Monday 15th June 2026

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Bangladesh July Revolution leaders speak at Oxford Union as protesters clash outside

Protesters clashed outside the Oxford Union this evening during a panel discussion organised by the Oxford Bangla Society on the 2024 Bangladeshi July Revolution, entitled “The Student-Led Uprising and...

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.

And Now for Something Completely Different

Oxford, the site of so many significant scientific discoveries, is the perfect place for a History of Science Museum. Largely ignored despite its prominent...

Something is rotten in the state of Oxford drama

An open letter to Oxford University Dramatic Society from Oxford’s theatre-going audience: Get over yourselves.  Earlier this term, Cherwell stage editor Rob Morgan, in...

President Kufour

By Sarah KentJohn Kofi Agyekun Kufuor, President of Ghana, arrived at the Union with fully twenty dignitaries and journalists in tow. It was an...

Far right call to arms against Union protests

Far right groups have called for a campaign targeting students who demonstrate against Nick Griffin and David Irving’s appearances at the Oxford Union in...

Flip Side: Casual Sex

Rebecca Lacey warns of the dangers of irresponsible sexWhat springs to mind when you think of casual sex? Drunken fumbling at the Bridge leading...

Major black access scheme launched

US CIVIL RIGHTS leader and former presidential nominee Reverend Jesse Jackson has warned that the an increased drive to encourage applications from black students...

Exeter mourns loss of two freshers

EXETER COLLEGE is in mourning following the sudden deaths of two first-year students on Monday. Sundeep Watts and Harcourt ‘Olly’ Tucker died within 48...

Why are we lazy?

By Edward Parker When it comes to going that extra mile, many people rise honourably to the challenge but, truth be told, the rest of us...

Oxford graduate named ‘Man at the Top’

A FORMER Oxford student has been crowned Young Entrepreneur of the Year in Esquire magazine’s ‘Man at the Top’ business awards. Charlie Osmond, 30,...

Oxford Revue: Fear

 Dir. Tom Meltzer. OFS 7.30pm Tues-Sat; 2.30pm Sat; 7th Week I’ve spent a lot of time laughing lately, and my face hurts. Further, the realisation...

Competition launched for young entrepreneurs

AN ANNUAL competition for potential Oxford entrepreneurs relaunched on Tuesday, offering a substantial cash prize that could total millions of pounds.Last year’s winners of...

Ethical Clothing

By Rhian Harris The recent news that an item of children’s clothing had been produced for the high-street clothing store Gap using forced child labour...

Animal extremists target academics

ANIMAL rights extremists have claimed responsibility for an arson attack after two Oxford scientists’ cars were set alight earlier this month.On 9 November, an...

Ministry of Mirth

 Wheatsheaf Pub, High Street 8.00pm, Tuesdays, Odd WeeksJokes about paedophilia always go down well. Niall Gildea, the MC at Ministry of Mirth last Tuesday,...

Ailing Tory Reform Group to merge with OUCA

OXFORD’S Tory Reform Group looks set to disband and merge with OUCA after the President-Elect resigned last week.President-Elect Thomas Hardman said that the Conservative...

Big Brother: Raising the Bar

By Jack Marley-Payne A visit to the college bar is halfway up the stepladder that joins sitting in your room with your balls out drinking...

How to be a college celebrity

By Thea Warren To be a celebrity is to be known by people whom you do not know. To be so fascinatingly well known that...

Stage Whispers: Light and Sound

We are known variously as technical managers or technical directors but in truth technical ambassador is more accurate. We scribble authoritatively on bits of...

Death of the Reader

 Emily Packer peruses the problems of reading for pleasure as an Oxford studentI have been at Oxford only seven weeks, but as a fresher...

Elen Griffiths takes exception to trivia collection Toujours Tango

by Elen GriffithsI am hunting for an impossible word. It is ‘Tantenverführer,’ which literally means ‘aunt-seducer’. I pound through dictionaries, trawl internet translators, then...

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