottom of the fourth division and...

The Local: Martha Rowsell at The Jericho Tavern

The Local: Martha Rowsell at The Jericho TavernMartha Rowsell’s favourite venue was a retro clothes shop back home in Brighton. ‘I was surrounded by...

Donkey’s Years / Desert of the Real

Oxford and Cambridge are home, not only to dreaming spires, but also to aspiring drama. Donkeys’ Years is firmly fixed in college. It follows...

Rainbow Messiah

Ranjit Majundar visits Peter Tatchell, the man who arrested Mugabe I had no apprehensions about approaching the highly secure abode of the country’s...

Video: 3rd Week Blues Football

Reaction from 3 Oxford Blues footballers, Alex Toogood, Matthew Rigby, and Nik Baker, on their 3-1 win over Bedfordshire University. by Jack Pitt-Brooke and Ben...

More about sausages

Vee vill find a vay of tracking you down! UPDATE: Well done QAZ, you’re spot on. This isn’t an article. You clearly haven’t come across...

The Tippett Quartet, 27th January 2008

Whilst many football fans have their ‘dream team’, I have a dream string quartet, comprising of my favourite musicians and, as of today, one...

‘Wad Words’ Opt-Out

Controversial Wadham zine receives tentative JCR backing

Video: Action Stations Preview

C24's video preview of 50's rock and roll night Action Stations. Read the full column here.Video by Rachel Williams and Helena Zaba.

College Football Division 2: Trinity v. Univ

Trinity 5-2 University  The race for promotion from JCR Division Two took another twist on Friday, as favourites Univ were comprehensively defeated in...

Dead Mother Cabaret

Rating: 3/5 If you don’t think that death, fisting, gang necrophilia rape (which is difficult with a dead body) and your mother’s magic box are...

For One Night Only

A warning, reader: I have a predilection for eavesdropping. As you sip your pint in the K.A.; as you sip your cocktail at the...

Dangerous Liasons

Although Dangerous Liaisons may be best known to many from the 1980s Glenn Close adaptation or it’s more recent incarnation, Cruel Intentions, ...

Lorry Driver Breaks Down at Cyclist Inquest

The driver of the refuse lorry that crushed an Oxford student cyclist broke down yesterday and cried at an inquest into the incident last...

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