Sunday 7th September 2025

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Oxford Union sued for editing Susan Abulhawa’s speech

The European Legal Support Center (ELSC) has filed a discrimination claim against the Oxford Union on behalf of Susan Abulhawa, Palestinian-American writer and activist. According to ELSC, the Union...

Protests outside Oxford asylum hotel as campaigners call for unity and compassion

Around 50 protesters from Stand Up to Racism (SUTR) and other local groups gathered...

Gazan offer holders ‘relieved’ as government approves visas

Oxford University offer holders living in Gaza have told Cherwell that they feel “a...

SU launches new community fund for society events

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

Bored this summer? Try… Bicester Village

Like reading Vogue? Shop for clothes at GAP and Next although you’d prefer to wear Karen Millen outfits? Sounds like massive desire suppression to...

Euro Vision

We are forever told, through government initiatives, race equality organisations and indeed much mainstream liberal media, that an acceptance of ethnic and cultural diversity...

Ex-Pat-Riotism

Racism is a word that gets bandied about a lot nowadays. And with good reason. It seems as though, despite years of PR about...

Being Jordan – Katie Price

Nowadays, the innocent appreciation of the breast is a limited practice at best, excluded from popular culture and forcefully confined to pervy Scouse readers...

Chatting Up…Tony Hadley

When you are on tour do you have any bizarre backstage/ dressing room requests or superstitions that you’d like to tell us about? I...

Mamet’s mammoth masterpiece

American Buffalo @ OFS Arrogance is prolific in the thespian world of Oxford, in both character and production. Though in productions of real quality...

The Wind in the Willows

Pimms, punting and plays – what more could you ask for from summertime in Oxford? This year’s Trinity Lawns Play combines children’s classic and...

Stitching

Stitching challenges the selfishness which lies at the core of its young couple. At the same time, it creates empathy which makes its occasional...

This is our Youth

Transported from New York to London, this play depicts the troubled lives of three youths of the 1980s: Warren (Ferdie Addis) and Dennis (Angus...

Ambition, lies, and (good) fake photos

Don’t believe everything you read in the papers, the old adage goes. Or, if it appeared in the hugely influential American politics mag The...

Bad Education

Bad Education @ Phoenix Pedro Almodóvar’s latest film on sex, religion, and abuse is unlike anything you will see in the coming months. In...

The Saddest Music in the World

First things first: don’t let the title deceive you. This may be a movie about melancholia, but it’s also an absolute riot; hugely inventive...

In Need of Divine Aid

Faithless No Roots Out 7 June Before we start, there’s something I have to share: Maxi Jazz does something to me. And no, this...

Live: Kathryn Williams @ The Zodiac

Reviewers have described Kathryn Williams voice as ‘delicate’ and ‘ethereal’; physically she is much more corporeal. This was just one of the anomalies that...

Jesse Malin: The Heat

Ryan Adams does get around. In addition to his four solo albums in three years, Adams is also responsible for a tongue-incheek, punk-thrash album...

The Futureheads: Self-titled

Before reaching for the play button on your stereo, you would be correct in thinking you are about to listen to an understated, ‘lets-just-give-it-ago-...

Village PErson: Singing Persian Brides

A split watermelon. Ripe and bursting, its seeds spilling out of its flesh. Women singing, talking, sifting rice. A wedding has passed, another is...

Begdorf Blondes – Plum Sykes

If you scorn fashion and designer names, disdain the Bridge on a Thursday night, and prefer Marks and Spenser’s to Harrods, avoid this book...

Cambridge stunned in Parks

Oxford emerged from the dressing room after tea on day two in the knowledge that their first innings had already won the match and...

Oriel begin Summer Eights with sweet revenge

Wednesday’s Rowing by Elaina Evans After controversy over entries and a very tough rowing-on contest last Friday, it was a relief to see Summer...

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