Wednesday 6th May 2026

Opinion

Both rags and riches: Social media is heightening Oxford’s class disparities

According to the University of Oxford’s admissions data, in 2024, 14.5% of students admitted were from the most socio-economically deprived areas in the UK. Many students at the University...

We need to talk about Oxford’s gossip problem 

Gossiping is an innately human pastime, existing long before our generation, and a beloved...

When I met Peter Mandelson

In October 2024, during the Oxford Chancellor election, one of my responsibilities as Deputy Editor of Profiles at Cherwell was to interview Peter (then Lord) Mandelson, who was among the five frontrunners contesting the election.

There really is no smoke without fire

Preoccupation with one’s appearance is to be expected when starting at University. New wardrobes...

Racism amongst college porters must be dislodged

Exposed: 20 alleged accounts of porters profiling students of colour as they enter colleges

‘Racism amongst college porters must be dislodged’ Appendix

This week in Features Leanne Yau exposed widespread racial profiling of students of colour by porters employed by Oxford colleges. Accusations were received from...

Plagiarism is a modern malaise that must be avoided

We must ask Said students for explanations, says John Mainland

Single-minded Brexiteers are the real snowflakes

Right-moaners want to create a ‘safe space’ for themselves where they don’t have to engage with the views of neighbouring countries

The West needs to focus on the act, not the method, of killing

The West's intervention in Syria implicitly condones other forms of inhumanity

Bops are for everyone – the themes we choose should be too

Joe Sibley praises the Mansfield Entz team's change of heart

Don’t silence Powell – deconstruct him

We should appreciate the educational value of deconstructing Powell's infamous speech

Oxford should not accept billionaires’ vanity projects

Oxford’s continued acceptance of donations by the super rich like Blavatnik is rotten to the core.

Staff-student relationships are a question of consent

It is naïve to accept inappropriate relationships

There is still power in a union – but it erodes with our apathy

In a society increasingly driven towards division, the UCU pensions dispute highlights the challenges facing worker solidarity

Oxford should not bear all the blame for its access problem

It was recently revealed that only 2.8% of Oxford’s intake for 2018 will come from areas defined as the most difficult to engage in higher education

Involved, awake, engaged – an interview with Nick Farrell

South Africa’s principle uncanniness is in the reflection it gives of our own home nation.

Female lecturers: a rare sighting

Newly released figures on Oxford’s gender pay gap reflect an absence of females in senior university positions

Raising awareness of suicide shouldn’t mean sacrificing sensitivity

ITV's new installation could negatively affect those it claims to support

Oxford needs an education fit for the times

Climate change is shaping today’s world. Oxford’s curricula can ignore it no longer.

Managing an eating disorder shouldn’t entail putting my education on hold

NHS failings mean sufferers are feeling obliged to suspend their studies

Repealing the 8th: a movement for all generations

All generations need to engage in the upcoming Irish abortion referendum

It is time for Corbyn to go

If you proudly announce to me that you voted Labour in the last election, you don’t get it

Kevin Rudd: ‘An apology without a strategy would have been a hollow gesture.’

Ten years after apologising for the persecution of Aborigines, the former prime minister of Australia explains why the current policy is going nowhere

Why I won’t be participating in trashing

What do shaving foam, glitter, flour, eggs, raw meat, talcum powder and silly string all have in common?

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