Tuesday 16th June 2026

Opinion

Who gets to build the future: On tech bros

While scrolling through social media, a video appeared on my feed titled “Remember who you are, start-up boy”, followed by a montage of clips of young Mark Zuckerberg and...

Gender is what you make of it

If you ever dare to become an audacious transsexual like me, you may have...

I will not be misquoted into silence 

Arwa Elrayess responds to recent national media coverage.

The sound of belonging: Exclusion through language

Calls for migrants to learn English, supposedly for the purpose of ‘integration’, have formed...

Debate: Has Macron Lost Control?

Proposition - George Beglan The Macron Government, led by the youngest President in the history of the Fifth Republic, has lost all control of...

Brits And The Yemen: Wilful Ignorance?

The British middle-classes are walking idly by, whilst from pretty Menwith Hill, the people of Yemen are being bombed. At the innocent age of twelve,...

In Defence of the Middleman

The recent rise of political polarisation in the West, and the corresponding growth of populist movements of all ideological persuasions, has been widely discussed in recent years....

HS2 Shows the Tories Don’t Know the North

The question of how the Conservatives would keep their new Northern voters has troubles allies and critics alike. For Labour, it seemed that if Johnson decided...

Opinion | Introducing the Candidates: A Primer for 2020

It’s that time again. With impeachment quashed and a bombastic State of the Union Address out the way, it’s full steam ahead towards November’s...

‘Because I Can’: Remembering Diet Coke’s dystopian rebrand in our 2020 dystopia

‘Coca-Cola found a way to convince millennials to drink Diet Coke’ – Qartz.com. ‘An authentic, self-aware Diet Coke that is really inclusive’ – Danielle Henry,...

Radical Reshuffle: Cummings Takes Back Control

To a casual observer reading the past few days’ headlines, the contents of Boris Johnson’s reshuffle of his government would have come as something...

Ireland: Regression or Revolution?

Michael Dolan considers Sinn Fein's surprising success at the Irish election last weekend.

This House Believes It Was Right To Strip Shamima Begum Of Her Citizenship

Will McCathie and Lauren Shirreff consider the wider impacts of Shamima Begum's loss of British citizenship. Proposition: National Security Must Be Prioritised Will McCathie, The Queen's...

Opinion – We’ve Left: Supporting Remain is Political Suicide

The pollster Peter Kellner predicted in early 2018 that 450,000 net Brexiteers were dying per annum. On this logic, he suggested that by 2020 Britain would...

Don’t Panic

When my Mum first met my Dad, she declared to all in the pub that he was “the sort of man that listens to...

Confusion and Chaos: The 2020 US Presidential Election Kicks Off

Bernie Sanders and Pete Buttigieg set to top delegate counts amidst frustrating counting and technical issues As of three days after the Iowa caucus, the full results still...

Blood and Beauty: Kashmir in Crisis

“From time to time in modern history, certain subsidiary situations stand out, apart from the general theme of international controversy”. These words were once...

Why we need to stop throwing money at the NHS

As the battle lines were being drawn for the General Election, candidates began to make promises and, surprisingly enough, the NHS was once again...

Wes Beckett on the Coronavirus

Hilary Term 2020, Issue 2

Samira Ahmed: A Landmark Victory?

Last Friday, journalist and broadcaster Samira Ahmed won a landmark victory in her case against the BBC regarding equal pay. Ahmed claimed that she was being...

Debate: The West Has No Role To Play In The Middle East

Proposition - Leo Rogers When considering as large a question as the West’s role in the Middle East, we should be starting with the bare...

Oxford’s Divestment Shame

There is a certain irony in studying, researching, or teaching at Oxford, one of the world’s leading institutions of higher education. This irony manifests itself especially...

The Army is Preying on our Generation’s Insecurities

TW: Eating Disorders ‘Army confidence lasts a lifetime’. This seems to be a perfectly innocuous slogan. You could even call it inspiring. But look further...

Opinion – Love Island, veganism, and viewer hypocrisy

When I was younger, I used to have no reservations about killing innocent animals simply for enjoyment. My dad used to drive me in...

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