Opinion

Politics must not serve as a barrier to education

As this article goes to print, Oxford University is missing two of its offer-holders. In a haunting echo of the trials faced by approximately 78 Palestinian students last academic...

University rankings can be misleading

When I came very close to rejecting Oxford for the University of Exeter, a...

A year abroad for all

There is something liberating about being somewhere where nobody knows your name, your college, or your subject. While abroad, I am no longer simply an Oxford student navigating the same routines of term-time life; I am an outsider, and, most importantly, a beginner again. The world suddenly feels much bigger than the few square miles I had grown accustomed to calling home.

The quiet guilt of upward social mobility at Oxford

Freshers’ formal. The first black-tie event I attended at Oxford. The golden glow of...

The drugs don’t work

Simon Singh is on trial for criticising alternative medicine and explains why he will not back down

Drowning in money

The Supreme Court has opened the floodgates in the name of free speech. Bad Decision.

The Weekly Short Cut

Jolyon O'Connell explains why The Week is a must-have for any cocktail party

Can a pill replace alcohol?

Two students consider the merits of a new drug that mimics the effects of alcohol, with an antidote that offers a speedy sobering up.

Editorial: Do we need drugs to switch on?

Mediocrity has never been tolerated, but avoiding it has reached new depths

5 Minute Tute: Google vs. China

Professor Rana Mitter explains Google's decision to pull out of China

The errors of a decade

Clement Knox considers what went wrong in the noughties

Guest Columnist: Entrepreneurship is the way forward

Why students should look beyond corporate institutions

Editorial: Higher Education funding

We should be raising the bar for education, not dropping it.

Next term in the Union

Stuart Cullen looks at the upcoming term at the Oxford Union Society.

Right time to topple Brown?

Two students consider whether the coup to overthrow Gordon Brown was the right thing to do

5 Minute Tute: Can CAN go on?

Holly Graham explains the controversy surrounding the African Nations Cup

The Modern Man

Alain de Botton reconciles Clement Knox to the perils of modern living

The Oxford myth is true

Alex Connock, Chief Executive of Media Company Ten Alps, explains why studying at Oxford is a ticket to a career fast-lane

How the Left was won

Why the Coup-That-Never-Was might not have been such a bad thing for the Labour party.

Poetry and public prudishness

With new reforms for the Professor of Poetry elections, Cherwell delves further into Britain's poetic and prudish past

The thinking man’s politician?

Marc Kidson meets James Purnell, the former Cabinet minister whose resignation failed to topple Gordon Brown

Democracy: the best policy?

Hector Keate contemplates Simon Cowell's proposed "Political X factor"

Education, Education? – Labour now proposes two instead of three

Why forcing students to complete degrees in two years rather than three will create more problems than it will solve

Why we experience a quarter-life crisis

Marta Szczerba explores why fear is so prevalent among students

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