Wednesday 29th July 2026

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Milo Donovan wins Oxford Union Presidency after suspended vote count

Milo Donovan has been declared the winner of the election for Oxford Union President in Hilary Term 2027, after the Union released the result of last term's suspended vote count. Donovan, whose campaign pledges included banning hack messages, was last term’s treasurer.

King Charles III inaugurates the Schwarzman Centre 

King Charles III officially opened the Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities and unveiled a plaque to commemorate his visit.

Jacinda Ardern and eight others awarded with honorary degrees

The recipients include former New Zealand Prime Minister Dame Jacinda Ardern; actress and theatre director Adjoa Andoh MBE; and literary critic and host of Finding Your Roots Henry Louis Gates Jr.

Tommy Robinson’s invitation to Oxford Union met with protest: Live updates

Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, otherwise known as Tommy Robinson, is due to speak at the Oxford Union at 8.30 pm this evening at a debate on the motion “This House Believes the West is Right to be Suspicious of Islam”. The event has drawn condemnation from University societies, local politicians, and local faith leaders.

‘Big Damn Movie’ on the Big Damn Screen: Firefly / Serenity at the UPP

I’ve just heard that some members of OU staff are screening the feature-length pilot of Joss Whedon’s show Firefly at the Ultimate Picture Palace...

The Writing on the Wall

Graffiti currently covers most international cities’ public surfaces and urban scrawl can even be seen deep into the suburbs and country villages. Yet debates...

Feature: The "Mile" High Club

t’s that time of the year again. Thesps all over Oxford are frantically scouring the OUDS website in search of a ‘free’ ticket to...

Aeneid: The Musical

Aeneid: The Musical is thigh-slapping, hearty, old-fashioned nerdy fun. The classics department’s jolly panto is high-brow slapstick; it’s not veering into the sub-terrain of...

The Balcony

Trinity 8th Week has got to be the elephant’s graveyard of serious drama. All the big productions with your Chanyas and your Charlies have...

The Government Inspector

Set in Tsarist Russia, this fast-moving, almost corybantic comedy of errors extols the energy of a Carry On and farcical irony of an episode...

Product

For those of you who believe that a play marketing itself as a "monologue for two" smacks of typical Oxford pretention, go against your...

I Once Was Lost

Film enthusiasts call a film once thought to be lost and subsequently recovered a ‘Lazarus film’, after the distinctly dead man whom the Good...

Ocean’s 13

It’s back again. Following the logical pattern of increasing numbers (i.e. counting), we now have Ocean’s Thirteen. Perhaps Ron Howard should have used the...

Taking Liberties

The government doesn’t want you to watch this film. You might get ideas. You might get angry. Or at least, Chris Atkins hopes so....

Chumscrubber

This film tells the story of a revenge kidnapping amongst a group of teenagers whose drug dealer commits suicide. Jamie Bell stars as the...

The Music Manifesto

In 2005, DCMS (the Department for Culture, Media and Sport) commissioned a campaign, ‘The Music Manifesto,’ with an agenda of revolutionising the teaching of...

Simon Reynolds

Simon Reynolds last featured in Cherwell way back in 1983 when, along with fellow students and future colleagues David Stubbs and Paul Oldfield, he...

An End Has a Start – Editors

Editors walked a fine line. Plagiarisers in extremis? Spirit-channelling musical mediums? Fiery flashes in the notorious indie pan? First album ‘The Back Room’ went...

Funf – Clinic

‘Funf’ collates ten years’ worth of the Liverpool band’s ‘B-sides and rarities’ into something of a diverse collection. Clinic recycle the clichés of their...

Maximo Park ‘Secret’ Gig

This is one of those corporate things which normally we’d shy away from acknowledging - part of Vodafone’s ‘Live Music Campaign,’ according to their...

Harvey the hero as Wadham collapse

he misfiring Keble XI finally registered a victory in the league in a topsy-turvy tussle with Wadham.Keble captain, Peter Bolton, won the toss and...

Single set seals Hilda’s Cuppers victory

There are a number of elements which comprise women’s tennis at it’s best, with short skirts, grunting and a gloriously sunny day all up...

Penalties Stu much for old rivals

On Saturday the hacks from St Aldates and Frewin Court laid down their notebooks and put on their football kits for the traditional end...

BUSA Blues for Oxford?

A quick question for you: what links Edinburgh, Nottingham and UWIC? Answer: according to the BUSA league table, they’re all better than Oxford at...

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