Thursday 28th 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,...

Female lecturers: a rare sighting

Newly released figures on Oxford’s gender pay gap reflect an absence of females in senior university positions

Raising awareness of suicide shouldn’t mean sacrificing sensitivity

ITV's new installation could negatively affect those it claims to support

Oxford needs an education fit for the times

Climate change is shaping today’s world. Oxford’s curricula can ignore it no longer.

Managing an eating disorder shouldn’t entail putting my education on hold

NHS failings mean sufferers are feeling obliged to suspend their studies

Repealing the 8th: a movement for all generations

All generations need to engage in the upcoming Irish abortion referendum

It is time for Corbyn to go

If you proudly announce to me that you voted Labour in the last election, you don’t get it

Kevin Rudd: ‘An apology without a strategy would have been a hollow gesture.’

Ten years after apologising for the persecution of Aborigines, the former prime minister of Australia explains why the current policy is going nowhere

Why I won’t be participating in trashing

What do shaving foam, glitter, flour, eggs, raw meat, talcum powder and silly string all have in common?

I’m deleting Facebook, for your benefit as much as mine

All of us contribute to making algorithms dangerously accurate

Don’t delete Facebook – wise up

We should bring a healthy dose of scepticism to what we encounter online

Britain must take firm action against Russian aggression

Britain's increasing isolation on the world stage makes it an easy target

The great Magdalen bail

It is not just workloads putting students off Ball committee roles

A separate paper deems feminist philosophy abnormal

Students should question whether the introduction of the paper is necessarily a 'good thing'

Crazy bop at Exeter. But where were all the suckling pigs?

Oxford needs to re-evaluate its disciplinary methods

Feminist philosophy will revolutionise our worldview

The new course is a step towards diversifying philosophy at oxford

Italy heads to the polls, and towards political despair

Despite promises of a new dawn from both left and right, Italy's political landscape looks increasingly uncertain

Reform but still no change

Despite being a society that claims to uphold the values of free speech, the Union makes a deliberate effort to restrict the freedom of the press.

Women’s contribution to science is everywhere

The history of women in science is impressive. We just forget to look for it

Global disasters have local solutions

Oxford council's latest flood alleviation scheme proves that climate change can be tackled on a local level

Tabloid spotlights only keep the real Oxford in the dark

Sensationalist reporting on Oxford sustains the elitism it criticises

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