Tuesday 8th 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

Latin should be available to all

Chris Pelling, Regius Professor of Greek, explains how he taught a group of disadvantaged pupils the language of Cicero

Niall Ferguson: The history boy

The Harvard history don talks to Robin McGhee about education, the next Starkey and World War One

The week that was: attacks on students

What happened? Three Oxford students were mugged last week in what appear to be arbitrary and unrelated attacks. While there were two stabbings in...

5 minute tute: Supercomputers

Mike Payne, Professor of Computational Physics at the University of Cambridge, explains the science behind the latest uber-powerful computer processors.

Why humanity needs the humanities

Universities should think before condemning the humanities

Not quite so straight forward

'Most people are open-minded, but homophobia still exists in Oxford', says Annis Stead

Christian, but not Puritan

'Just because I'm a Christian JCR President, I don't impose my values on others'

I back Browne

I must speak honestly when I say that almost every comment on the Browne review from OUSU or the Cherwell has been based upon...

The week that was: The Browne Review

What happened, what the papers said, what now

I was Miliband’s dogsbody

Alex Harvey, second-year St John's historian, reveals all on working for Ed Miliband's Labour leadership campaign

Zephaniah: rasta against the machine

The man who refused an OBE talks to Joseph King about Britain, South Africa, and everything in between

5 Minute Tute: The US Midterms

Dr. Zim Nwokora discusses the US 'midterm' elections on November 2. He is a post-doctoral researcher at the Centre for Governance and Public Policy, Queensland.

View from the (Cam)bridge: week two

Our tab discovers her inner pikey, and shows you how you could make your millions

The Clothing of a Connecticut Yankee in Oxford

At brief moments in time, the world gets curious about American preppies, and on occasion Oxford students might notice the phenomenon

Unfair on rich, poor and middle alike

India Lenon believes that there will be no winners if these proposals are made into law

‘Wannabe a journalist? Then blog’

The Wannabe Hacks are the authors of wannabehacks.co.uk and former student journalists

5 minute tute: Spending cuts

Dr. Stuart White, Politics Fellow, explains the implications of Wednesday's spending review.

The week that was: Cash for Cashmore

What happened, what the papers said, what now

‘Europe will either deepen or die’

Robin McGhee talks to former Lib Dem leader Lord Ashdown about the party, the coalition, and the future

Blonde Billionaires with Perfectly Coiffed Hair

There's a new breed of candidate in America, one with the potential to defy the Republican Party's stuffy-white-male stereotype

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