Friday 11th July 2025

Opinion

Trashing rules save face, not students

Trashing is banned. But what does the banning achieve except pushing students further from the centre to more perilous waters? Recently, Brasenose students were threatened with £150 fines from the...

The Language Faculty is promoting intelligence, not artifice

Isaac Asimov’s fantastic short story ‘The Last Question’ has always struck me as vaguely...

Racism tarnished my European year abroad experience

For linguists and lawyers heading across the Channel in third year, an idyllic continental adventure is not the whole picture

It’s okay to hate tourism in Oxford

Tourists are as much a feature of life as a student at this University...

Sides of the story: Jeremy Hunt & Murdoch

Our take on other takes on the Jeremy Hunt scandal

Interview: Alan Duncan

Sebastian Leape travels to Westminster to talk to Alan Duncan about politics, poverty and power

Debate: London mayoral election – Vote Ken

Ben Deaner urges Londoners to give Ken a second chance

Debate: London mayoral election – Back Boris

Tom Beardsworth urges voters to back the gaff prone Tory

5 Minute Tute: Two Years of The Coalition

David Rennie debates the future of the Conservative/Liberal Democrat coalition

Why Gleick must speak

Phil Saville weighs in on the Gleick-Heartland climate change affair

Interview: Tim Butcher

Rachel Savage talks to Tim Butcher about his experiences in war zones and adventures in Africa

Sides of the Story: The French Presidential election

Our take on other takes on the French election

Cherwell Cartoon: Trinity 2012 Week 1

Max Mulvany's take on plans to impose a new tax on charitable donations

5 Minute Tute: Green Economics

Caroline Lucas MP explains the economics behind the environmental movement

Where will the Tories turn after Cameron?

Tom Beardsworth asks how long a fluffy liberal can hang on to the leadership of an angry party

Egypt on the brink – of what?

Islamists and ageing generals will decide the country's future

Alain de Botton talks religion

Alain de Botton discusses what atheists can learn from religion and the benefits of original sin

Sides of the story

Our take on other takes on the 'gay cure' scandal

A new kind of torture?

The European Court of Human rights has just sent five people to a very nasty place indeed

The selfishness of Trenton Oldfield

Trenton Oldfield's incoherent protest destroyed the dreams of rowers in the Boat Race, a competition which is elite but not elitist

The man without a mandate

Jack Gallagher examines the sorry state of the Liberal Democrats

An expensive habit

The War on Drugs has been a deadly failure. It's time for legalisation.

House of Lords reform: end it, don’t mend it

Tom Beardsworth argues for getting rid of the Upper House altogether

It’s as democratic as you make it

The NHS reforms show how easily public opinion gets steamrollered in this country, and the necessity of constitutional reform

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