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Thursday 23rd April 2026
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There really is no smoke without fire
Preoccupation with one’s appearance is to be expected when starting at University. New wardrobes and even newer anxieties combine as the daunting concept of Fresher’s Week approaches. Coming from...
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Leo Jones
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I was wrong. Oxford needs a ‘reading’ week.
In passing, friends often bemoan how their partners at other universities get a week...
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Morwenna Stinchcombe
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The Schwarzman Centre is a commercial venture, not a place of learning
Schwarzman's donation was meant to revitalise study of the humanities. But with cramped libraries and cramped faculties, it's closer to a death knell.
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Morien Robertson
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CalSoc misses the ‘Reel’ point
During my first week in Oxford, I stumbled upon a Scottish third year in...
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Anonymous Scottish Student
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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
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
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