Opinion

I was wrong. Oxford needs a ‘reading’ week.

In passing, friends often bemoan how their partners at other universities get a week off, mid-term, to, in essence, prat around. The deified ‘reading week’. I have always held...

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The Schwarzman Centre is a commercial venture, not a place of learning

Schwarzman's donation was meant to revitalise study of the humanities. But with cramped libraries and cramped faculties, it's closer to a death knell.

Opinion Morien Robertson -

CalSoc misses the ‘Reel’ point

During my first week in Oxford, I stumbled upon a Scottish third year in...

Opinion Anonymous Scottish Student -

‘Studentification’ is hollowing out Oxford

When redevelopment becomes synonymous with displacement, we must ask what kind of city is being constructed alongside the University.

Opinion Leo Jones -

A Candle in the Wind

Does protest really make a difference?

Dawkins, Einstein, and God

Scientists are wilfully misquoted in the fight against God-bashing

A Bad Week

Creating human-animal hybrid embryos opens a Pandora's box

No strings attached

A more considered approach to aid for Burma

Ethical equity

Sara-Christine Gemson tries to reconcile corporate profits and corporate promises

Douglas Hurd

Thatcher's former Foreign Secretary talks to Rhian Harris about the Tories then and now

A grave injustice

Richard Rawlings questions the 'pornography of poverty'

Another Cuban revolution?

The softly-softly approach to revolutionary reform

Miracle cures or quack medicine?

Rhian Harris argues that we are wasting our money on homeopathy

King of the Commons

Rhian Harris talks to Oona King

Mission Accomplished?

French students still have plenty to revolt about

Bumbling Boris

Chris Baranuik has confidence in Johnson.

Free trade is dead

The cost of food and commodities is skyrocketing. Can free trade still be defended?

Oxford pummel Tab kickboxers

Oxford 5 - 1 Cambridge

Yes, we should celebrate Israeli culture

Jacob Turner offers the Oxford Israeli Cultural Society's response to the Oxford Students' Palestine Society piece published on Friday .

Excess baggage

We are destroying our planet. It’s an idea with which we all ought to be painfully familiar. It may sit uncomfortably with our lavish...

A cruel injustice

In the early hours of 8 March 2008 Alejandro Ordaz Moreno, a PhD student, was seized at gunpoint as he left a bar in...

Celebrating ethnic cleansing?

It is with bemusement and outrage that we find ourselves being asked to celebrate 60 years of Israel’s existence.

Food in crisis?

Lee Jones battles the spectre of Malthus.

Interview: David Willetts MP

Simon Maine talks to David Willetts about the "intellectual renewal" of the Conservative Party.

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