Thursday, April 3, 2025

Opinion

Protect the organ scholarship, protect Oxford’s traditions

Should the organ scholarship be abolished? At the time of writing, 23 of the 43 colleges in Oxford offer organ awards. These consist in a mixture of funding, housing...

What Tate’s case tells us about student sexual violence

The Tate brothers “have each other’s backs” and concerns about a culture of impunity are echoed here in Oxford.

Tutorials are the antidote to declining public speaking skills

We struggle in an era where much of our most important communication takes place in writing

Protecting the weak

Baroness Cumberlege talks to Joe Shapiro about her attempts to reform the Catholic Church

In defence of defiance

Students from the Bodleian sit-in hunted by the proctors have reason to feel betrayed

Authentic Independence?

The disputed declaration of independence by Kosovo

Self-righteous Selfishness

That OUSU should not take political positions

Turl Street Shame

If you’d visited Turl street last Friday

Free: Evangelical Instrusion?

A debate about the Christian Union's recent outreach mission

Jonathan Dimbleby and the future of the BBC

Journalist Jonathan Dimbleby discusses his vision for the BBC with Victoria Morrison

Students’ Best Interests

Inexcusable failings in welfare have been exposed at certain Oxford colleges

Cash for Legislation

Politics Professor Christopher Hood talks us through the shady Westminster dealings

5 Minute Tute: Guantanamo Bay

Professor Goodwin-Gill explains the controversy and future of Guantanamo Bay

Freedom’s Call

David Barclay calls for religious re-evaluation

A self-destructive enterprise

The relaunched Oxford Gossip forum risks damage to friendships

In Praise of the Protest

It is a pleasant surprise to see Oxford students risking Proctors' censure

Self Defence or Criminal Killing?

A discussion of the issues surrounding the current conflict in Gaza

The Price of an Oxford Education

Oxford admissions: coached to perfection?

Don’t Reward Distinctions

The injustice of material rewards

Proctors: Beneath the Gowns

Dr Brian Gasser, Clerk to the Proctors, reveals who they are what they do...

Fighting the Recession

Dr Bowdler talks us through the current economic downturn

Papal Controversy and Media Misquotes

What the Pope said, didn't say and should have said

Interview: Robert Guest

Robert Guest, Economist Washington Correspondent, on his experiences covering Obama and expectations for the future.

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