Tuesday 16th June 2026

Opinion

Who gets to build the future: On tech bros

While scrolling through social media, a video appeared on my feed titled “Remember who you are, start-up boy”, followed by a montage of clips of young Mark Zuckerberg and...

Gender is what you make of it

If you ever dare to become an audacious transsexual like me, you may have...

I will not be misquoted into silence 

Arwa Elrayess responds to recent national media coverage.

The sound of belonging: Exclusion through language

Calls for migrants to learn English, supposedly for the purpose of ‘integration’, have formed...

Comprehensive welfare must end

Tom Perrin argues that means testing is the way forward for winter fuel allowance and child benefit

The Politics of Privilege

An interview with Lord Strathclyde, who resigned from Cabinet on Monday.

Comprehensive Welfare Must End

Means testing is the only sensible way forward for winter fuel allowance and child benefit.

We must end the ‘Cult of Masculinity’.

Gayatri Parthasarathy argues that misogynist cultural attitudes are to blame for the shockingly high levels of sexual assault.

It’s time to burst the Oxford bubble.

Rebecca Fairbank urges us to stop wilfully ignoring the world around us.

2012: An Alternative Look

Cherwell says goodbye to 2012 with a satirical rundown of the past year's events

It’s beginning to look a lot like Armageddon

Max McGenity sees our prophesied deaths as the perfect opportunity to sort our lives out

One Nation under Miliband

Tom Perrin notes that it has taken a Labour politician to recognise that ‘One Nation’ is the only way forward for Britain

An inevitable crisis? The bloody conflict in the Congo

Luke Samuel considers the history behind the protracted violence in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo

Why we love to bash the Tabs

What is it that fuels such irrational animosity between Oxford and Cambridge?

Local prejudice: West Oxford MP opposes equal marriage

Rio Jones highlights the prejudice and hypocrisy behind the opposition to equal marriage of Tory MP Nicola Blackwood, whose constituency, Oxford West and Abingdon is home to many of the University's students.

Press vultures: the media’s troubling response to tragedy

Alexander Rankine laments the media's often confused, insensitive and hypocritical response to tragedy, as showcased by the reaction to the death of an innocent nurse

Forget the Foetus, that’s enough royal baby for now

Huw Fullerton urges an end to the countless articles about his/her tiny unborn majesty. This article excluded, of course.

Should High Table be Abolished?

Comment discuss the benefits of the age old Oxford institution

Can you tell me where the University is?

It is not only the tourists for whom the university is elusive

Interview: Sir Paul Nurse

Sir Paul Nurse talks science, scepticism and the Nobel Prize with Patrick Kennedy

Getting it right

Myles Karp explains why criticisms of the US pollster Nate Silver betray ignorance and wishful thinking

How the NUS ‘No Platform’ Policy became press censorship

Will this be the week that the Leeds Student Union lost its marbles?

Not a union man, through and through

Ben Deaner encourages students not to bother voting in the upcoming Union elections

Forget Socialising, Oxford’s one big network

Alexandra Sutton laments students' relentless networking

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