Wednesday 29th October 2025

Opinion

Student voices must be heard

Today’s youth are tomorrow’s future. It’s about time we were treated as such.

It’s time we stopped fussing over university rankings

To combine all the factors that might influence someone’s decision-making into an aggregate score obscures as much as it illuminates.  

The Greens must revive Oxford’s leftist scene

Student Greens are missing a crucial opportunity to challenge Oxford Labour Club's top spot in left wing politics at this University.

Dear summer school snobs, please pipe down

You might not like it, but in an era of rising financial pressures for the university sector, summer schools are not just harmless – they are essential.

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

Cameron goes to Washington

Cameron's dream voyage raises questions about the future of the 'special relationship'

The East is Red No Longer

How to read the political demise of China's most popular Communist

5 Minute Tute: Drugs

Professor David Nutt assesses the truth of common perceptions of legal and illegal drugs

Afghanistan: the beginning of the end

A shooting spree by a rogue US soldier has strengthened calls for a US withdrawal

The ailing world of finance

Sebastian Leape discusses bankers, bonuses and the City with FSA chairman Lord Adair Turner

The sins of The Sun

Philip Saville bemoans slipping standards in an integral discipline

Misanthrope: celebrity journalists

Misanthrope turns his wrath on celebrity journalists for a last dose of vitriol before Easter

The Olympic spirit is not Saudi

The IOC should ban Saudi Arabia unless it brings female athletes

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