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...

Opinion Lucy Pollock -

Oxford is not an aesthetic

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

Opinion Elizabeth Millett -

What are children really learning from their screens?

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

Opinion Saba Ahmadzadeh Noughani -

The gap between funding and belonging at Oxford

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

Opinion Leo Jones -

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A Decade to Forget

For a man who once helped his friend try to beat up a journalist, calling a December election was in retrospect a rare act of kindness from...

Opinion – Is This What Democracy Looks Like?

Getting Brexit done is now the irrefutable, irresistible, unarguable decision of the British people. These are the triumphant words of our Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, hours...

UN climate talks fail to tackle crisis

Emily Passmore This year’s round of UN climate talks has once again ended in disappointment, with UN member states merely acknowledging that current plans for cutting emissions...

Red Wednesday: Remembering the Persecution of Christians

Christians are the most persecuted religious group in the world. I’m sure many will find that shocking. I did when I first heard it,...

Opinion – Hypocrisy in our Democracy: Why We Must Hold the Tories to Account

Ironically, the one thing we can all agree on is that the United Kingdom is currently divided. Deep inequalities of wealth, opportunity, and a...

Opinion – With its most catastrophic defeat since 1935, Corbyn’s Labour has failed us

Miles Pressland & Joe Davies consider the reasons why Labour saw such a landslide defeat – and the common denominator is Jeremy Corbyn. Miles Pressland A...

Opinion – With its most catastrophic defeat since 1935, Corbyn’s Labour has failed us

Miles Pressland & Joe Davies consider the reasons why Labour saw such a landslide defeat - and the common denominator is Jeremy Corbyn. Miles Pressland A...

Opinion – For the Many, Not the Few

Unsurprisingly, a Tory Prime Minister said it best. We’ve heard a lot from Boris Johnson in the last few weeks and months about 'one-nation...

Why The Lib Dems Failed

On 12 December 2019, I didn’t vote with pride. For me, putting a cross beside ‘Liberal Democrat’ gave me that same sensation as going...

Vote swaps: the heart of tactical voting

As the UK goes to the polls in what is dubbed the “Brexit election,” some Remain voters are going the extra mile to make...

No home, no vote, no option

“Same old, same old as far as I’m concerned,” said 46-year-old Shamen Hazzard, a rough sleeper in Oxford, dismissing the prospect of voting in this year’s...

Interview: James Fredrickson, Conservative candidate for Oxford West and Abingdon

After a day of canvassing and lengthy hustings, James Frederickson is full of energy as we sit down in Leon for a ‘short and...

Transport: an overlooked election issue

Significant investments in public transportation infrastructure will ultimately prove to be the rare policy that is both economically and socially justifiable.

Interview: Layla Moran

I meet Layla in St Anne’s College, right in the heart of her constituency Oxford West and Abingdon, where she has just spent the...

How to get away with murder: claim she consented

The fact that this defence is used so often, and is picked up so readily by the press, suggests that we are resistant to holding men responsible for the violence they commit, and so their victims shoulder the blame instead.