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...

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

The Liberal lion still roars

Paddy Ashdown tells Rachel Savage why the Lib Dems were right to join the coalition government

The media must not send us to war

Overblown claims of a nuclear threat sound all too familiar

5 Minute Tute: The Coalition

The Guardian's Michael White discusses the current state of the Conservative-Lib Dem coalition government

Misanthrope: Public Nudity

Misanthrope thinks that we Brits are just a bit too prudish and nakedness in the great outdoors shouldn't be considered offensive

Blagging the news: The French Presidential Election

Perplexed by political postulation? Cherwell is here to help you perfect your chit-chat.

Spain needs to snap out of siesta

Joseph D'Urso makes the case for Spanish labour market reforms

Stormclouds on the horizon? South Sudan at six months

Luke Samuel discusses the vicissitudes of South Sudan's first six months of existence, and what the future holds for the fledgling nation

Blagging the news: The Iran-Israel covert war

Perplexed by political postulation? Cherwell is here to help you perfect your chit-chat.

5 Minute Tute: Falkand Islands

Rupert Nichol analyses the ongoing dispute between Britain and Argentina over the Falkland Islands

No to Norrington

Andrew Grey makes the case for abolishing the Norrington Table

‘We never broke any rules’

Paul Kenyon tells Jack Harris about the skills needed to fake death and infiltrate Iranian nuclear sites

Ten torturous years and counting

Guantanamo Bay is an affront to justice and Obama needs to do more, argues Richard Hill

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