Opinion

If Westminster won’t offer reparations, Oxford should

A diasporic fight that surged with UN-approved ambitions saw optimism dwindle early this month. Jamaican government officials have elevated their call for reparations with a petition to Buckingham Palace....

Opinion Madison Garrett -

Oxford’s new Reform UK society puts students like me at risk

I was too mentally exhausted to write this article, but I grew up watching my mother respond to every verbal harassment we faced on the street. When I once told her she could ignore it, she told me that they are relying on stereotypes surrounding Muslim women: they rely on us to be what they want us to be, silent and meek. It is our silence that emboldens them.

Opinion Saba Ahmadzadeh Noughani -

The hypocrisy of Oxford academics invoking ‘academic freedom’ for Nathan Cofnas

Now, it cannot be clearer: ‘Academic freedom’ is only ever collectively invoked for those like Nathan Cofnas.

Opinion Saba Ahmadzadeh Noughani -

The hypocrisy of aestheticised wilderness

We seem to have been locked in an eternal attempt at domination over nature for millennia. My recent trip to Thailand shifted this into clear focus: perhaps the attempt was never really about humans over nature.

Opinion Ava Doherty -

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

Who’s afraid of Big Bad Oil?

Philip Saville argues that Big Oil is not to blame for our addiction to fossil fuels

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