Saturday 30th May 2026

Opinion

Oxford’s exams need an update

In a matter of days, I will face 15 hours of handwritten exams. I will wear a gown that has never truly fitted, because it was made to fit...

Oxford is not an aesthetic

My social media algorithm has successfully tracked my profile closely enough to have figured...

What are children really learning from their screens?

Today, when compared to my own childhood, screens dominate children's lives more than ever,...

The gap between funding and belonging at Oxford

Oxford is keen to tell a particular story about itself: that it is open,...

Alliances with the West

What do international alliances actually mean for big and small countries?

Georgia and the New World

What does America's reaction to Russian operations inside Georgia mean for the future of the land of the free?

A threatening agenda

Iraq's shameful denial of education to its Baha'i community

Girlz gone wrong

The disturbing sexualisation of pre-pubescent girls

Oxide runs out of breath

Is this the end for Oxford student radio?

Dishing out the dirt

Political memoirs are rarely what they seem

Democracy in Africa

What have fifty years of freedom achieved?

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

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