Thursday 28th 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...
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SU launches new community fund for society events

The Oxford University Student Union (SU) is launching a new community fund to support...
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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...
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Festival that launched a thousand ships

It’s been coming together for nearly two years, but the finished product is now upon us. The Oxford Greek Festival, brainchild of Avery Willis...

The Honey Trap

Once upon a time there were three little girls. They grew up to be three very different women but they had three things in...

Something Beginning With

Someone once wrote a novel without any words containing the letter E in it. There is also a novel written in 26 chapters, with...

Chinese Silk

Forfeiting my integrity and honesty while affecting a smile of interest, I agreed to review this exhibition. I mean come on, anyone without grey...

Worcester’s hats off to Hobbs

Worcester’s Jan Hobbs scored a hat-trick in the final of the Lacrosse Cuppers to sew up victory against a Hertford side which had shown...

Squash girls well Shielded

The Ladies Blues Squash team finished off their season in style on Thursday night in the Finals of the Oxfordshire County Championships. After...

Coming up… Blues Cricket Preview

With cricket written off this week by the dreadful weather, Oxford’s various sides will be itching to get out in to the middle, with...

Hall finds reserves of strength to crush Pembroke

Though Somerville’s first eleven captured the headlines following their 3-0 cuppers victory over pre-match favourites Wadham, the second eleven cuppers tournament proved no less...

Fourberries out of ten? No, at least an eight

French farce returns to Oxford this week with La Compagnie Molière d’Oxford performing ’Les Fourberies de Scapin’ at Wadham’s Moser theatre. The rarity of...

Getting Angry in Egypt

Nestled on the Red Sea coast against the stunning backdrop of the Sinai mountain range, Sharm El Sheikh is heralded as the jewel of...

Eat: Le Petit Blanc

Le Petit Blanc71-2 Walton StreetWhen hunting for a French dish, it is all too easy to dive on to Little Clarendon Street and settle...

Filming with the Devil

It’s an old story: wife has affair, husband catches pair ‘in flagrante delicto’ and violently murders them, before fleeing for his life. Perhaps not....

Scraping De Botton of the Barrel

Open a newspaper, turn on your television or walk into a bookstore and there is a high chance you’ll encounter Alain de Botton: a...

All or Nothing

As vices go, nothing gets the adrenal glands pumping quite as much as gambling. Thoughts of vats of chocolate and gallons of liquor might...

The Art of Procrastination

Salivating at the delicious prospect of Cherwell’s unveiling of the dark, seedy underbelly of Oxford? We always knew it was there, just under the...

Chatting Up… The Stills

Can you summarise The Stills’ sound for the uninitiated? Our sound is probably romantic pop-rock; melodic with lots of big choruses. What’s your...

Greece is the Word for Trinity Term

This week, The Oxford Playhouse plays host to an epic tale of war, the fall of a great city and the power of the...

The Critic – O’Reilly Theatre, Keble

It is with some trepidation that one reviews The Critic, a play which ridicules the very occupation of theatre reviewing. Sheridan does not, however,...

Love of the Nightingale – BT Early

Rape, violence, murder, jealousy and tongues being cut out may not be the ideal night out, but Love of the Nightingale (Wertenbaker) is a...

Tarantino Proves Thur-man once more

Kill Bill Vol. 2 Phoenix & Odeon No single figure in recent years has influenced the world of movie-making as resoundingly as Mr Tarantino....
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