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?

Bahrain’s Battle for Freedom

Leading figure in the Bahraini protest movement Maryam Al-Khawaja talks to Oliver Park

5 Minute Tute- The Eurozone Crisis

Tim Harford, Financial Times columnist, gives us the current European financial crisis in a nutshell

The continued importance of the Poppy Appeal

Oliver Park discusses the Poppy Appeal and what it means today

Welcome to the (very Tory) jungle

Former Deputy Prime Minister and Tory big dog Lord Heseltine talks to Robin McGhee

The scarcity of economic enterprise

We have to rely on a handful of experts to tackle 'the big other', according to Hugh Burns

Education is still worth fighting for

Sophie Jamieson argues that we should be supporting the latest London protests

No time to be complacent

In the build up to tomorrow's protest in London, Nathan Akehurst argues that cuts to university funding are ill-considered and detrimental to society

Justice or barbarism?

Sam Talalay discusses the consequences of Colonel Gaddafi's death

Lord Adonis: I’m a political animal

Andrew Adonis talks Westminster past, present and future to Christine Murray

5 Minute Tute – Nick Clegg

Chris Bowers, Lib Dem blogger, party candidate and author of Nick Clegg: The Biography discusses the leader's political trajectory

The need for free elections in DRC

The region's stability depends on a transparent and fair poll, according to Bill Townsend.

Putin Power

Amelia Jenne analyses Putin's lasting popularity in the polls

5 Minute Tute – The future of the newspaper

Andrew Mullins, MD of The Evening Standard, The Independent and i newspapers, discusses the changing face of the press

The Modern Communication Breakdown

Miles Lawrence discusses the dominance of email in our professional lives

On this day and through the ages

A compendium of news in Oxford history from Michaelmas 2nd week

Fighting for his Father’s Freedom

Joey D'Urso goes to the Union to talk to Pavel Khodorkovsky about injustice in Russia

5 Minute Tute- Ruling Russia

Luke Harding, the Guardian's ex-Moscow bureau chief, discusses Russia's hidden instruments of power.

South Sudan struggles to develop

Africa's newest state must be given every opportunity to succeed

Cherwell on this day through the ages

A compendium of news in Oxford history from Michaelmas 1st week

5 Minute Tute: The Art of Polling

Andrew Hawkins, founder of research consultancy ComRes, looks at polling's evolution and impact

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