Friday 13th February 2026

Opinion

Oxford is making you childish

With rooms cleaned, meals made, and jobs banned, Oxford students fail to experience true independence. Is it any wonder we're so childish?

Is lifetime membership a perk or a problem?

I couldn’t help but notice the sea of grey-haired, geriatric, white, men (mostly), who somehow still had the right to vote at the Oxford Union.

AI applications will quietly revive nepo hiring

When AI makes it impossible to tell what is real, recruiters will return to what (or who) they know. Is this a new age of nepotism?

In defence of the internship spreadsheet

It’s easy to criticise “internship culture”, with its nerves and competition, but it’s worth asking why it’s so contagious.

Corporate Decapitation

Theo Brainin takes a look at our nation's overindulgence of collective responsibility.

Interview: Vince Cable

Vince Cable talks to Helen Smith on student politics, ballroom dancing and why it's time for Brown to go.

Five minute tute: Ending the M.A.D.ness

Director of the Non-proliferation Education Centre Henry Sokoloski talks through the latest developments in nuclear non-proliferation

Race is a laughing matter – so why are we still constrained by colour?

Sophie Duker and Ravi Thambapillai discuss the impact of race in Oxford.

Jade Goody: End of an Era

When we mourn Jade Goody we are not just mourning her, but the end of our spend-fast, instant-celebrity culture

Let Fred Goodwin keep his money

We'll be forfeitting our democratic principles if we don't.

What’s wrong with being good?

A rather unnecessarily large number of people

Tuition fees: take some responsibility, students

Chris Patten’s argument for a sliding scale

Cityboy and the City life

Columnist Geraint Anderson, the undercover scourge of London bankers, talks to Victoria Morrison

Five Minute Tute: All Souls

George Molyneaux, Graduate student at all Souls, takes us through life in the ivory tower

On the lash: Drunken Dumbo’s

The drinks industry is screwing us over. Here's why.

Political issues a step too far for OUSU?

Two sides of the debate on the Student Union's role in politics

Interview: John Redwood

Joe Shapiro has a rather difficult conversation with the Conservative politician and Magdalen graduate

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

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