Saturday 1st November 2025

Opinion

We must fight the Right’s narrative about Oxford

Media frenzies targeting our University and its students distract from the real issues facing higher education.

Student voices must be heard

Today’s youth are tomorrow’s future. It’s about time we were treated as such.

It’s time we stopped fussing over university rankings

To combine all the factors that might influence someone’s decision-making into an aggregate score obscures as much as it illuminates.  

The Greens must revive Oxford’s leftist scene

Student Greens are missing a crucial opportunity to challenge Oxford Labour Club's top spot in left wing politics at this University.

5 Minute Tute: Quantum Physics

Professor Simon Saunders sheds some light on the mysterious world of quantum physics

The UK and Europe – born to lose

Ben Deaner on what Eurovision can tell us about the UK and Europe

Sides of the story – the Baroness Warsi scandal

This week, Cherwell takes a look at others' take on the Baroness Warsi scandal

No Minister – miss 69%

Tom Beardsworth looks at how the Queen has achieved such widespread appeal

Interview – Martti Ahtisaari

Cherwell speaks to the Nobel Prize-winning peacemaker and former Finnish President

Syria: the tipping point

Izzy Westbury gives an overview of the escalating and increasingly bloody Syrian crisis

The price of political hypocrisy

How the fight against child trafficking harms those it seeks to protect

5 Minute Tute – Greek Debt Crisis

Simon Wren-Lewis, Professor of Economics and Fellow of Merton College, discusses Greece's economic crisis and what the EU can to do fix it

Sides of the story – eurozone crisis

Cherwell picks apart British coverage of the eurozone crisis

Debate: do we really need OUSU?

Martha Mackenzie and Phillip Saville battle it out over whether affiliating with OUSU is actually worth it for college JCRs

Out of the ivory tower

Sebastian Leape argues that universities need to refocus on teaching

How to lose friends and educate people

Toby Young talks about reinventing state schools, and his left-wing father

No Minister – Banning the ASBO

Phillip Saville argues that the government is out of touch with inner city youths

Cherwell Cartoon: Trinity 2012 Week 5

The Eurozone crisis according to Max Mulvany

Cherwell Cartoon: Trinity 2012 Week 4

Max Mulvany draws on the local and London mayoral elections for inspiration

Cherwell Cartoon: Trinity 2012 Week 6

Our resident cartoonist's take on the Facebook flame wars that have engulfed Oxford's LGBTSoc

An odd kind of freedom

Andrew Irwin picks apart Ron Paul's populist brand of libertarianism.

Greece on the edge

Zachary Tate looks at the possibility of a Greek exit from the Eurozone

Dream of the machines

Tom Gardner argues that technology is going to change the relationship between power and the people

5 Minute Tute: The Mexican drug war

Tom Wainwright assesses the current state of Mexico's battle with the cartels

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