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Oxford Union election count suspended amid electoral fraud allegations

he Oxford Union’s Trinity Term 2026 election count has been suspended after the Returning Officer identified substantial evidence of interference, before any ballot boxes were opened.

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Mansfield College redevelopment plans approved by Oxford City Council

Oxford City Council unanimously approved Mansfield College’s development plans on Tuesday, 26th May. The project, known as the Estate Transformation Project, will be delivered by architects Feilden Fowles. Mansfield told Cherwell that the development would “provide students and the College with up-to-date facilities they need for generations to come”.

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Oxford Union town hall TT26: Meet the candidates

With polls set to open for Oxford Union elections tomorrow, Friday 12th June, Cherwell spoke to the candidates running to be President in Hilary Term 2027. Milo Donovan and Prajwal Pandey discussed their vision for the society, the challenges facing the Union, and how they would respond to recent controversies surrounding speaker invitations and free speech.

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Oxford law academic cancels lecture series on sex and gender following protests

Dr Michael Foran, Associate Professor of Law and Fellow of Keble College, has cancelled the remaining lectures in a series on sex, gender identity, and the law, following protests at two of the events.

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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...

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...

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...

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...

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