Monday 9th 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?

Misanthrope: say no to pizza, and yes to recycling

Misanthrope puts aside its propensity for skepticism to raise two fingers at those ruining the planet

Interview: Jeremy Leggett

Jeremy Leggett talks candidly to Sammy Talalay about the impending energy crisis

Should developed countries tackle global warming first? YES

Jack Harris makes the case for developed countries shouldering the responsibility for climate change

Is France ready for François, or steady with Sarkozy?

The French presidential election is a choice between hope and realism, argues Joshua Jacobs

Leaving a generation behind

Philip Saville talks to Donna Sinclair about why Oxbridge is out of reach for many black children

Misanthrope: let students make fools of themselves

Misanthrope rants about colleges cracking down on drinking societies and the media that fuels their paranoia

Speaking up for science

Adam Jordan stresses the need to get more people doing science

5 Minute Tute: Darfur

Richad Cockett sheds some light on the complex issue of Darfur

India suffers for Rushdie’s silence

Sammy Talalay argues that protecting free speech needs to be knee-jerk if it is to be effective

James Landale’s political close shave

Sophie Jamieson talks to the BBC's Deputy Political Editor about his Movember campaign, political poetry and the tricks of the journalist's trade

Blagging the news: healthcare reform

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

Misanthrope: The 2012 Olympics

Misanthrope shares some thoughts on why to be excited about the Olympic Games in London

5 Minute Tute: Sub-Saharan Africa

Professor Paul Collier analyses the challenges facing the economies of Sub-Saharan Africa

A third state, and now a third victor

Jack Harris discusses the political fervour that is winning Newt Gingrich so much support

Fame, fortune and philosophy

Robert Winston talks to Sammy Talalay about his career as an academic, researcher and thespian

Blagging the news: Scottish Independence

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

Syria won’t be the next Libya

Sebastian Leape makes the case for non-intervention in Syria

5 Minute Tute: US-China relations

Professor Rosemary Foot explains the relationship between a rising China and a wary US

A unified Britain is a Great Britain

Calls for Scottish independence overlook the shared values that define us, argues Adam Jordan

Misanthrope: that rejection letter

Misanthrope discovers some Oxonian pride and vents about Elly Nowell's rejection letter

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