News

Plans for new Oxford graduate college approved

Oxford City Council has approved plans for a new postgraduate medical college in Headington. The plans also include a mental health hospital and a modern facility for brain sciences research, forming a new Warneford Park development centred on mental health and brain research.

News Angelina Wu -

Union President-Elect found guilty of electoral fraud by Tribunal

Catherine Xu, the Oxford Union’s President-Elect for Michaelmas 2026, has been permanently barred from holding office at the Society after an Election Tribunal found that she orchestrated a scheme to impersonate legitimate voters at the Hilary Term 2026 election.

News Cherwell News -

Oxford research changes scientists’ understanding of the development of complex life

A collaborative study by researchers from the University of Oxford’s Museum of Natural History and Oxford’s Department of Earth Science, alongside experts from Yunnan University in China, has shown that complex animal life developed earlier than previously thought.

News Stanley Arlidge -

Honorary Degree recipients announced for 2026

The University of Oxford has announced its 2026 honorary degree recipients, with seven individuals to be conferred with degrees at the Encaenia ceremony on 24th June.

News Ilya Rosenbaum -

Leave the bin outside

In the first week of this term, Cherwellprinted the sorry tale of Brian Butterworth, first-year psychology student at Merton, who was sent "into digs"...

A-list gluttony

Natives of LA love to complain about it: the pollution, the superficial, fastpaced lifestyle, the total lack of history and culture. These people live...

Bored this Trinity? Try… Tortoise Racing

Blithering on about how wonderful summer is seems to be a major vocation in Oxford. The cliché of ‘Pimm’s, punting and parties’ is hardly...

Dirty Pretty Films

If you had to use one word to describe the work Stephen Frears, it would be eclectic. A director whose films resist easy classification,...

Great Sex-pectations

Most of us women tend to think that we’re emancipated, modern creatures. We drink, drive, smoke, have casual sex, and do all those other...

The Opposite of Sex?

Sex is Comedy, says a recent film by Catherine Breillat, which tells of the crude bodily mechanics of actors trying to recreate the passion...

No love loss

"Sex without love”, Woody Allen said, “is a meaningless experience; but as meaningless experiences go it’s a pretty good one.” University is an excellent...

Chatting Up… Peter Bradshaw

Name one film everyone should see. The Addiction, by Abel Ferrara. This is a seriously weird, creepy and brilliant movie about vampires starring Christopher...

More sex please, we’re British

Vice is the order of the day as Oxford’s theatres shamelessly ‘sex up’ their repertoire, in an attempt to banish the Fifth Week blues....

Sex for America Double Bill

Judging by the tabloid-esque advertising for this production (the poster looks like something from the Daily Star), I was expecting this double bill of...

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...

1...447448449...472 Page 448 of 472

Follow us

Support Student Journalism

Cherwell is Oxford’s oldest independent newspaper, established in 1920. We are entirely student-run. By supporting us, you will contribute to keeping our paper in print and online. Every donation makes a difference.

Explore

Follow us

More

Oxford Student Publications Limited © 2025 - All Rights Reserved | Privacy Policy

Website by Jamie Ashley