Monday 7th 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

Editorial: Do we need drugs to switch on?

Mediocrity has never been tolerated, but avoiding it has reached new depths

5 Minute Tute: Google vs. China

Professor Rana Mitter explains Google's decision to pull out of China

The errors of a decade

Clement Knox considers what went wrong in the noughties

Guest Columnist: Entrepreneurship is the way forward

Why students should look beyond corporate institutions

Editorial: Higher Education funding

We should be raising the bar for education, not dropping it.

Next term in the Union

Stuart Cullen looks at the upcoming term at the Oxford Union Society.

Right time to topple Brown?

Two students consider whether the coup to overthrow Gordon Brown was the right thing to do

5 Minute Tute: Can CAN go on?

Holly Graham explains the controversy surrounding the African Nations Cup

The Modern Man

Alain de Botton reconciles Clement Knox to the perils of modern living

The Oxford myth is true

Alex Connock, Chief Executive of Media Company Ten Alps, explains why studying at Oxford is a ticket to a career fast-lane

How the Left was won

Why the Coup-That-Never-Was might not have been such a bad thing for the Labour party.

Poetry and public prudishness

With new reforms for the Professor of Poetry elections, Cherwell delves further into Britain's poetic and prudish past

The thinking man’s politician?

Marc Kidson meets James Purnell, the former Cabinet minister whose resignation failed to topple Gordon Brown

Democracy: the best policy?

Hector Keate contemplates Simon Cowell's proposed "Political X factor"

Education, Education? – Labour now proposes two instead of three

Why forcing students to complete degrees in two years rather than three will create more problems than it will solve

Why we experience a quarter-life crisis

Marta Szczerba explores why fear is so prevalent among students

Varsity: Learning something on the slopes, if not how to ski

Learning humility (if not skiing) in Tignes

Cringe, appreciate and cringe some more

The line between irony and political insensitivity is blurred and as a result often has dangerous consequences

Is anybody listening, Mr Clegg?

Marc Kidson wonders why Nick Clegg struggles to get his voice heard in politics

5 Minute Tute: Copenhagen Summit

Dr. Bettina Wittneben explains the upcoming international climate conference

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