Thursday 30th October 2025

Opinion

Student voices must be heard

Today’s youth are tomorrow’s future. It’s about time we were treated as such.

It’s time we stopped fussing over university rankings

To combine all the factors that might influence someone’s decision-making into an aggregate score obscures as much as it illuminates.  

The Greens must revive Oxford’s leftist scene

Student Greens are missing a crucial opportunity to challenge Oxford Labour Club's top spot in left wing politics at this University.

Dear summer school snobs, please pipe down

You might not like it, but in an era of rising financial pressures for the university sector, summer schools are not just harmless – they are essential.

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

Bumbling Boris

Chris Baranuik has confidence in Johnson.    

Free trade is dead

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

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...

A cruel injustice

In the early hours of 8 March 2008 Alejandro Ordaz Moreno, a PhD student, was seized at gunpoint as he left a bar in...

Celebrating ethnic cleansing?

It is with bemusement and outrage that we find ourselves being asked to celebrate 60 years of Israel’s existence.

Food in crisis?

Lee Jones battles the spectre of Malthus.

Interview: David Willetts MP

Simon Maine talks to David Willetts about the "intellectual renewal" of the Conservative Party.

Spirit of ’68

You don’t need a copy of Trotsky under your arm to realise that cutting the real wages of our public workers in the face of soaring food-prices is ruinous to human welfare and the services upon which so many rely.  

Church versus state

Was it the Pope's job to engage in American politics?    

Thumbs up for Hands Up

The President of Hands Up for Darfur hits back at last week's piece by Max Seddon.  

Interview: Robert Fisk

Emily Packer asks The Independent's foreign correspondent if there is any way out for the Middle East.

Publish and be damned

James Kingston doesn't trust his daily paper.

Interview: Martin Bell

The man in the white suit on WMDs, sleaze and reporting in a war zone.

Zimbabwe: country without hope?

Nejra Cehic wonders whether there is a democratic future for Zimbabwe.

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