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2024: The year of elections
In his classic 19th-century work Democracy in America, the politician-cum-philosopher Alexis de Tocqueville looked to the democratic system in America with deep envy. In this system, he perceived a...
“Diesmal schweigen wir nicht!” (“We won’t be silent this time”)
Germany’s right-wing factions push forward
In another spectacular repeat of European history, a group of...
Oliver Twist, a Sceptical 9th Grader, and an Orthodox Monastery: The Making of a New Generation in Northern Kosovo
Eager hands reach toward the ceiling as children at the Ismail Qemali school in...
Tristram Hunt: the Politics of Repatriation
If you came here for a vicious takedown or a strident defence of Tristram...
How To Grieve a Stolen Diary
Elizabeth Bishop’s poem ‘One Art’ is beautiful because of its hypocrisy. The speaker exalts...
The iron fist of a former Prosecutor General: The future of Korean politics
It has been more than half a year since the 2022 South Korean presidential elections were held. COVID-19, growing economic inequality, an unfair housing...
Everything I know about (uni) love
During summer vacation, as part of my mission to read as little of my reading list as possible, I picked up Dolly Alderton’s first...
The secret life of a Frat Bro: Debauchery, hedony, and misogyny
The promise of huge parties, limitless booze, and a social scene that feels like it should last forever. The opportunity to join a band...
A Londoner’s Take on the Highlands of Scotland
Scotland is an unknown for most of the English population. Yes, the population is very aware of the dominance of the SNP in its...
How did Truss’ Cabinet become so anti-LGBTQ?
The role of the LGBTQ+ community in politics is a complex one. UK gay rights have advanced rapidly in the space of thirty years...
Why multinational corporations need to invest in African economies
Ghana, known as one of the largest and most stable economies in Africa, is currently in the midst of an economic crisis; its population...
£3.50 meal deals, a cost-of-living crisis, and the same old story.
£3. The sacred Tesco meal deal. The bargain every Oxford student knows about. The day I walked into Tesco to see £3.50 plastered on...
UK Democracy is broken. Here’s how we can fix it.
As a new prime minister enters office after only earning 57% of the Conservative member vote and receiving the lowest vote share of any...
What’s the real deal with Oxford PPE?
Freya Jones interviews three PPE students to find out what the degree is really about.
The Guardian of the Constitution: an institutional look at the jubilee
Imagine you were asked by a visitor from another country, or perhaps even another planet, to explain the unusual activity in the UK this...
How did we get here? Democrats, political power, and the fight for American abortion rights
On the 24th of June, the Supreme Court of the United States overturned Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey, decisions which for...
The life-sucking vampire: exams and the logic of capitalism
Elena Rotzokou makes the case against exams as a mode of assessment, pointing towards their arbitrariness as well as the negative impacts of their all-or-nothing nature. Rotzokou claims that the unhealthy logic of exams cannot be disentangled from capitalist and neoliberal thinking.
Northern Ireland’s three-way split
For the first time since the foundation of Northern Ireland, a nationalist/republican party with the expressed aim of a united Ireland is the largest...
Beyond the Etonians: Simon Kuper’s Chums in today’s Oxford
"If the structure of undergraduate life then had such adverse outcomes and is so worthy of condemnation – and the structure fundamentally hasn’t changed – what does that imply for Oxford now?"
