Wednesday 9th July 2025

Opinion

The Language Faculty is promoting intelligence, not artifice

Isaac Asimov’s fantastic short story ‘The Last Question’ has always struck me as vaguely implausible, not because of its depictions of the next trillion-or-so years of human evolution and...

Racism tarnished my European year abroad experience

For linguists and lawyers heading across the Channel in third year, an idyllic continental adventure is not the whole picture

It’s okay to hate tourism in Oxford

Tourists are as much a feature of life as a student at this University...

Academic imperialism and the war on Oxford

For centuries Oxford has balanced town and gown, but increasing college acquisitions are jeopardising the city's very essence

5 minute tute: revolt in Tunisia

Dr Mohamed-Salah Omri takes us through the Tunisian revolt

P.R.O.T.E.S.T.

Our fly on the wall reports back from a string of hypothetical Oxford societies, starting with a report from Wadham's Mosert Theatre...

Ignorance ain’t bliss

Robin McGhee laments the rise of ignorance

Interview: Giles Coren

The restaurant critic talks to James Weston about prosody, crudeness, and intellectual superiority

A rehabilitation revolution

Helen Robb considers how granting prisoners suffrage will let them become a part of civil society

A new start for Tunisia

Helen Robb questions what citizens can learn from the Tunisian uprising

The new Ebacc – an unwise change of tack?

The latest way of comparing schools has as many defects as the old

A liberal wassail

Helen Robb considers why even the most disenchanted protestor has reason to be hopeful this Christmas.

The name’s Mili-Bond

Where on earth is the Labour leader? Cherwell's resident spy-catcher tracks him down

Thank God for Silvio

Meno male che Silvio non c'e? Robin McGhee blasts Berlusconi

Why I wasn’t protesting on Thursday

James Weston defends his break with the pack

The politics of the tuition fees vote

Robin McGhee rages against the political machine as Parliament votes to raise the cap on tuition fees

Time for the tables to turn

The dominance of league tables over the perception and attitude of our schools is damaging and in need of reform, argues Amelia Peterson

Don’t have a go at the Lib Dems

'To attack only Clegg loses sight of what the other parties have done'

5 minute tute: The AV referendum

Robert Rogers and Rhodri Walters are Clerks at the Table in the House of Commons and House of Lords respectively, and authors of 'How Parliament Works'.

The week that was: Ireland’s EU bailout

What happened? Top o' de mornin' to ya! Vaguely racist japery aside, the Irish are in trouble. This presents problems for national stereotyping. Normally we...

Cherwell’s 90th Guest contributions

Two ex Cherwell Editors celebrate Cherwell's ripe old age

No Skinner off his nose

Daryl Lim talks to Quentin Skinner about intellectual pundits, Hitchens and why Oxford is just better.

A response from RAG

Oxford RAG is doing well, and will do better

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