Laurence Cooke

German carmaker BMW Group has paused a £600 million investment in its Cowley factory. The project was expected to create 4,000 new jobs and...

Laurence Cooke reviews Samantha Harvey's 'Orbital', the winner of the 2024 Booker Prize.

Can love exist beyond the boundary of Oxford and Cambridge? Laurence Cooke discusses.

Attending a state comp gives you a greater sense of perspective.

I went to Cambridge a few weeks ago, and attended a Cambridge Union debate on whether feminism and religion were compatible. I should warn...

The University is waking up to the environmental, social, and geopolitical crises of our times – in one sense at least. The British higher...

I was barely seventeen, thousands of dollars of crypto money in, and sat on the 2nd floor of a Berlin conference centre.

Now is not a good time to be a nimby. With the return of compulsory housebuilding targets, it is the new government’s ambition to...

The Oxford Imps Game Show was both hilarious and wacky, the two hosts playing with improvisation extremely well.

"The world’s number one ranked university in thrall to one man."

Students need a more ambitious package of measures that would lead the central university to force colleges to help each other out where necessary. Until then, as the gap between endowments grows, the ‘Oxbridge experience’ will mean increasingly different things for different students. The college system should be a strength of Oxbridge, not its weakness.

The world cannot afford a second term of Donald Trump.

"Rohan Joshi is a star turn as President Nixon. His wounded gait, booming American accent, and measured pace of delivery kept the audience rapt."

European unity – and with it solidarity with Ukraine – is running out of supporters.