Wednesday 4th March 2026

Opinion

We need summer re-sits

Desmond Weisenberg discusses the impact of Oxford's lack of summer re-sits

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.

Oxford’s poverty porn addiction

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

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?

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

Turkey’s road to Damascus

Antonio Gottardello takes a closer look at the repression faced by those of Kurdish origin in Turkey, trying to make sense of the conflict

Facebook isn’t that great after all

Harry Macpherson takes issue with social media's relationship with our student lives

Being evangelical in your support of Trump

Jon Luke Watts takes a look at Donal Trump's presidential bid through the lens of the evangelical Christian far right

Censorship is not becoming the new normal

Oliver Hurcum responds to comments made by Julie Bindel surrounding 'the issue' of censorship and freedom of speech

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