Thursday 1st January 2026

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£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 of what we do is Freedom of Information (FOI) requests – which allow us to...

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

The University of Oxford’s Vice-Chancellor, Professor Irene Tracey, received a total pay package of...

Oxford Town Hall flies Palestine flag for Ramallah Mayor visit

Oxford City Council flew the flag of Palestine from the Town Hall last week...

Worcester College Provost made Labour peer in the House of Lords

Worcester College Provost David Isaac has been appointed to the House of Lords as...

Into the Minds of Serial Killers

It’s an age old question: what influences a person’s character? Is it nature or nurture? In a new book released this week Helen Morrison,...

Greed, Cuban style

As we belt down the autopista from Jose Marti airport towards Havana centre, crammed into our Soviet-built red taxi, this long hidden corner of...

Bored this Trinity? Try… Port Meadow

Summer is here (finally). Time to join every other Oxford student in the University Parks. For those of you who enjoy spending your afternoon...

Private Eye for the Satire Guy

Private Eye raises hell. Always has done – it’s been sued more times than anyone can count and provides much weekly amusement, from titters...

Basic Instincts

Phobias are, by definition, irrational fears, though it would seem that some are more irrational than others. A fear of heights on the top...

The Pride of Britain?

There are very few things that are seriously wrong with Britain at the moment. OK, so the weather might be crap, the food nowhere...

Chatting up: Jonathon Gornall

How did you get into journalism? Slogged my way through local papers from the age of 21, sleeping with anybody who could help me...

Conversations After a Burial

If asked to name a play by Yasmina Reza, surely every avid theatregoer would suggest Art, the play that achieved global success in the...

On the lookout for the genuine article

The difficulty in verbalising emotion, that holy grail of lovers romantic and refined, to enunciate a feeling so acutely felt, is evidenced both in...

Alice

If the idea of an actor dressed in a tailcoat covered in Jammy Dodgers intrigues you, then you should go and see Alice. A...

An Ideal Husband

Take one perennial play of the English tradition, stage it in the beautiful surroundings of the oldest college in Oxford, and watch the magic...

Morning after the Boogie Night before

There’s no doubt about it; John Holmes was big. He made over 2,000 films during his career and, aided in no small way by...

Van Helsing

Never is a cinematic experience more depressing than when the mobile phone advert at the beginning of the film is the best thing about...

Wondrous Oblivion

Paul Morrison’s first film, 1999’s Solomon and Gaenor, was a tragedy about an Orthodox Jew’s illicit affair with a miner’s daughter in the impoverished...

Pope of Mope Returns

Morrissey, ex-frontman of The Smiths, returns for his first album in seven years with impeccable timing – all the hottest new bands express their...

Live: Supergrass

Despite this being their first home-coming gig for some time, it was a pretty unhyped event. Inside the venue, there were true Supergrass fans...

White Light Motorcade: Thank you, Goodnight

While it’s one thing to have influences in the music industry, it is quite another to wear them as proudly as White Light Motorcade...

Mull Historical Society: This is Hope

Colin Macintyre (aka Mull Historical Society) pleads “I’m not cool anymore, stay with me honey” on the opening track, ‘Peculiar’, of third studio album...

Nelson’s Columns: A Blindman’s Bluffs

Let’s be honest, most people never venture further than Europe. When the cheap spirit of wanderlust awakens, a group trip (courtesy of Easyjet) to...

Lonely Planet: Africa on a Shoestring

Let’s be honest, most people never venture further than Europe. When the cheap spirit of wanderlust awakens, a group trip (courtesy of Easyjet) to...

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