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New College JCR President loses no-confidence motion four weeks before end of term

President of New College JCR Harry Aldridge was removed from office late last night in a motion of no-confidence.

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Sheldonian Series concludes for academic year with panel on the power of satire

The 2025-2026 Sheldonian Series ended on Wednesday 20th May with a panel discussion on the power, use, and limits of political satire. Held in the Sheldonian Theatre, the event brought together leading figures from British comedy and public commentary to reflect on satire’s role in the current political moment.

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Oxford study warns ‘friendly’ AI chatbots are more likely to mislead users

AI models trained to seem warm and empathetic make significantly more errors, and are far more likely to agree with users even when they're wrong, according to new research published in Nature by Oxford Internet Institute (OII) researchers Lujain Ibrahim and Luc Rocher.

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Oxford SU to hold referendum on NUS membership

At a Conference of Commons Room (CCR) vote concluding on 20th May, JCR and MCR presidents voted to hold a referendum on the Student Union’s (SU) membership of the National Union of Students (NUS).

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Shiny Happy Models

The Oxford glitterati were out last Friday, stalking the Union pathways like a catwalk. The reason? UFO (Unique Fashionable Objects), showcasing young graduate designers...

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...

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