Tag: politics

Timea Iliffe contends that regardless of whether the Prime Minister's language can be called racist or unfortunate, it is nonetheless harmful to those it targets.

Proposition - Eleanor Ruxton, Keble College The last election was, for many, the political equivalent of being stuck between a rock and a hard place. Those...

This year’s Brit awards took place on the 18th of February, and did not disappoint as a night of celebration of British culture, entertainment...

“I can’t believe that we’re on the fifth instalment of my autobiography. As usual with me, the three years since my last book, You Only...

George Orwell should be declared a modern hero. The Etonian rebel was an interesting character, for he voluntarily subjected himself to poverty for many...

The assassination of General Qasem Soleimani constitutes not only an escalation in tensions between the USA and Iran, but one of the most significant...

For a man who once helped his friend try to beat up a journalist, calling a December election was in retrospect a rare act of kindness from...

On the night of the 2016 US Presidential election, a group of my friends gathered to watch the event. At our little party, the...

The last three years of politics are enough to make a person want to do some Malcolm Tucker-esque screaming into the void. You can’t...

What happens to satire when politics is already a joke?

Miles Pressland & Joe Davies consider the reasons why Labour saw such a landslide defeat - and the common denominator is Jeremy Corbyn. Miles Pressland A...

Rosie Sourbut is not only a candidate but also a third year English student at Somerville College. I ask her first what it’s...

Dominic Grieve on small "c" conservatism, Brexit and our national identity crisis.

Thirty years ago, the Berlin Wall came down. Any art fan should celebrate that. Not just because it represented a profound triumph for free expression against the forces of authoritarianism and censorship, but because the thing was a bloody eyesore. The grey concrete was awful enough, but then the Berliners went and covered it in sodding graffiti.