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Not all made equal: Why your college really matters
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.
Why the SU failed (and how we’ll fix it)
"Now, just over a year after my election, the SU has announced its Transformation Plan, which has two simple aims: to resolve the systemic issues and unleash the SU’s potential."
Oppenheimer premieres in Japan: What took so long?
Christopher Nolan's Oppenheimer had its very first screenings in Japanese cinemas on the 29th...
Navalny: Man, Symbol, Martyr
"The Kremlin claims Navalny suffered sudden death syndrome, but his body is still being held, making it impossible to investigate independently."
Oxford: A tale of two cities
"There are 2 worlds at knuckleheads, grappling over Oxford’s identity."
The Conservative path to victory in 2024
"How do the Conservatives intend to fight a campaign that current polling and smart money say they’re almost guaranteed to lose?"
Trump, the American left, and political ‘Voldemorts’
"talking about Trump only added to his power and creating endless discourse about him gifted him a status and political validity he did not deserve"
£27,000 for a library card?
'I love Oxford, but I love it predominantly for reasons other than the education'
Sunak’s rollback on climate and the economy
The unanimous agreement of industry is striking: while they might normally be reluctant to directly criticise government policy, the automotive industry has been almost unified in its dismay.
What the RAAC crisis tells us about the state of British education
When the Department for Education declared its concern over buildings constructed with unsafe concrete on 1st September, more than 150 schools were forced to...
Four Year PhD Scholars Programme at The Radcliffe Department of Medicine
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The Queen’s Death: To Mourn Without Love
"I would like to weigh in, a year on, as the child of immigrants from within the British Empire, with some thoughts on inheritance, Britishness, and what it means to mourn."
The geopolitics of speech at the University
"Speech is not simply something that everyone has innate equal access to; it is both a right and a resource that can be controlled and bordered."
Why British politics hates the young
Time and time again, the interests of a youthful many have been neglected in favour of an elderly few. What the young need more than anything else is a growing economy; but for the old economic growth is difficult and disturbing
Protesting with Pride
For those of us protesting, the emphasis was very much on the peaceful celebration and amplification of trans voices and joy rather than the hatred and bigotry Stock and her followers thrive on.
“That’s not misogyny, babe”.
If I were born four hundred years ago, I’m pretty certain I would have been burnt at the stake for being a witch. Being told to “shhh” and how “scary” I looked by a man on Mayday morning at Magdalen Bridge reminded me of this fact. I forgot how ‘scary’ a woman with an opinion could be.
The cutback and growth of Britain’s urban hedges
"There are encouraging signs that point towards the restoration of this fascinatingly ordinary part of British life"
The Case for No: Why JCRs should motion to disaffiliate from the National Union of Students
In the last 6 months, student unions from the universities of Warwick, Brighton, Queen Mary and Reading all voted to disaffiliate for essentially the same matters I am now raising for debate: how the NUS treats Jewish students.
The Crown in our republic
I support the people’s re(s)publica, not a republic of the state. The Royal Crown unites us in a manner that no elected politician can, and in so doing protects our way of life in a way that any eventual establishment of a Republic cannot.
