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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.

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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”.

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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.

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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.

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Don rejects PM’s stance on cannabis

An Oxford pharmacologist has attacked the government’s plans to upgrade cannabis to a class B drug, ignoring directions not to speak to journalists.Professor Les...

Entrapment cannot stop rape

Oxford Sexual Abuse and Rape Crisis Centre (OSARCC) welcomes any move to open the debate on improving the ways in which the police investigate...

Omkar makes last-ditch bid for Presidency

Krishna Omkar has proposed a change to Union rules that would see his lifetime ban from running in elections lifted, allowing him to run...

Fair Access body demands Oxford mentoring for 11 year-olds

The debate over applications to Oxbridge has flared up again after a government proposal suggested that potential state-school candidates should be identified at age...

Summoning up the ghosts of Pakistani politics

There was one grave and two candidates. It was either Bhutto or Gen Zia and since Gen Zia had the whip hand he got...

Editorial: The life aquatic?

An historic medieval city, its crumbling foundations shored up by endless restoration work and a tourist industry oblivious to its real concerns and studious...

Community service for drunk skinny dippers

Police rescued three LMH students from the river near Park End Street last Thursday night, after they had apparently decided to go skinny dipping...

Gay students targeted again in attack at Coven

Three Oxford students were victims of what is thought to have been a homophobic attack outside Coven II last Friday. The incident is the...

No Platform referendum stalls

OUSU’s referendum on its controversial ‘No Platform’ policy could be scrapped after Council postponed a vote on the issue last week.The debate surrounding OUSU’s...

Freudian slip of the week

Renate Künast, co-leader of the Greens in Germany, was making a parliamentary speech and quoted a piece the political columnist Hugo Müller-Vogg had written...

First Night Review: Edward II, OFS ***

For a modernised setting of a Renaissance play to work, the adaptation must do more than simply court the ‘r’-word – ‘relevance’ for a...

CD review: Bartok: String Quartets Nos. 1-6

Belcea QuartetEMI Classics4/5‘A keystone of the chamber repertoire’, says the Observer’s Anthony Holden of Bartok’s six string quartets, which are less than one-hundred years...

Blues athlete of the week: Anthony Bradley

Name: Anthony BradleyClub: Oxford University Rugby League Football ClubCollege:UniversityYear: 2nd Year ChemistPosition: PropQ: What's the highlight of your Blues career thus far?A: The tour...

Concert review: Poems from a foreign land

James Gilchrist, tenor Anna Tilbrook, pianoAs a singer myself, songs in a foreign language always present challenges. Not only are there tricky pronunciations to...

Torch-lit Holocaust Memorial March Through Oxford Scheduled for Sunday

Oxford University’s Jewish Society and the Aegis Society , a grassroots movement against genocide, will organize and sponsor a torch-lit march through Oxford city-center...

Tom’s Blog: TV Licence Totalitarian Scam Shame

by Tom Carpenter, Deputy Editor, C24A comment and opinion articleImagine my horror yesterday morning when, dehydratedly fighting my way out of my room in...

“Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again”

Unlike Daphne du Maurier’s heroine, I really had been back to my abandoned chateau. Just last week, I was back in Oxford for the...

Why Goethe should be banned from German degrees

It's a health and safety risk. As Times columnist Daniel Finkelstein points out on Comment Central:Goethe’s novel Die Leiden des jungen Werthers (The Sorrows...

Naked Actress Parades the Streets of Oxford

A naked actress paraded through the streets of Oxford yesterday evening for the premiere of the new Lady Godiva film.Libby Jewson, who plays a...

Book Review: Lust, Caution, by Eileen Chang

(Penguin Classics; translated into English for the first time)From the flashes of diamond-clad fingers at the mah-jong table of the collaborating political elite, to...

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