Monday 25th May 2026

Opinion

Oxford is not an aesthetic

My social media algorithm has successfully tracked my profile closely enough to have figured out where I study. To my regret. For every now and then, I’ll be confronted...

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,...

I became more at home when I left home

I never felt more at home than when I was living thousands of miles...

Trump: a blessing in disguise?

Antonio Gottardello argues that Trump's rise will help create a break towards the left in the US

Unheard Oxford: Dr Francesca Galligan, curator of rare books

Another view on the dreaming spires. This week, Alex Walker talks to Dr Francesca Galligan, a curator of rare books at the Bod

One thing I’d change about Oxford… Collections

What would you change? This week in our new feature Louis McEvoy bemoans the cloud hanging over the start of everyone's term: collections

Can art be effective as a means of student protest?

Indispensably inspiring or never as useful as a physical presence? Simran Uppal and Richard Birch debate the strengths and weaknesses of art as a form of protest.

A Guide for getting the Ball rolling

“It's going to be a white presentation of these places they're trying to represent, full of stereotypes, which is erasing and gross." This was...

In defence of my NUS referendum motion: a response to Luke Barratt

David Klemperer responds to Luke Barratt’s criticism of his NUS referendum motion

Everything wrong with the NUS disaffiliation motion

In a real car-crash of a motion to OUSU Council, David Klemperer, one of Oxford’s NUS delegates and a member of the ‘Oh Well,...

A referendum on the NUS

Harry Samuels speaks to NUS' naivety, calling the organisation "patently unreformable"

MOOCs: the future since 2012

Daniel Kodsi argues that elite brick-and-morter universities will never quite fade away

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

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