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Week 5 editorial

Pieter Garicano, Cherwell Editor-in-Chief: A feature of student journalism is the lack of distance between the journalist and their subject. The media in London get derided for being too chummy...

Week 3 editorial

Pieter Garicano, Cherwell Editor-in-Chief: Our front page this week deals with the mismarking of finals...

Week 1 editorial

Statement of retraction: On Tuesday night, we received a complaint about an article which...

Week 0 editorial

Pieter Garicano, Cherwell Editor-in-Chief: Sometimes, things are as bad as they seem. A gale descends...

The gift of giving room to grow: Why we can all be kinder to others and ourselves

Deputy editor Shiraz Vapiwala's leader article on the necessity of compassion for others amidst disagreements.

Week 5 editorial

Pieter Garicano, Cherwell Editor-in-Chief: A feature of student journalism is the lack of distance between the journalist and their subject. The media in London get...

Week 3 editorial

Pieter Garicano, Cherwell Editor-in-Chief: Our front page this week deals with the mismarking of finals and their consequences. One student had a 64 marked as...

Week 1 editorial

Statement of retraction: On Tuesday night, we received a complaint about an article which had been published in our Life section and which was...

Week 0 editorial

Pieter Garicano, Cherwell Editor-in-Chief: Sometimes, things are as bad as they seem. A gale descends on the global economy. The energy and cost-of-living crisis will...

The gift of giving room to grow: Why we can all be kinder to others and ourselves

Deputy editor Shiraz Vapiwala's leader article on the necessity of compassion for others amidst disagreements.

Leader: BeReal has the potential to change student social media usage for the better

If there’s anything that defined my teenage years and early adulthood, it’s Instagram. I try as hard as I can to resist the shallow...

Leader: Right now, I’m ashamed to be an American citizen

CW: abortion, death The United States of America is a deeply broken country. This was driven home to me, as it was for many others,...

Leader: The High Tide Swimmers

n terms of swimming, most locals - and the swimmers are mostly locals - favour Splash Point: a series of concrete steps leading down to a deeper descent into the groynes, aptly named, as the water splashes over the sea wall on choppy days. 

Oxford’s outreach is great: How do we make it even better?

My introduction to Cherwell was reading a Features article, just after I’d received my UCAS offer. It was a well-written expose on Oxford’s secret...

Running out of time

What makes tick, tick… BOOM! so important to me is its central idea of running out of time. Jonathan Larson had a deep-set panic that he only had so long to achieve his goals, to reach his markers of success.

Oxford, “Cycling City” of our world

"If only we could be riding horses and chariots like in the good old days, huh?"

Inside Pandora’s Box

It is yet more evidence that a two-tier system exists. The ultra-rich have access to a completely different rulebook, leaving ordinary people to foot the bill.

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