Opinion

Who gets to build the future: On tech bros

While scrolling through social media, a video appeared on my feed titled “Remember who you are, start-up boy”, followed by a montage of clips of young Mark Zuckerberg and...

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Gender is what you make of it

If you ever dare to become an audacious transsexual like me, you may have...

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I will not be misquoted into silence

Arwa Elrayess responds to recent national media coverage.

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The sound of belonging: Exclusion through language

Calls for migrants to learn English, supposedly for the purpose of ‘integration’, have formed...

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Misanthrope

Your weekly dose of misanthropic vitriol

Why cars scare me more than 9/11

Philip Saville maintains that our irrational fears only serve to distract us from real issues

Blagging The News: Republican primaries

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

5 Minute Tute: Nigel Farage

Nigel Farage explains why Eurosceptics want Britain's relationship to the EU to change

The generation gap

Jack Harris discusses the political divide between young and old

A week in the world

Republicans face off, Assad carries on killing, the Euro (still) teeters on the edge and the NHS earns DD plus points - another week in the world

That Was The Year That Was

Cherwell takes a last look back at 2011, a tumultuous year of revolutions, riots, strikes and superinjunctions

2011: An Alternative Look

Xin Fan takes an irreverent look at the events of the last twelve months

China’s Korean problem

Jack Harris argues that the death of North Korean dictator Kim Jong-Il presents China with a real opportunity to reset its policy towards the peninsula

Obituary: ‘trailblazing’ biologist Lynn Margulis

Patrick Kennedy looks back on the life and work of the recently deceased evolutionary biologist Lynn Margulis

EuroCRAs(h)

Hannah Timmis argues that while credit rating agencies should act more responsibly, regulating them is not the answer

A bitter end to the Northern Rock saga

Alex Michie argues that the bank bailouts and quantitative easing, while necessary, were badly implemented, particularly in the case of Northern Rock

Britain on the edge

Sebastian Leape argues that Cameron's EU veto has failed to protect Britain's interests

Cherwell pays tribute to Christopher Hitchens

Ben Kirby pays his respects to the courageous 'intellectual titan'

The delusion of democracy and demography

Adam Jordan argues that the revolutions secularists hoped for in the Arab Spring have failed

Tabloids dig their own grave

Jack Harris argues that Paul McMullan's defence of tabloid journalism at the Leveson Inquiry has only served to expose the cruelty of media invasiveness