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...

Why social media doesn’t promote social justice

Mark Barclay argues that social media ultimately fails to tackle the world's problems

Sell Us the Truth

Freddie Hopkinson explores the consequences of the recent scandal at Volkswagen

Raise the Pink Flag

Hannah Foxton discusses the fall out of the Corbyn victory in the Labour Party

Time to open up

Emmeline Skinner Cassidy describes her personal experience of the refugee crisis from Syria

There’s a problem in paradise

The growing strain on the refugee crisis' forgotten island

God Save the Queen?

Freddie Hopkinson seeks to understand the meaning of Britain's continued obsession with its longest reigning monarch

The Queen and Oxford: a 63 year relationship

The Queen's 63 year reign has seen the fruition of a rich relationship between monarchy and Oxford University

The Rise of the Right Wing Student

Emily Dillistone discusses the increasingly right wing perspectives of modern students.

From oddity to absurdity

Taco Prins highlights the misgivings of the House of Lords

Beating the dopers: do whatever it takes to win

Harry Gosling argues that lifetime bans are the only way to beat the cheats

Scholar, campaigner, South African: Ntokozo Qwabe

Oxford law graduate, black rights campaigner and proud South African graduates

Debate: Is Jeremy Corbyn the Best Choice For Labour?

As the Labour Leadership Campaign steps up, we ask whether Jeremy Corbyn really is the man for the job

Architects of Oligarchy

Freddie Hopkinson asks whether we are celebrating the wrong sort of architecture for our cities

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

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