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Thursday 17th July 2025
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This is how we combat the crusade against universities
Elite college students can’t read. The university wage premium has significantly declined. The young are unable to fulfil the requirements of an intensive academic degree, and even if they...
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Morien Robertson
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From pensioners to students, all should fear the Palestine Action ban
I do not support Palestine Action. No one can after midnight on Saturday the...
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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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The Language Faculty is promoting intelligence, not artifice
Isaac Asimov’s fantastic short story ‘The Last Question’ has always struck me as vaguely...
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Lloyd Doré-Green
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Unheard Oxford: Laura Cracknell, Pembroke Librarian
Another view on the dreaming spires. This week, Sophie Dowle talks to Laura Cracknell, the Pembroke librarian
Interview: Khalid Abdel-Hadi
The founder of Jordan’s first LGBTQ+ magazine discusses the challenges facing the community
Do we wrongly hate hypocrisy?
Ben Evans questions the usefulness of our frequent charges of hypocrisy
Debate: ‘are Oxford degrees valued too highly?’
Just like any other university, or a hotbed of opportunity? Akshay Bilolikar and Alec Fullerton argue whether Oxford's pitfalls outweigh its benefits.
Rights? What rights? The way Europe treats refugees is wrong
Rose Vennin witnesses the powerlessness that pervades Greece’s ports and asks why we still respond to refugees with fear
Why CUSU should not end TCS’s print edition
It’s not every day that an Oxford student newspaper will defend a rival, let alone one written by our upstart cousins from that small,...
Should Europe care about Trump?
Zachary Klamann discusses whether Europeans have cause to protest against Trump
Let’s talk about Boko Haram
Alex Walker remarks on the lack of coverage of human rights abuses committed by groups outside Eurasia
Free speech French style
Alec Fullerton revisits Voltaire in light of the NUS policy of no-platforming
Helping others, free of cost
Libros Para Niños is a non-profit organisation with the intent of setting up potential volunteers with volunteering opportunities free of charge
Purges and politics in cyberspace
Alex Walker talks through the fallout of the Open Oxford controversy with those involved
Fighting terror with perspective
Colin Donnelly recounts the atmosphere in Istanbul following the recent terror attack and explores the perils of overreaction
Calais: the camp of forgotten conflicts
Sophie Dowle shares her experience of the Calais camp and explains the unremembered struggles that lie at its heart
A time for European solidarity
Franco-Belgian student Olivier Santin reflects on questions of identity and the need for greater European unity in light of the Brussels attacks
Brussels: An attack on Europe
Antonio Gottardello reflects on the nature and the intentions behind the Brussels terror attacks
Grumbling gets access nowhere
Charles Clegg argues that impressions of Oxford as a posh boys' club are misleading and hamper efforts to widen access
A troubling relationship: the UK and Saudi Arabia
Alex Walker examines the government's refusal to face up to Saudi Arabia's appalling human rights record
The dangerous ignorance of Baroness Bakewell
Róisín McCallion explains the willful inaccuracy and potential harmfulness of Baroness Bakewell's comments on the condition
What next for OULC?
OULC's newly elected BME Officer argues that student politics is not a game and highlights the need for the Club to revive its campaigning mission
Is Oxford still a posh boys’ club?
Jack Morrison interrogates the social dominance of public schoolboys and Oxford's culture of exclusivity
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