A leftover COVID system is stymying the freedom and spontaneity students need. Colleges should give it up and let us choose.
In 2020, as the world hurtled towards COVID, Oxford...
TW: Sexual harassment, sexual abuse, child pornography
‘Would you like a date?’ my tutor asked me plainly
as our tutorial drew to a close. Stomach dropping...
TW: Racism
When Emmett Till’s 14-year-old body was exhumed from the Tallahatchie River and laid to rest, his mother insisted on an open-casket funeral....
TW: Racism
The early 19th century saw the introduction of minstrel shows and their quick and steady spread across the United States and Britain. Minstrel...
A
recent headline warned ‘it’s time for Boris to tackle the tyrannical silencing
of free speech on our campuses’. Having not realised I was studying in...
Seeing the Daily Mail and The Guardian seemingly
in agreement on a political scandal can only be described as a strange
phenomenon. Yet this is exactly...
In the midst of a global
pandemic, another
dangerous crisis is emerging on British soil. This time, Day Zero will be the 25th
of June. Unless action...
Holly Holiday from Glee consciously uncoupling from
her brain stem has become the definitive image of Steven Soderbergh’s 2011
pandemic-based thriller, Contagion. Yes, Contagion, you know,...
Most Oxford students’ lives right now are defined by
uncertainty. Will we be faced with an online Michaelmas as well as Trinity? When will we
be able...
If trigger warnings can be ignored by those who don't need them and are essential to those that do, why do they continue to be a source of controversy?
In the days of the recent COVID-19 pandemic, the US has become the new foreground of transmission. 475,000 Americans were infected, with 18,000 fatalities...
Boris Johnson addressed the decade old issue of underfunding
the health service on Easter Sunday. “Our NHS is the beating heart of this
country - it...
