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...

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

No Boris, Churchill would never want ‘Brexit’

Boris might have written a biography about him, but he could not be more wrong about Churchill's attitude toward Europe

Unheard Oxford: Malgorata, a scout at Brasenose

Another viewing of the dreaming spires - Anna Agnello speaks with a member of staff at Brasenose about her routine

The OxStew: arrival of the Ubermensch

Minicabs and everything else to become unlicensed in Oxford.

Interview: Baroness Warnock

Patrick Mulholland interviews longtime crossbencher in the House of Lords, Mary Warnock. Baroness Warnock is a supporter of an 'established Church' and a champion of assisted dying

Profile: Ruth Hunt

Emmeline Skinner Cassidy quizzes Ruth Hunt, Chief Executive of leading UK-based lesbian, gay and bisexual equality organisation Stonewall, the largest gay equality body in Europe.

Profile: Ken Clarke

Freddie Hopkinson talks about Britain’s ongoing role in Europe with Tory front-bench veteran, Ken Clarke.

Ten years of Israeli Apartheid Week at Oxford

Outgoing President of Oxford Students' Palestine Society, Kate Guariento, shares her thoughts on the movement and the strides it has made in the past decade.

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