Opinion

If colleges and departments are to foster meaningful growth and relationships, they need to accommodate all different backgrounds—ethnic, religious, and socioeconomic included. What I’ve so far seen as a graduate student suggests there remains much to be done.

To be clear, there is no sanction for violence that aims directly at undermining the legitimacy of the state, and protesters who eagerly vandalise the storefronts that are the livelihoods of normal people should not be free from justice. But failing to engage directly with the arguments of authoritarian alt-right about how to handle riots permits the ascendancy of genuine extremists

Tony Campbell reflects on Emmanuel Macron’s attempt to host a “gathering” in his bid for the French presidency

Theo Davies-Lewis and Felix Pope debate whether the Obama administration was ultimately successful

Verity Bligh wishes that Oxford’s weather was a little less dreary

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Michael Shao and Matt Roller debate the role of colleges in helping to solve Oxford's homelessness crisis

PREVENT endangers students’ rights and welfare, according to Alex Stoffel, Aliya Yule, and Martyn Rush

The time has come to apply the ideas of quantum mechanics to biological mysteries

John Mainland makes an impassioned case for the need to end the British monarchy in Australia

Calum Stephenson talks to the Conservative hereditary peer, journalist, economist, and businessman whose science books have been translated into 30 languages and sold over a million copies

Fred Dimbleby talks to Michael Gove about Twitter 'snowflakes', Brexit and why Trump should be given a chance

Susannah Goldsbrough says the women’s marchers weren’t attacking democracy, but standing up for it

Trump’s presidency is about to usher in a movement away from worldwide integration, says Alfie Steer

Charlotte Tosti warns Theresa May that grammar schools are damaging for young people and that education policy should be focused elsewhere

Fiona Bruce on women in journalism, the BBC on Brexit and modern languages

Hijacking immune cells’ metabolism has potential in MS and cancer therapy

Cherwell talks to the UCL researcher and popular science writer to investigate the media hype surrounding his ideas on life’s beginning

Tony Campbell with a Cherwell exclusive on the Gambia’s democratic crisis: a president who refuses to give up the table when he loses

Stephen Hawes reports on one of the darkest speeches in Britain’s history