Thursday 15th January 2026

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EIT Global President Santa Ono elected senior research fellow at Worcester College

Worcester College has elected Professor Santa Ono – the current Global President of the Ellison Institute of Technology (EIT) and President of EIT Oxford – to a senior research...

Farmers block traffic outside Exam Schools to protest minister’s visit

The Environment, Food, and Rural Affairs secretary Emma Reynolds was giving a speech at the Oxford Farming Conference, hosted in the Examination Schools 

£17,000 on grass, redacted files, and 250,000 parcels: Cherwell’s 2025 FOI review

As the Cherwell Investigations team, we take our job very seriously. A big part...

Vice-Chancellor’s pay package rises to £666,000, among highest paid in Russell Group

This represents a 2.5% increase in her base salary, placing her as one of the highest paid Vice-Chancellors across Russell Group universities.

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...

LMH’s Churchillian effort clinches match

Cuppers Tennis LMH 7 - 5 St Johns LMH’s second pair of Rob Churchill and Mark Holmquist held their nerve in a crucial tiebreak...

Hertford not ready to Exet

Sexy football was the order of the day at the third round of the Cuppers 5-a-side football last Thursday this round was definitely less...

Oriel flirts with OUSU’s pants

Oriel students went to the polls yesterday to decide whether or not to re-affiliate to OUSU after three years outside the student union. ...

Rents and RONs stir JCRs to act

In the recent Wadham SU presidential elections, students voted to reopen nominations rather than elect those standing for election. No ostensible reasons for this...

Skanky food sees Chinese fined

An Oxford restaurant has been fined £17,000 for the filthy conditions in which its food was prepared. The Liasion Chinese Restaurant in Castle...

Fire alarms inflame finalists

Angry finalists forced Lincoln College to change the time of the fire drills this week, after discovering that they were planned for 8.50am, half-an-hour...

Flesh eating sex pest

A plastic surgeon has been accused of “serious professional misconduct” this week, after beginning a sexual relationship with one of his patients he was...

Undebatably fashionable

Scantily dressed men and women strutted down the catwalk at the Union last Friday. The hallowed Debating Chamber, filled to capacity with 350 onlookers,...

‘Ruthless’ St John’s

Residents of North Oxford have been protesting vigorously against the property development plans of St John’s, fearing the harmful effect on the community. ...

Bob Dylan expert for poetry Prof

A Bob Dylan expert who has not written a word of poetry since his school days has been elected as Oxford’s new Professor of...

UnAltered student bodies for radio

Altered Radio has launched a cheeky competition as flyers featuring six naked girls were distributed around colleges on Saturday. Entrants are asked to display...

Summers’ a party for LMH

LMH JCR played host to an Anne Summers party last Friday evening, which saw girls perusing the latest lingerie and trying out sexual positions...

Protest for the Oxford two

Animal rights campaigners protested against the University’s plans for a new animal holding facility last Saturday. Demonstrations throughout the week, led by SPEAK,...

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