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?

The rebels of Amman

Emmeline Skinner Cassidy talks to some of Amman's residents about what it is like to be gay in Jordan

It’s our BBC, not theirs

Daniel Minister suggests that the government's attitude towards the BBC is largely ideological

The scandal of the Cross

Joshua Caminiti reflects on the significance of the Pope's recent behaviour on tour in Bolivia

Maintaining privilege?

Jacob Williams argues that students should support Osborne's scrapping of the maintenance grant

Let’s be positive about Pride

Patrick Oisin Mulholland considers the future of the Pride Movement in light of recent events

What next for the Greek people?

A series of short interviews reveal how the latest crisis is affecting the ordinary people of Greece

OxStew: Cambridge Historian inspired by erotic fiction

The Historian's new book takes inspiration from E.L. James in examining the Third Reich from Hitler's perspective

The injustice of this country’s deportation policy

James Elliott on why our current system is failing

Why it’s nonsense to say that education should be free

Jan Nedvídek argues that 'free' education is impractical

Why Oxford should free 5th Week

Stephanie Kelley discusses the importance of Oxford becoming more flexible in its demands on students

Debate: Do Oxford students take themselves too seriously?

Tom Foxton and Tom Robinson debate whether Oxford students need to lighten up a little

Rhodes must fall, here and now

Brian Kwoba argues that colonialism is prevalent in Oxford

Oxstew: Union to replace elections with Big Brother

'Turning what is already a farce into popular entertainment was an irresistible corporate opportunity for us'

The International Student: politics in the Netherlands

Taco Prins gives an insight into contemporary Dutch politics

Interview: Robert Douglas-Fairhurst

Ryan Bradley discusses the writer Lewis Carroll and his muse with the author of The Story of Alice

All work and no praise makes Jack a dull boy

Stephanie Sy-Quia argues that a fifth week free would do little for Oxford students

In defence of the Human Rights Act

Amelia Cooper responds to Jan Nedvídek's article on the Conservative's proposals to repeal the Human Rights Act

Why the NUS anti-Lib Dems campaign is wrong

Jan Nedvídek hits back at the NUS Executive's decision to fund anti-Lib Dem billboards in the run up to the election

Why we need a sensible debate over Europe

Jan Nedvídek argues that the public deserves a mature debate over Britain's future within the European Union

Why criticism of the FPTP system is misguided

Jan Nedvídek argues there are considerable merits to our current electoral system and we shouldn't be too hasty to change it

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