Profiles

Lord Burrows: “If you can’t explain this area of the law to an intelligent teenager, you don’t really understand it yourself.”

Andrew Burrows, Lord Burrows is a Justice of the UK Supreme Court and one of the country’s leading legal scholars specialising in contract and unjust enrichment law. Prior to...

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Jonathan Coe: ‘We’ve thrown the baby out with the bathwater big time by embracing neoliberalism’

Jonathan Coe is a novelist and writer. He graduated from Trinity College, Cambridge, and...

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Billie Marten on growing, teenage regression, and her upcoming album Dog Eared

“When people listen to your upcoming album Dog Eared, where should they imagine you...

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Max Morgan, director of Oxford’s first feature film since the 1980s

Morgan speaks to Cherwell about his forthcoming films Breakwater and May Day!, and how he built a career in the film industry while at Oxford.

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“Being delusional is the best form of therapy”: In conversation with Mia Khalifa

At 17:35 on May 3rd, I received an email from the Oxford Union Press that in about 2 hours I would be interviewing Mia...

“They used greasepaint on me as a foundation”: In conversation with British actress Llewella Gideon

Llewella Gideon is a British actress, comedian and writer best known for Absolutely Fabulous, a TV series from 1992 to 2012, and The Little...

“I was told never to tell this story”: In conversation with journalist, Suzanne Kianpour

Suzanne Kianpour is a Foreign Affairs journalist whose work has taken her to over 50 countries. She has reported in war zones and followed...

“It’s about having the courage to say what you mean”: In conversation with Gwyneth Lewis

Gwyneth Lewis is the former National Poet of Wales, the first writer to be given the Welsh laureateship and was recently appointed Member of...

“It’s 99% politics and 1% law”. In conversation with Stella Assange.

The battle to free one of the most wanted men in the world, Julian Assange, founder of WikiLeaks, has a passionate, dedicated champion in...

“I just like having the stuff”: In conversation with the ‘Crockery Crook’

In the Hilary term of 2023, Oxford was whipped into a frenzy. The trend of the term is what could you get away with...

Music and Cosplay: In conversation with MAKO Girl and cosplayer, A-Ni Ochoa

Cosplay, a portmanteau of ‘costume play’, is an activity and performance art where in which participants wear costumes to represent a specific character. The...

In conversation with Oxford’s most iconic kebab vans

The first pioneering kebab van, Ali’s, cowboy parked on the curbs of 1980s Oxford without a permit, serving students midnight feasts until the police...

In conversation with Barney Mayhew

Barney Mayhew is an expert in conflict and humanitarian aid. He served in the armed forces for four years in Cyprus, Germany, Namibia and Northern...

In conversation with Luca Guadagnino

Obviously you’re in a very student-dominated space, so we were going to start by asking about your series ‘We Are Who We Are’. How...

“There’s a lot of men out there that should’ve been hugged more by their dads”: In conversation with Maisie Adam

If you’d told me a couple of years ago that I’d get the chance to sit down with a comedic hero of mine, I...

An Evening with Bret Easton Ellis

Queue Blondie, Duran Duran. And in theaters? The Shining. Apocalypse Now. The Shards is the novel Bret Easton Ellis wanted to write when he was a senior in...

Behind the scenes with Oxford’s queens

Oxford, like much of the UK, has experienced the phenomenon of drag over the last few years. The unprecedented success of RuPaul’s Drag Race...

“The Ants & The Grasshopper”: Meet environmentalist filmmaker Raj Patel

Food security has long been one of the most pertinent issues arising from the climate crisis. With the global environment changing immensely and countries...

“You write things and get lucky”: In conversation with screenwriter John Hodge

Although you may not know John’s name, you’ll certainly know his work. Having written the screenplays for Trainspotting, The Beach, A Life Less Ordinary,...

“All it takes is one yes”: In conversation with Sian Eleri

It’s a rainy January day and I’m sitting alone in my room, anxiously scrutinising my face on Zoom as I wait for Sian Eleri...

Art is a form of “resistance”: In conversation with Liu Wei at the Oxford Union

Pioneering artist Liu Wei gave an exclusive interview at the Oxford Union as part of the Union’s Michaelmas Art Festival on the weekend of...

“We didn’t do Blackface, but you could argue that we did”: Mathew Baynton on Horrible Histories, type-casting, and his acting career

On November 23rd, Mathew Baynton visited the Oxford Union. There was a frenzy of excitement around his attendance, with members queuing from 5:30pm to...

“Do you want to be a leader or a follower?”: In conversation with Claire Adler

Practically all of us have, at some point, been unsure about where we’re headed after university. It’s certainly not an anxiety that’s unique to...

“Some people claim a right not to be offended. And I think that’s unfortunate.” Vice-Chancellor Professor Louise Richardson in conversation with Cherwell

Serving since January 2016, Professor Louise Richardson’s term as Vice-Chancellor comes to an end this year. The first female vice-chancellor, presiding over a significant...

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Profiles

Lord Burrows: “If you can’t explain this area of the law to an intelligent teenager, you don’t really understand it yourself.”

Jonathan Coe: ‘We’ve thrown the baby out with the bathwater big time by embracing neoliberalism’

Billie Marten on growing, teenage regression, and her upcoming album Dog Eared

Max Morgan, director of Oxford’s first feature film since the 1980s

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