Tuesday 28th October 2025

Opinion

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.

Dear summer school snobs, please pipe down

You might not like it, but in an era of rising financial pressures for the university sector, summer schools are not just harmless – they are essential.

Leaving a generation behind

Philip Saville talks to Donna Sinclair about why Oxbridge is out of reach for many black children

Misanthrope: let students make fools of themselves

Misanthrope rants about colleges cracking down on drinking societies and the media that fuels their paranoia

Speaking up for science

Adam Jordan stresses the need to get more people doing science

5 Minute Tute: Darfur

Richad Cockett sheds some light on the complex issue of Darfur

India suffers for Rushdie’s silence

Sammy Talalay argues that protecting free speech needs to be knee-jerk if it is to be effective

James Landale’s political close shave

Sophie Jamieson talks to the BBC's Deputy Political Editor about his Movember campaign, political poetry and the tricks of the journalist's trade

Blagging the news: healthcare reform

Perplexed by political postulation? Cherwell is here to help you perfect your chit-chat.

Misanthrope: The 2012 Olympics

Misanthrope shares some thoughts on why to be excited about the Olympic Games in London

5 Minute Tute: Sub-Saharan Africa

Professor Paul Collier analyses the challenges facing the economies of Sub-Saharan Africa

A third state, and now a third victor

Jack Harris discusses the political fervour that is winning Newt Gingrich so much support

Fame, fortune and philosophy

Robert Winston talks to Sammy Talalay about his career as an academic, researcher and thespian

Blagging the news: Scottish Independence

Perplexed by political postulation? Cherwell is here to help you perfect your chit-chat

Syria won’t be the next Libya

Sebastian Leape makes the case for non-intervention in Syria

5 Minute Tute: US-China relations

Professor Rosemary Foot explains the relationship between a rising China and a wary US

A unified Britain is a Great Britain

Calls for Scottish independence overlook the shared values that define us, argues Adam Jordan

Misanthrope: that rejection letter

Misanthrope discovers some Oxonian pride and vents about Elly Nowell's rejection letter

Jon Snow: ‘I’m just a tawdry old creep’

Sammy Talalay takes a seat at the table with Jon Snow to talk about his recent foray into film

Misanthrope

Your weekly dose of misanthropic vitriol

Why cars scare me more than 9/11

Philip Saville maintains that our irrational fears only serve to distract us from real issues

Blagging The News: Republican primaries

Perplexed by political postulation? Cherwell is here to help you perfect your chit-chat

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