Wednesday 20th August 2025

Opinion

The Encaenia is PR without the public (or anyone else)

Wholesale reform is the last thing Encaenia needs. If only people knew what it is, it would be a well-suited PR exercise for a modern Oxford.

This is how we combat the crusade against universities

It’s easy to think of an arts degree as a fruitless pleasure. But education and academic study are intrinsically valuable.

From pensioners to students, all should fear the Palestine Action ban

If you think this is a win for one side over the other in relation to Israel’s war on Gaza, be careful what you wish for.

Trashing rules save face, not students

Trashing is banned. But what does the banning achieve except pushing students further from...

Interview: Robin Hanbury-Tenison

Britain's greatest living explorer talks to Patrick Kennedy about a lifetime’s travel

‘Being offensive is not an offence’

Huw Fullerton argues that speech, however sinister, should not be criminalised

Demo2012: Protest for the sake of protest?

Sean Ford asks if there is a better way for the student movement to resist the government

Vince Cable talks to Cherwell

Sarika Sharma talks to the Business Secretary about the Lib Dems and fixing the economy

‘In Time We Hate That Which We Fear’

Izzy Westbury explores the phenomenon of hatred in modern politics

Interview: George Galloway

Tom Beardsworth challenges an unrepentant and dogmatic George Galloway

Oxford Personality of the Week

Cherwell Comment brings you Angus Aitken!

5 Minute Tute: The Human Genome

Professor Andrew Wilkie, Professor of Pathology at the Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, answers Cherwell's questions

A call for Lebanese Unity

Adam Jordan, an Oxford student in Beirut, recounts his experience of last week's bomb blast

First-Class Ticket Mr Osborne?

Should the Chancellor be forking out for politicians to travel in First or will Standard do just fine?

Could Malala change a nation?

Alexandra Sutton praises Malala's courage

5 Minute Tute: Hugo Chavez

Phil Gunson, Venezuelan correspondent for the Economist on Hugo Chavez

Oxford Personality of the Week: Ella Waldman

Ella Waldman runs tube lines for Dominican street-kids

Gay marriage is not a Nazi concept

Eleanor Bley Griffiths argues that when it comes to anti-gay-marriage campaigners, freedom of speech works both ways

Interview: Will Hutton

Izzy Westbury talks to Will Hutton about the EU, economics and eating at Oxford

A summer of extremism: from Lebanon

Will Todman, who recently completed a diplomatic internship in Lebanon, recounts his observations of extremist rage

Hunt should keep his opinions to himself

Hannah Timmis lambasts the new Health Secretary's attack on abortion

Party Conferences – Pointless?

Izzy Westbury and Patrick Kennedy debate whether party conferences still matter

Interview: Natalie Bennett

Eleanor Bley Griffiths speaks to Natalie Bennett about power, policy and stealing Lib Dem voters

The Week That Wasn’t – Freshers Week

Cherwell Comment gives a wholly inaccurate account of Freshers Week

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