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.

Faust of the Colonnade

Faust of the Colonnadeis a piece of new writing by David Cochrane. The play is set in the confines of a Don’s room in...

Phraeda’s Love

Seduction, suicide, and sadism: based on a Greek tragedy, Phaedra’s Love has been updated to depict a disturbingly dysfunctional family. Phaedra becomes obsessed by...

Wooden heroes, toy horses, epic flop

Sing, O goddess, the unutterable stinkiness of Troy’s script, son of Benioff, that brought countless ills upon the cinema-going public. Many a brave soul...

Carandiru

Sprawling, overcrowded, dirty and disease-ridden, the monolithic complex of Sao Paulo’s House of Detention, a.k.a. ‘Carandiru’, once Latin America’s largest correctional facility, gained infamy...

In At The Deep End?

The Charlatans have come a long way from their heady indie days in the early ‘90s. Coming after a year’s hiatus, Up at the...

The Twilight Samurai

Lauded by numerous international film festivals and winner of 12 Japanese Oscars, Twilight Samurai arrives on our shores with impressive credentials. Treading similar ground...

Live: Denison Witmer

When the background music ceased and the speakers rang with a clean, open strum, no one at the bar knew what to do. Was...

Kathryn Williams: Relations

The new album from Kathryn Williams is something of a disappointment. After the gloriously melancholic Old Low Light, Relations – an album of covers...

Graham Coxon: Happiness in Magazines

Since, in his typically understated style, bespectacled guitarist Graham Coxon walked out on Blur, there has been a year-long holding of breath to see...

Out of the Blue: The International Men of Mystery

I associate the dreaming spires of Oxford with Gregorian chants and boys’ choirs. Until I heard Out of the Blue, I was sceptical that...

M J Hayland: How the Light Gets in

There is something about the coming-of-age story that never grows old. While some writers have transformed the tale of adolescence into either sentimental kitsch...

Michael Faber Under The Skin

Faber’s first novel tears away protective layers of propriety, leaving the flesh and bone of society quivering and in full view. The realisation that...

Trebles all round for Oxford

Varsity Athletics The 130th match against Cambridge was characterised by strong performances on both the track and the field, culminating in victory for the...

Stearn shows no Varsity nervous Tics

Varsity Seconds Cricket Cambridge Crusaders 241/9 Oxford Authentics 242/5 A dogged unbeaten hundred from all-rounder Chris Stearn, a veteran of an incredible ten...

Gale Grant only Shields Oxford pain

Women’s Cricket After a superb victory against Cambridge in April, the fortunes of the Oxford women’s cricket side took a tumble, as weather and...

Oxford refuse to hibernate

Blues Rugby The bulk of the season may be over, but for the Blues rugby side, this week has brought a starting amount of...

Cambridge stay on target

Varsity Archery Cambridge 3417 Oxford 3187 In ideal conditions on the backs of St. John’s College, Cambridge, Oxford University Company of Archers put...

A breeze for LMH

Sailing Cuppers LMH, starting out as pre event favourites, held their composure and secured their first sailing cuppers win in recent years. Fourteen college...

Don’t mix your drinkers

Outraged Oriel students have rallied round their college staff in a confrontation over whether they should be allowed to drink at the college bar....

Teenage girl raped on way to school

A teenage girl has been savagely raped while walking to school in Oxford. Thames Valley Police have appealed for witnesses and urged all women...

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