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.

Film Review: In Memory of Me

by Kristen DiLemnoIn the stark halls of an Italian monastery, selfhood and spirituality are locked in a silent battle. Directed by Saverio Costanzo, In...

Album review: Sigur Ros, Hvarf-Heim

*** After the well-earned success of 2005’s Takk (off the back of Planet Earth-soundtracking song ‘Hoppípolla’), many bands would have sought to cement their status...

Genre Bending: Tango

Tango music belongs, for most of us, in a completely different world. It conjures images of dark cafés, hot latin summers and a dance...

Film Review: Air Guitar Nation

by Chris CoolingAir guitar is weird. That is the first thing that you will think on watching this docu-film. All of us are probably...

Stage Whispers: The Flyerer

‘Flyering’ consists simply of any act which gets a postcard-sized advert into the hands of an unwitting potential customer. However, this simple cross between...

Live review: Jeffrey Lewis

Earlier this year New York anti-folkster Jeffrey Lewis recorded a covers album based on the work of the British anarcho-punk band Crass. Incongruous as...

The fall of party power?

The University goes to the polls on Thursday, and students will decide the future of an organisation that has drawn equal amounts of applause...

Drama Review: The Duchess of Malfi

by Sam PritchardThe Duchess of Malfi is a play about unpleasant people. This is something that could quite easily be upstaged by the sheer...

The Gospel according to OUSU, chapter one…

The Student Union elections reach biblical proportions.  

OUSU Election

These are the four candidates vying for the most important student position in Oxford. On Thursday of 6th Week, thousands from across the University...

Drama Review: Mindgame

by Sophie DuncanMost of us know the disappointment and irritation felt, when, approaching the final page of a mystery novel, the author produces a...

Tainted money

OXFORD University has accepted a scholarship endowment from a Japanese corporation that used prisoner-of-war slave labour during the Second World War.Student groups have attacked...

Album review: The Wombats, A guide to love, loss, and desperation

***What to make of The Wombats? Just another NME chart-topping, animal-loving band from up North? Just another bunch of floppy-haired indie kids sporting hoodies...

Lewis Iwu penalised for dirty campaign tactics in OUSU race

OUSU Presidential front-runner Lewis Iwu’s campaign actively attempted to seek out information in order to defame another candidate, the Returning Officer ruled on Wednesday.Iwu’s...

Glittering Prizes

by Sophie Duncan Dancing girls, confetti and pyrotechnics: Spamalot is the rising star of Big Theatre, dwarfed only by the all-singing, all-dancing, unassailable barricades...

Fine for Bailey after Iwu affiliation slur

Labour Club candidate Olivia Bailey was penalised on Wednesday for presenting a misleading statement about a rival candidate on her personal website.Dissatisfaction with the...

Quod

Quod is one of those places that just oozes sophistication. I remember coming up to Oxford a year a go and thinking that, thanks...

Bedbug invasion forces out finalists

Students at St Catherine’s have become victims of an infestation of blood-sucking bed bugs that allegedly appeared during the summer.The invasion of parasites has...

Drama Review: Mojo

by Ben LaffertyOxford theatre doesn’t do much for the lads. Softly spoken aesthetes of delicate temperament get their weekly doses of inner turmoil and...

Drama Review: Laughtracks

by Sarah DaviesDespite its title, Tom Costello’s newest play is anything but a laughing matter. Set in a dystopian not-too-distant future, the audience is...

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