Opinion

Racism tarnished my European year abroad experience

For linguists and lawyers heading across the Channel in third year, an idyllic continental adventure is not the whole picture

Opinion Peter Chen -

It’s okay to hate tourism in Oxford

Tourists are as much a feature of life as a student at this University...

Opinion Oscar Whittle -

Academic imperialism and the war on Oxford

For centuries Oxford has balanced town and gown, but increasing college acquisitions are jeopardising the city's very essence

Opinion Benedict Masters -

The fate of Oxbridge Launchpad shows only the University can improve access

The most rewarding thing I did in my first year at university was to...

Opinion Stanley Smith -

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A zombie generation

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The feminist question

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Comprehensive welfare must end

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The Politics of Privilege

An interview with Lord Strathclyde, who resigned from Cabinet on Monday.

Comprehensive Welfare Must End

Means testing is the only sensible way forward for winter fuel allowance and child benefit.

We must end the ‘Cult of Masculinity’.

Gayatri Parthasarathy argues that misogynist cultural attitudes are to blame for the shockingly high levels of sexual assault.

It’s time to burst the Oxford bubble.

Rebecca Fairbank urges us to stop wilfully ignoring the world around us.

2012: An Alternative Look

Cherwell says goodbye to 2012 with a satirical rundown of the past year's events

It’s beginning to look a lot like Armageddon

Max McGenity sees our prophesied deaths as the perfect opportunity to sort our lives out

One Nation under Miliband

Tom Perrin notes that it has taken a Labour politician to recognise that ‘One Nation’ is the only way forward for Britain

An inevitable crisis? The bloody conflict in the Congo

Luke Samuel considers the history behind the protracted violence in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo

Why we love to bash the Tabs

What is it that fuels such irrational animosity between Oxford and Cambridge?

Local prejudice: West Oxford MP opposes equal marriage

Rio Jones highlights the prejudice and hypocrisy behind the opposition to equal marriage of Tory MP Nicola Blackwood, whose constituency, Oxford West and Abingdon is home to many of the University's students.

Press vultures: the media’s troubling response to tragedy

Alexander Rankine laments the media's often confused, insensitive and hypocritical response to tragedy, as showcased by the reaction to the death of an innocent nurse