Sunday 13th July 2025

Opinion

Trashing rules save face, not students

Trashing is banned. But what does the banning achieve except pushing students further from the centre to more perilous waters? Recently, Brasenose students were threatened with £150 fines from the...

The Language Faculty is promoting intelligence, not artifice

Isaac Asimov’s fantastic short story ‘The Last Question’ has always struck me as vaguely...

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...

Life after the election: the birth of a new politics?

Harry Gosling argues that this election has fundamentally altered the nature of the political game.

Results: Cherwell General Election Survey

A C + poll puts Labour ahead by 7 points, though Conservatives lead in Oxford West & Abingdon

Why should Oxford students vote for your party?

Cherwell Investigations asks Oxford’s student political societies to defend their parties’ records and why they deserve your vote

Oxford East: no longer a Labour stronghold

Tom Barrie assesses the make-up of traditionally Labour Oxford East

General Election: What does the expert say?

Stephen Fisher, an Oxford Associate Professor of Political Sociology, looks at the key trends in this election

Has the Tories’ electoral mastermind delivered the goods?

Omar Rana considers whether Lynton Crosby has managed to work his magic for the Conservatives

Debate: Is it fair that Oxbridge has multiple teams on

Patrick Oisin Mulholland and Sara Semic debate whether Oxbridge should be allowed multiple teams on university challenge

The International Student

Marcello Nascimento gives an insight into the drama of contemporary Brazilian politics

Interviewing a robed warrior: Dinah Rose QC

Tom Foxton talks Prince Charles and cuts with the leading human rights barrister.

Migrant deaths should not be used as political capital

Amaka Opara argues that the accusations levelled at David Cameron by Ed Miliband were unacceptable

Oxford West and Abingdon: a key marginal?

Luke Barratt discusses whether Oxford West and Abingdon is as close as the candidates claim and gives a in-depth profile of the candidates running

A retort to ‘Sex, Drugs, and Taboo’

Will Brown criticises Millie McLuskie's article on prostitution in the Netherlands.

The West’s anti-Russia media campaign

Eliza Melkonyan on bias against Russia in the UK media

Interview: Jonathan Powell

Tom Carter talks politics and diplomacy with Jonathan Powell, Blair’s No. 10 Chief of Staff

Debate: Does the Boat Race reflect badly on Oxford?

Hannah Foxton and Ruth Hayhow debate what kind of image of Oxford the boat race projects

John Thornhill on politics at the Financial Times

Harry Gosling discusses the General Election and more with the FT’s Deputy Editor

The Conservatives and dubious economic narratives

Luke Ames Blackaby examines the Tories’ claim that austerity was the right course for the economy

Late to the party: becoming LGBTQ rep at St Hugh’s

George Haggett discusses supporting the LGBTQ community and the aftermath of the 'Queer Bop'

Not Right to Buy

Daniel Minister argues that the Conservative's pledge to extend the 'Right to Buy' scheme will only exacerbate the current housing crisis

Jihad: till death do us part

Amaka Opara considers the motivations of the women who have left the West in recent years to live in the warzone that is the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria

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