Opinion

So, the voters are quite clear – the economy, immigration and healthcare services are generally most important to them.

"We view women as something akin to public property that must be regulated as convenient."

When everyone strives to be exceptional, some inevitably end up becoming merely ‘mediocre’. This gives rise to the central problem surrounding academic pressure and the ‘overachiever’ mentality — that while we are fully aware of its harms, everyone still strives to ‘overachieve’, for fear of being left behind, of being ‘mediocre’. 

"...Oxford can quite often be a social bubble which seems to float outside of the real world..."

The struggle for national rights in South Africa has a 300-year-old history. It continues today, as economic and social apartheid is dismantled in South Africa and it challenges Western imperialism.

There have been no protests, no outrage, over the fact that a fascist pedophile, who stood for everything our modern society should abhor, continues to be unambiguously celebrated by the university authorities.

To understand the current election, we ought to understand the things that shape them more than anything – including recent controversies. Be sure, many voters will have them in mind when casting their ballots.

Only the big parties are true contenders for the premiership – meaning one of these two will, unless there is a leadership change, become PM.

The world cannot afford a second term of Donald Trump.

I’d be surprised if Dominic Cummings was the star appearance from the Oxford Union you were expecting this term. Because, from where I’m standing,...

"The emergence of anti-vaccine extremism demonstrated that the ghost of dogmatic individualism lived on"

The days we are living through will be the subject of history books, but the story is yet to be written. 2024 will be a crucial year for the struggles of our time – for the climate, for our rights, for our lives, and for the world as we know it.

Property management isn’t the most scintillating topic for Oxford students to concern themselves with. But in many ways it is the basis of our...

‘The Gulf War did not take place’, declared the French philosopher Jean Baudrillard.