Tuesday 26th May 2026

Opinion

Oxford is not an aesthetic

My social media algorithm has successfully tracked my profile closely enough to have figured out where I study. To my regret. For every now and then, I’ll be confronted...

What are children really learning from their screens?

Today, when compared to my own childhood, screens dominate children's lives more than ever,...

The gap between funding and belonging at Oxford

Oxford is keen to tell a particular story about itself: that it is open,...

I became more at home when I left home

I never felt more at home than when I was living thousands of miles...

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

Not so supertrees after all

Cities may never provide havens for the natural world

Farage appointed to key rolls in the Foreign Office

Breaking: Stephen Hawes reports on the groundbreaking popular face the government is using to rebrand the country

Profile: Gina Miller

Gina Miller has every reason to be fearful. Over the festive period, rather than Christmas cards and messages from well-wishers, the 51-year-old investment manager...

Sturgeon attempts to sell favourite horse

Tony Campbell with a Cherwell exclusive on Nicola Sturgeon’s plans for Scotland. Will Theresa May let history repeat itself?

What Labour can learn from Tony Blair

Aimee Reynolds gets to the crux of the matter: Blair and football

Why Oxford should resist the NSS

The National Student Survey will have dire consequences for students, says Lily MacTaggart

Let’s be positive about 2017

Jordan Bernstein offers a positive outlook on 2017, hoping that it will counter the excitement of 2016 and be dull, tedious, and uneventful

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