Sunday 8th March 2026

Opinion

We need summer re-sits

Desmond Weisenberg discusses the impact of Oxford's lack of summer re-sits

Course culling is a threat to us all

Education is valuable for its own sake, Rampant course culls are the result of wrongly boiling it down to economic value.

Oxford’s poverty porn addiction

It exists in the overly sympathetic sighs of ‘solidarity’, the overexaggeration of comparatively minor and mundane inconveniences

Oxford is making you childish

With rooms cleaned, meals made, and jobs banned, Oxford students fail to experience true independence. Is it any wonder we're so childish?

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

Africa’s Caesar: the paradox of Paul Kagame

Luke Samuel discusses the ambition, determination and dark side of Rwanda's Paul Kagame

Blagging the news: climate change

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

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