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Saturday 23rd August 2025
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The Encaenia is PR without the public (or anyone else)
Wholesale reform is the last thing Encaenia needs. If only people knew what it is, it would be a well-suited PR exercise for a modern Oxford.
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Billy Arber
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This is how we combat the crusade against universities
It’s easy to think of an arts degree as a fruitless pleasure. But education and academic study are intrinsically valuable.
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Morien Robertson
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From pensioners to students, all should fear the Palestine Action ban
If you think this is a win for one side over the other in relation to Israel’s war on Gaza, be careful what you wish for.
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Ebrahim Osman-Mowafy
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Trashing rules save face, not students
Trashing is banned. But what does the banning achieve except pushing students further from...
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Chloe Smith
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Labour’s Flawed Electoral System
The Labour Party may well be a mass membership organisation. Jeremy Corbyn, however much some want to topple him, was indeed democratically elected by...
Brexit: have you heard the good news?
Some of you may have missed the fallout from the recent EU referendum, which by all accounts was a minimal and rather subdued affair...
Scottish Independence: a referendum too far?
The course of politics, Shakespeare may well have said, never did run smooth. The EU referendum was always going to disturb that path in...
Can 17,410,742 people be wrong?
While some may cry ‘vox populi vox dei’, it certainly wasn’t the voice of any God the people expressed last Thursday.
What now? The post-Brexit situation
Arun Dawson reflects on the aftermath of the EU referendum
The EU Referendum: We must not forget the 48.1 per cent
Freddie Hopkinson calls for a strong pro-EU front after the referendum results
Racial equality in the queer community
Simran Uppal argues that the LGBTQ+ community in Oxford, and in general, all too often marginalises queer people of colour
The human consequences of our border laws
Alex Marshall recalls migrant's stories from his time visiting Campsfield House, which challenge many of our notions of illegal immigration
Interview: Nigel Warburton, best-selling philosopher
Daniel Sutton discusses dialogues, diversity and popularising philosophy with the well-know philosopher Nigel Warburton
Brexit: an academic nightmare
Tom Carter argues that EU funding is vital to British academic institutions and voting out will lead to their intellectual impoverishment
One thing I’d change about Oxford… Greggs
This week, Alex Oscroft questions Oxford's inexcusable lack of Greggs
Georgi Pirinski: an MEP’s Brexit perspective
Toby Williams sits down with the former Deputy Prime Minister of Bulgaria and current MEP to discuss the benefits of the EU for Britain
Jeremy Corbyn: weak leadership and a middle-class fantasy
Toby Williams proposes that left-wing politics, both in Oxford and nationally, is drifting from pragmatic electability to idealist fantasy
Interview: Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis
Daniel Kodsi talks to the Chief Rabbi about crossing the line between anti-Zionism and anti-Semitism
One thing I’d change about Oxford… humanities vs sciences
Olga Iturri Tyler bemoans the chasm that separates the sciences from the humanities
Tom Brake: longest serving Lib Dem MP
Alex Walker sits down to talk with Lib Dem chief whip about his European background, human rights and the Conservatives
Panel discussion: the media and British politics
Daniel Sutton listens in on a gloomy forecast for the future of journalism from a panel of journalists
The Yes to NUS vote hides a real need for reform
Daniel Kodsi calls for the failure of the NUS referendum not to obfuscate the factors that made the vote necessary
Saying Yes to NUS ignores anti-Semitism
Aaron Simons argues that the NUS will fail to reform and that Yes to NUS has led a campaign that has let down Jewish students
One thing I’d change about Oxford: free the tortoises
Ben Evans imagines an Oxford where the noble college tortoise roams wild and free
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