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Review: Dancing on the Frontier

Tom Beardsworth reviews Oxford student Nico Hobhouse's first travel novel, 'Dancing on the Frontier: Travels by Land through China and Tibet'

The top 10 best things about going home

Tom Beardsworth explains what's wonderful about escaping Oxford life

How the NUS ‘No Platform’ Policy became press censorship

Will this be the week that the Leeds Student Union lost its marbles?

Interview: Michael Crick

Michael Crick, Channel 4's Political Correspondent, talks hackery with Tom Beardsworth

OUSU is doomed to dullness

Tom Beardsworth explains why only a measly proportion of Oxford students will vote in this year's OUSU elections

Interview: George Galloway

Tom Beardsworth challenges an unrepentant and dogmatic George Galloway

First-Class Ticket Mr Osborne?

Should the Chancellor be forking out for politicians to travel in First or will Standard do just fine?

Fighting for the Tory Right

Graham Brady MP, Chairman of the '22, talks to Tom Beardsworth about grammar schools, Europe and No.10

Could you become a UK citizen?

Mo Farah's Olympic success highlights the idiocy of government immigration policy

‘Life is short. Have an affair’

Tom Beardsworth looks into the murky business of adultery

Interview: James Delingpole

Right-wing author and journalist James Delingpole talks to Tom Beardsworth about the burden of always being right

Foreign interventionism doesn’t deserve its bad rep

Tom Beardsworth defends the doctrine of foreign humanitarian intervention against its most recent critics

Why the Moritz-Heyman donation is a philanthropic waste

Tom Beardsworth explains his exasperation at the ill-conceived Moritz-Heyman Scholarship

Interview: Hazel Blears

Hazel Blears MP talks to Tom Beardsworth about the murky world of internships