Friday 11th July 2025

Opinion

Trashing rules save face, not students

Trashing is banned. But what does the banning achieve except pushing students further from the centre to more perilous waters? Recently, Brasenose students were threatened with £150 fines from the...

The Language Faculty is promoting intelligence, not artifice

Isaac Asimov’s fantastic short story ‘The Last Question’ has always struck me as vaguely...

Racism tarnished my European year abroad experience

For linguists and lawyers heading across the Channel in third year, an idyllic continental adventure is not the whole picture

It’s okay to hate tourism in Oxford

Tourists are as much a feature of life as a student at this University...

Exploring Space is Worth the Costs

Boldy defending boldly going

Extinction Rebellion: One Year On

"The events of the last two weeks have divulged the reality of Extinction Rebellion. "

Interview: Grant Nicholas (FEEDER)

Talking to Grant Nicholas is like talking to a nice bloke you met at the pub who really likes music. With three platinum records and...

Brexit’s forgotten stakeholders

The British Overseas Territories, while largely unknown to the British public, will be affected enormously by Brexit.

Kurdistan: Betrayed again

"We're the eternal pawns in a toxic game of international chess."

How to almost win a Nobel Prize

It is time to break the illusion of Nobel prizes in the sciences.

Bolton may be gone, but it is the President who has the most dangerous foreign policy

To a president who will not distinguish between national and personal interests, ‘America First’ has only ever meant ‘Me First’

DEBATE: Should private schools be taxed?

Jeremy Corbyn recently called for private schools to lose their charitable status, and therefore become taxed. Is this the right thing to do?

Greggs comes to central Oxford

It's been a long time coming

Interview: Yes Theory

On travel, seeking discomfort, and doing things scared

A conference to remember

Highlights from the 2019 Labour Conference in Brighton

Dominic Cummings: The genius in Number 10?

The ‘erratic genius’ label Cummings has acquired has helped to explain away many eccentric, and sometimes outright poor, decisions.

Stonewall: 50 years on

We must never forget: Pride is a protest.

Homelessness: An Undying Crisis of Invisibility

On a Tuesday afternoon on Bromley High Street, in London’s most south-eastern borough, It doesn’t come as a surprise to witness many of the homeless...

Debate: Should you choose Leeds over Oxford?

As occurs every year around results day, stories are run about students choosing lower-ranked universities over Oxbridge. This year, one student made Guardian headlines by deciding to attend Leeds instead of Oxford. Was it the correct choice?

The Politics of Palm Oil: Emissions, Orangutans and Brexit

It is naïve to believe that boycotting palm oil in the West will make the issue just go away

The Brazilian rainforest fires mean we have no time to lose in tackling climate change

There can be no place for the well-meaning warm words and slow action of the Paris Agreement in the era of environmental emergencies.

Remembering ‘Comfort Women’, survivors of atrocities the world didn’t know about until 1991

On 14th August, Oxford marked the anniversary of the truth about Japanese sex slavery during WWII being revealed to the world.

The new commission is a betrayal of European democracy – but Europe’s democrats must support it

Tough compromises are required to save the dream of a strong, free, and democratic Europe.

Interview: Frank Turner

The self-proclaimed "skinny half-arsed country singer" talks punk rock, politics, and his upcoming album, No Man's Land

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