Tuesday 26th August 2025

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Running on treadmills: Milan Kundera’s meditations on Slowness

Sometimes it takes a new word to express an old feeling. Until the age of around fourteen I spent many of my evenings brokering...

Financial disparities and uneven provision in student welfare

Last Trinity Term, the Oxford Student Union (SU) conducted a University-wide Welfare Survey Analysis. Open to all students, it received 2,116 respondents. 93% of...

Review – The Wykehamist: ‘A Saltburn for the other place’

In the underbelly of Hong Kong, a Goldsmith-Sachs Vice President invites a woman back to his penthouse apartment for sex. Once there, he tortures...

Underground Bar to open on George Street

Underground Bar, a “grassroots alternative music venue” is set to open in the basement of 29-31 George Street. It will aim to support “local...

Oxford Union town hall TT25: Meet the candidates

With polls open for the next set of Oxford Union elections on Friday, Cherwell spoke to the two candidates running to be President in...

Oxford City Council proposes unified Great Oxford Council

Oxford City Council have released details on a suggested proposal to abolish Oxfordshire’s six councils and replace them with three new ones: Greater Oxford...

The Journal of a Chambermaid: The greatest novel you’ve never heard of

It is easy to suppose that the greatest authors of the 19th century have all already been discovered. Especially when it comes to French...

Bridget Kendall on interviewing Putin, the Russia-Ukraine war, and her path into journalism

Bridget Kendall was the BBC's correspondent for Moscow in the pivotal period covering the collapse of the Soviet Union.

JCRs launch ‘Safe Celebrators’ welfare scheme for post-exam celebrations

A new student-led peer support initiative was launched this week by Brasenose College and St Catherine’s College JCRs. The pilot scheme, Safe Celebrators, provides...

W.H. Auden at the Bus Stop: In Praise of Intellectual Delay

It’s a damp Tuesday afternoon, and W.H. Auden is waiting patiently at the bus stop...

Drinking the political compass

Oxford’s political societies cultivated generations of MPs and PMs. In an era of rising populism, a tour of their drinking events finds a drifting elite with few ideas.

The BNOC list 2025

It's finally here... the most famous names from this Oxford year

Wake of the Locks: Baldness, and mourning my hair

Ben O'Brien humorously reflects on his experience of having male pattern baldness at a young age

Barry Lyndon – Kubrick’s ultimate antifilm?

Barry Lyndon has always been dismissed within Kubrick’s filmography. While he is a filmmaker known for his versatility across genres, Barry Lyndon still sits...

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