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In defence of consent training

CW: sexual violence It is often well-intentioned, stereotypically ‘progressive’ people who argue against the need for Freshers’ Week consent training, or at least find it obsolete. This includes even those...
Opinion Madeline Gillett -

The Vinted paradox: Consuming our way out of overconsumption

There are few pleasures quite like finding a jumper that sells for £70 new...
Opinion Agatha Crowther -

Can students still afford to choose?

There’s much about the experience of studying at Oxford that makes it truly unique...
Opinion Vanisha Karna -

I no longer want to be an astronaut

Just last week, OpenAI dropped 372 papers covering various well-known unsolved problems in mathematics and computer science. As someone in the unfortunate position of soon applying for a PhD in maths, it seems to be harder than ever to get one’s foot in the door. How can I, a bright-eyed but inexperienced undergraduate, compete with thousands of machines trawling through the sum of all human knowledge in parallel?
Opinion Zoë McGuire -
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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

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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.
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