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If Westminster won’t offer reparations, Oxford should

A diasporic fight that surged with UN-approved ambitions saw optimism dwindle early this month. Jamaican government officials have elevated their call for reparations with a petition to Buckingham Palace....

Oxford’s new Reform UK society puts students like me at risk

I was too mentally exhausted to write this article, but I grew up watching my mother respond to every verbal harassment we faced on the street. When I once told her she could ignore it, she told me that they are relying on stereotypes surrounding Muslim women: they rely on us to be what they want us to be, silent and meek. It is our silence that emboldens them.

The hypocrisy of Oxford academics invoking ‘academic freedom’ for Nathan Cofnas

Now, it cannot be clearer: ‘Academic freedom’ is only ever collectively invoked for those like Nathan Cofnas.

The hypocrisy of aestheticised wilderness

We seem to have been locked in an eternal attempt at domination over nature for millennia. My recent trip to Thailand shifted this into clear focus: perhaps the attempt was never really about humans over nature.

Emmanuel Macron assures parents that he is “definitely not having a party”

Tony Campbell reflects on Emmanuel Macron’s attempt to host a “gathering” in his bid for the French presidency

Debate: Was the Obama administration successful?

Theo Davies-Lewis and Felix Pope debate whether the Obama administration was ultimately successful

One thing I’d change about Oxford… the weather

Verity Bligh wishes that Oxford’s weather was a little less dreary

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Do colleges have an imperative to help the homeless?

Michael Shao and Matt Roller debate the role of colleges in helping to solve Oxford's homelessness crisis

Preventing PREVENT in Oxford is an imperative

PREVENT endangers students’ rights and welfare, according to Alex Stoffel, Aliya Yule, and Martyn Rush

Quantum physics is invading biology

The time has come to apply the ideas of quantum mechanics to biological mysteries

The profound need for an Australian republic

John Mainland makes an impassioned case for the need to end the British monarchy in Australia

Matt Ridley on ice ages, bird watching and cultural evolution

Calum Stephenson talks to the Conservative hereditary peer, journalist, economist, and businessman whose science books have been translated into 30 languages and sold over a million copies

Profile: Michael Gove

Fred Dimbleby talks to Michael Gove about Twitter 'snowflakes', Brexit and why Trump should be given a chance

Do not limit the aims of the Women’s March

Susannah Goldsbrough says the women’s marchers weren’t attacking democracy, but standing up for it

The strange death of globalisation

Trump’s presidency is about to usher in a movement away from worldwide integration, says Alfie Steer

Reintroducing grammar schools will solve nothing

Charlotte Tosti warns Theresa May that grammar schools are damaging for young people and that education policy should be focused elsewhere

Profile: Fiona Bruce

Fiona Bruce on women in journalism, the BBC on Brexit and modern languages

The metabolic key to novel therapies

Hijacking immune cells’ metabolism has potential in MS and cancer therapy

Dr Nick Lane on the origin of life

Cherwell talks to the UCL researcher and popular science writer to investigate the media hype surrounding his ideas on life’s beginning

Yayha Jammeh refuses to leave the pool table

Tony Campbell with a Cherwell exclusive on the Gambia’s democratic crisis: a president who refuses to give up the table when he loses

Theresa May to lock Britain in a small and dark cupboard

Stephen Hawes reports on one of the darkest speeches in Britain’s history

The migration of the amateur poultry farmer’s daughter

Verity Bell considers her home of Australia from a long, long way away

Alternative funding methods will be salvation for the arts

Eimer McAuley proposes a solution to remedy increasing cuts to cultural services in the UK

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