Opinion

We need summer re-sits

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

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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.

Opinion Ti-Jean Martin -

Oxford’s poverty porn addiction

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

Opinion Leo Jones -

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?

Opinion Finlo Cowley -

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How did Google pay three per cent tax?

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Lessons from history: the end of the Third Punic War (1985)

After 2,131 years of living on a razor's edge, a 1985 'treaty of friendship' marked the end of the Third Punic War. Simran Uppal explains the significance of this long-awaited signing.

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The OxStew: donations and dodgy dealings

Oriel accepts Â£100 million Disney redesign donation.

Unheard Oxford: Utsav Popat, international student

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A vindication of the rights of girls’ schools

Hannah Foxton attacks the stereotypes and stigma attached to women from single-sex schools.

Debate: ‘Is lad culture a problem at Oxford University?’

A benign and increasingly progressive force for ‘homosocial bonding’ or a continuing menace to women? Katt Walton and Bishan Morgan discuss the role of lad culture on campus

Don’t twist the facts: how The Guardian got it wrong

How The Guardian distorted admissions statistics to shame 'David Cameron's Oxford college'

A late bloomer

Daniel Kodsi weighs up the merits of the former Mayor of New York, Michael Bloomberg, and what he could bring to the table as president.

The OxStew: Cellar isn’t working

Queues form for Michaelmas 2020 events at The Cellar

Unheard Oxford: Hassan Elouhabi, kebab restauranteur

Another view on the dreaming spires. Top of the food chain, Hassan - 'the Legend of Hassan's Kebab Van' - has been serving customers since 1996.

Debate: ‘Can the NHS be resuscitated by new reforms?’

Two medics debate the merits of the ‘Five Year Forward View’, the latest attempt to deliver NHS services on a more cost-effective basis.

Profile: Louise Richardson

Tom Hall talks free speech and fossil fuels with newly appointed University Vice-Chancellor, Louise Richardson

Lessons from history: France and nuclear weapons (1996)

Jack Schofield considers the end to French nuclear testing in its overseas territory French Polynesia

Three months on in the city of light

Izzy Savage talks to Parisians in the areas recovering from the November attacks

RMFO: Let’s not forget the lessons of our debate

Whatever happens with Oriel's judgment on RMFO we shouldn't ignore what we have learned

Where now for Rhodes Must Fall?

Faraz Shibli reflects on what Oriel's decision might mean for RMF

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Opinion

We need summer re-sits

Course culling is a threat to us all

Oxford’s poverty porn addiction

Oxford is making you childish

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