Tuesday 10th June 2025

Opinion

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

The fate of Oxbridge Launchpad shows only the University can improve access

The most rewarding thing I did in my first year at university was to...

International students enrich, not endanger, our universities

The first line of the “About” page on the University of Oxford’s website makes...

Beauty without a purpose: Nature and the Oxford mind

Our recent spell of sunshine has offered a welcome opportunity to rediscover the natural...

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

Watching the detectives

David Gilbertson QPM is a former Deputy Assistant Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police and author of 'The Strange Death of Constable George Dixon: Why the Police Have Stopped Policing'

We don’t need no…

Robin McGhee delivers some radical ideas on spending cuts

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