Opinion

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...

The Vinted paradox: Consuming our way out of overconsumption

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

Can students still afford to choose?

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

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?

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

No reasoning about the riots

Philip Saville looks back at the UK riots and argues that the media and politicians ignored the real reasons for them, to play on people's fears.

The fall of Rome

Amelia Jenne discusses the root of Italy's current financial crisis

5 Minute Tute – The CERN discovery

Dan Short takes us through the recent discovery of neutrinos 'travelling faster than light' at the CERN project

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

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