Opinion

Who cares about college politics?

I’ve found myself part of a small core of my JCR who still care about JCR politics – those who fulfill a minimum requirement of simply turning up to things. Needless to say, the bar is low.

Opinion Eve Richardson -

Criticisms of Oxford slang aren’t really about language

Sub fusc, college marriages, BOPs, sconcing, Prelims, the Bod: Oxford boasts a unique catalogue...

Opinion Aaron Butters -

Why you should talk to your scout more

Quite apart from our academic work, students at Oxford University lead a life very...

Opinion Tarana Varma -

Livin’ la vida Lidl

Though I still have reservations about milk from Lidl – I swear it tastes different – and the eggs from Aldi look to me dull and pale, I can put aside these quibbles as I admit to the allure of a £1 bag of courgettes. All this to say: Oxford’s city centre needs a discount supermarket.

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Guest Columnist: Newspaper letters pages are duller without women

The Deputy Editor of the London Evening Standard explains women's reluctance to write letters to newspapers

OUSU: State of the Union

Two students debate the effectiveness of OUSU's proposed funding plans

Massachusetts in Red

Clement Knox analyses the Republican victory in Massachusetts

Guest Columnist: Jancis Robinson

Jancis Robinson, award-winning wine writer for the Financial Times explains how she first discovered the beauty of wine at Oxford

The drugs don’t work

Simon Singh is on trial for criticising alternative medicine and explains why he will not back down

Drowning in money

The Supreme Court has opened the floodgates in the name of free speech. Bad Decision.

The Weekly Short Cut

Jolyon O'Connell explains why The Week is a must-have for any cocktail party

Can a pill replace alcohol?

Two students consider the merits of a new drug that mimics the effects of alcohol, with an antidote that offers a speedy sobering up.

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

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Opinion

Who cares about college politics?

Criticisms of Oxford slang aren’t really about language

Why you should talk to your scout more

Livin’ la vida Lidl

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