Friday 29th August 2025

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Gazan offer holders ‘relieved’ as government approves visas

Oxford University offer holders living in Gaza have told Cherwell that they feel “a deep sense of relief and hope” after the UK Government announced plans to approve visas...
News Conor Walsh and Stanley Smith -

SU launches new community fund for society events

The Oxford University Student Union (SU) is launching a new community fund to support...
News Conor Walsh -

SU Sabbatical Officers urge Government to “remove the barriers” to Gazan students reaching the UK

Sabbatical Officers at the Oxford University Student Union (SU) have signed an open letter...
News Conor Walsh and Arina Makarina -

Lindsay Skoll announced as new Jesus Principal

Jesus College have announced that British diplomat Lindsay Skoll will take up the role...
News Laurence Cooke -
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…while CPS could use Anti-Terrorism Act

The Terrorism Act 2000 could be used by the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) against extreme animal rights activists and organizations. The Terrorism Act made...

Minding the gender gap

There is something quite paradoxical about a place which is one of the leading research centres in the world, where academics are constantly pushing...

Said School to expand

Oxford University has announced the construction of a new research centre focusing on Business Taxation. The centre has received £5 million in funding from...

Saudi ambassador quizzed by PPEists

His Royal Highness Prince Turki al-Faisal of Saudi Arabia spoke in the Oakeshott Room of Lincoln College to an audience of approximately fifty students...

NHS cuts cause fears for student welfare

Oxfordshire’s mental health services have announced cuts in their psychiatric department, leading to criticism by a University psychiatric expert amid concern that this could...

The Brookes boy

I    study publishing here, which is quite a mixed, skills-based course. I applied to this after Eton; it’s a strong basis for going into...

Trinity employs aide to royal houselhold

The former Master of the Household for the Prince of Wales and the Duchess of Cornwall has been appointed by Trinity as its new...

Hilda’s mixed vote

The St Hilda’s JCR has passed a motion to hold a referendum on the issue of the college remaining single sex. The motion passed...

Mistaken identity

The fast train from Paddington allows those not fortunate enough to inhabit our world to get close enough to peer in. They ingest voraciously...

Charitable superpowers get it wrong

Jeffery Sachs, who spoke at the  Oxford Union on Sunday, is the intellectual guru of the ‘Drop the Debt’ campaign and the world’s most...

A very ordinary occupation

On nights spent lounging on the balcony with Maher and Nisreen, sippingon mint tea, drawing apple-infused smoke through the nargila andexchanging conversation – partly...

Obituary of the phone box

ANYONE WHO has ever run out of mobile phone battery at a crucial point in conversation will be aware of the latter day scarcity...

What were Booker judges thinking?

How much a judge of true talent is the Booker prize? Last Monday’sshock triumph of John Banville over Kazuo Ishiguro, Julian Barnes andthe Smiths...

Mystery of the Orient

The Mystery of Empty SpaceAshmolean Museumuntil 16 OctoberThe twentieth century has not been kind to traditional Chinese painting. Its place usurped by the revolutionary...

They’re at it like Were-rabbits

Wallace and Gromit: the Curse of the Were-rabbitCreator Nick Park’s lovable duo hop onto the silver screen this week in their first full-length feature,...

Kinky Boots review

Kinky BootsFor all the complaints about the semi-ghettoisation of British cinema, it often appears closer to its American mainstream counterparts, using the same emotional...

We are reviewing the situation

Theatre criticism, unsurprisingly, offends pretty much everyone involved. The journalist who dares hint at any form of negative opinion is condemned for being narrow-minded...

Poetry slam

Hammer and Tongue, 4 October, The Zodiac: Eddie Izzard told me I should do stand-up”, says Steve Larkin, an Oxford-based performance poet and the...

American pervert

Sexual Perversity in Chicago, 18 to 22 October, Burton Theatre: Mamet doesn’t do unusual. This is normality sped up, with young people loathing each...

Review

Boston Marriage, 18 to 22 October, Burton Taylor: As a playwright noted for his modern masculine writing, Edward Mamet changes direction in Boston Marriage...
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