Thursday 7th August 2025

Opinion

The Encaenia is PR without the public (or anyone else)

Wholesale reform is the last thing Encaenia needs. If only people knew what it is, it would be a well-suited PR exercise for a modern Oxford.

This is how we combat the crusade against universities

It’s easy to think of an arts degree as a fruitless pleasure. But education and academic study are intrinsically valuable.

From pensioners to students, all should fear the Palestine Action ban

If you think this is a win for one side over the other in relation to Israel’s war on Gaza, be careful what you wish for.

Trashing rules save face, not students

Trashing is banned. But what does the banning achieve except pushing students further from...

Not-So-Golden Brown?

The PM still has a chance to make good on his time in office

South America’s Cash Crop

Where student drug-of-choice cocaine comes from

Interview: Tom Phillips

Britain's Ambassador to Israel is reinvigorating the peace process

Interview: Joseph Nye

The West's future is brighter than pundits think

A Candle in the Wind

Does protest really make a difference?

Dawkins, Einstein, and God

Scientists are wilfully misquoted in the fight against God-bashing

A Bad Week

Creating human-animal hybrid embryos opens a Pandora's box

No strings attached

A more considered approach to aid for Burma

Ethical equity

Sara-Christine Gemson tries to reconcile corporate profits and corporate promises

Douglas Hurd

Thatcher's former Foreign Secretary talks to Rhian Harris about the Tories then and now

A grave injustice

Richard Rawlings questions the 'pornography of poverty'

Another Cuban revolution?

The softly-softly approach to revolutionary reform

Miracle cures or quack medicine?

Rhian Harris argues that we are wasting our money on homeopathy

King of the Commons

Rhian Harris talks to Oona King

Mission Accomplished?

French students still have plenty to revolt about

Free trade is dead

The cost of food and commodities is skyrocketing. Can free trade still be defended?

Bumbling Boris

Chris Baranuik has confidence in Johnson.    

Oxford pummel Tab kickboxers

Oxford 5 - 1 Cambridge

Yes, we should celebrate Israeli culture

Jacob Turner offers the Oxford Israeli Cultural Society's response to the Oxford Students' Palestine Society piece published on Friday .    

Excess baggage

We are destroying our planet. It’s an idea with which we all ought to be painfully familiar. It may sit uncomfortably with our lavish...

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