Monday 2nd March 2026

Opinion

We need summer re-sits

Desmond Weisenberg discusses the impact of Oxford's lack of summer re-sits

Course culling is a threat to us all

Education is valuable for its own sake, Rampant course culls are the result of wrongly boiling it down to economic value.

Oxford’s poverty porn addiction

It exists in the overly sympathetic sighs of ‘solidarity’, the overexaggeration of comparatively minor and mundane inconveniences

Oxford is making you childish

With rooms cleaned, meals made, and jobs banned, Oxford students fail to experience true independence. Is it any wonder we're so childish?

Profile: Gina Miller

Gina Miller has every reason to be fearful. Over the festive period, rather than Christmas cards and messages from well-wishers, the 51-year-old investment manager...

Sturgeon attempts to sell favourite horse

Tony Campbell with a Cherwell exclusive on Nicola Sturgeon’s plans for Scotland. Will Theresa May let history repeat itself?

What Labour can learn from Tony Blair

Aimee Reynolds gets to the crux of the matter: Blair and football

Why Oxford should resist the NSS

The National Student Survey will have dire consequences for students, says Lily MacTaggart

Let’s be positive about 2017

Jordan Bernstein offers a positive outlook on 2017, hoping that it will counter the excitement of 2016 and be dull, tedious, and uneventful

Profile: Gina Miller

Marianna Spring speaks to Gina Miller about Brexit, fearlessness and challenging Theresa May

The ‘post-truth’ era is a product of liberal denial

James Lamming argues that making ‘post truth’ the Oxford English Dictionary’s word of the year is a fundamentally arrogant move

So, what will actually happen at Donald Trump’s inauguration?

Fred Dimbleby looks ahead to the traditional inauguration of the 45th President of the United States of America

Science may be far from true

Rachel Dunne on a branch of philosophy that argues that progress is biased by social factors

Oxford – a tale of two cities sitting in the same space

SJ Novak describes what happens to town-and-gown when students disappear, and how the hush of the midwinter streets betrays something important about our community

Debate: does fake news directly threaten democracy?

Richard Birch and Joe Baverstock-Poppy debate whether fake news poses a damage to the democratic systems around us

The stigma of a woman travelling alone

Erin Melton discusses her own and others' experiences travelling alone as a woman

Bigger babies? So what?

Taking a closer look at the claim that caesarean sections are driving evolution

The week according to… An Oxford tutor

As dreamt up by James Lamming

One thing I’d change about Oxford… Religion

Cat Bean wishes that Oxford's theological history was more inclusive

A spectre is haunting Europe

Richard Birch reflects on what the new year may hold for Paris

Celebrity deaths: an insensitive media onslaught?

Olivia Webster reflects on the tragic trend of celebrity deaths, what it says about modern culture and media coverage

I’m taking the 10% giving pledge—and you should too

Rob Pepper details his reasons for subscribing to effective altruism with the Oxford-based charity Giving What We Can

2016 is dead, long live 2017?

Julia Routledge casts her eye back on a profusion of disheartening events in a year of great change

Cocaine’s fundamental flaw

Ellie Lee sees the hypocrisy between some students' ethics and their drug use

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