Opinion

Course culling is a threat to us all

Education is valuable for its own sake, Rampant course culls are the result of wrongly boiling it down to economic value.

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Oxford’s poverty porn addiction

It exists in the overly sympathetic sighs of ‘solidarity’, the overexaggeration of comparatively minor and mundane inconveniences

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Oxford is making you childish

With rooms cleaned, meals made, and jobs banned, Oxford students fail to experience true independence. Is it any wonder we're so childish?

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Is lifetime membership a perk or a problem?

I couldn’t help but notice the sea of grey-haired, geriatric, white, men (mostly), who somehow still had the right to vote at the Oxford Union.

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

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

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

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Interview: Frank Turner

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10 years after the civil war, Sri Lankan Tamil community in Paris demands justice

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Should we reduce tuition fees?

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Opinion

Course culling is a threat to us all

Oxford’s poverty porn addiction

Oxford is making you childish

Is lifetime membership a perk or a problem?

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