Thursday 10th 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...

Tabloids dig their own grave

Jack Harris argues that Paul McMullan's defence of tabloid journalism at the Leveson Inquiry has only served to expose the cruelty of media invasiveness

No reasoning about the riots

Philip Saville looks back at the UK riots and argues that the media and politicians ignored the real reasons for them, to play on people's fears.

The fall of Rome

Amelia Jenne discusses the root of Italy's current financial crisis

5 Minute Tute – The CERN discovery

Dan Short takes us through the recent discovery of neutrinos 'travelling faster than light' at the CERN project

Bahrain’s Battle for Freedom

Leading figure in the Bahraini protest movement Maryam Al-Khawaja talks to Oliver Park

5 Minute Tute- The Eurozone Crisis

Tim Harford, Financial Times columnist, gives us the current European financial crisis in a nutshell

The continued importance of the Poppy Appeal

Oliver Park discusses the Poppy Appeal and what it means today

Welcome to the (very Tory) jungle

Former Deputy Prime Minister and Tory big dog Lord Heseltine talks to Robin McGhee

The scarcity of economic enterprise

We have to rely on a handful of experts to tackle 'the big other', according to Hugh Burns

Education is still worth fighting for

Sophie Jamieson argues that we should be supporting the latest London protests

No time to be complacent

In the build up to tomorrow's protest in London, Nathan Akehurst argues that cuts to university funding are ill-considered and detrimental to society

Justice or barbarism?

Sam Talalay discusses the consequences of Colonel Gaddafi's death

Lord Adonis: I’m a political animal

Andrew Adonis talks Westminster past, present and future to Christine Murray

5 Minute Tute – Nick Clegg

Chris Bowers, Lib Dem blogger, party candidate and author of Nick Clegg: The Biography discusses the leader's political trajectory

The need for free elections in DRC

The region's stability depends on a transparent and fair poll, according to Bill Townsend.

Putin Power

Amelia Jenne analyses Putin's lasting popularity in the polls

5 Minute Tute – The future of the newspaper

Andrew Mullins, MD of The Evening Standard, The Independent and i newspapers, discusses the changing face of the press

The Modern Communication Breakdown

Miles Lawrence discusses the dominance of email in our professional lives

On this day and through the ages

A compendium of news in Oxford history from Michaelmas 2nd week

Fighting for his Father’s Freedom

Joey D'Urso goes to the Union to talk to Pavel Khodorkovsky about injustice in Russia

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