Opinion

It’s time we stopped fussing over university rankings

To combine all the factors that might influence someone’s decision-making into an aggregate score obscures as much as it illuminates.

Opinion Alexandre Guilloteau -

The Greens must revive Oxford’s leftist scene

Student Greens are missing a crucial opportunity to challenge Oxford Labour Club's top spot in left wing politics at this University.

Opinion Morwenna Stinchcombe -

Dear summer school snobs, please pipe down

You might not like it, but in an era of rising financial pressures for the university sector, summer schools are not just harmless – they are essential.

Opinion Barbara Dolgova -

Embracing AI undermines academia

By facilitating copious AI usage, the University fails to deliver on its centuries-long tradition of encouraging original thought.

Opinion Emily Henson -

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Our toxically Islamophobic culture is to blame for the Christchurch attack

The shooting in Christchurch is far from an isolated incident, but rather a reflection of broken and bigoted social structures.

Oxford’s term structure is fuelling a mental health crisis

In an ideal world, Oxford would exercise at the very least a benign influence on the mental health of its students and staff. As...

Stealthing is sexual violence

The practice of stealthing is widespread, but the attitude and the entitlement of stealthing is literally everywhere. Not only do men feel they have a right to sex, but they feel they have a right to sex without a condom.

Entitled to return?

Forget it , says Colleen Cumbers In 2015, Shamima Begum chose to leave the UK to join the Islamic State. From that moment, she became a traitor to...

Leave her alone!

Whilst the media are free to report on events as they do, the practice of giving media space and attention to Markle’s father and other family members highlights a darker side to news which we should be avoiding, not encouraging by reading and watching it.

Interview: editor of the New Statesman, Jason Cowley

On the literary scene, journalism, and the current state of the left

Who can afford such an indulgence: Cheap shots at expensive degrees

Last week, The Economist took it upon itself to settle once and for all the debate around which of your mates ‘does a real degree’, which...

A special place in hell?

So I don’t blame Donald Tusk for saying they deserve a special place in hell; it could be hell that is unleashed if they get their way.

Time to emulate Eton?

Abolish: Education secretary Damien Hinds has said he wishes to call time on the phrase ‘public school confidence’, mainly by introducing a programme of ‘five...

On Liam Neeson, sexual racism and the optics of white fragility and black monstrosity

If the rapist had been white, I doubt Neeson would have stalked the streets looking for any white man to attack.

Who can afford such indulgence?

'The Economist's' giddy attacks on an elitist Oxbridge reduce the issue to a caricature.

Interview: quantum gravity physicist Carlo Rovelli

The man who uses his writing to share his love of physics

Changing Perceptions: Contraception is not just a ‘Women’s issue’

The issue of contraception is an issue for all of us.

No squidding! Time to ink again about octopus terrine?

Having a plate of octopus – a food I don’t think any half-educated person should need to have pointed out is not a staple of the British working class – set down in front of you at your first formal dinner at Oxford firmly joins knowing which type of gown to buy in the latter category.

The world’s in dissarhea: the sillier side of life

Turn on the news, open up the paper and prepare to enjoy the strangest show of all – the real world.

The awkward conversation around ‘Privilege’

Exploring the different types and degrees of privilege

Is a college shared a college halved?

Comment discusses the benefits and disadvantages of pooling college resources

Bring down controversial speakers with debate not disorder

Marcus Walford argues against no-platforming after Maréchal's controversial appearance at the Union

Bolsonaro’s most vulnerable targets: the Indigenous Brazilians

Bolsonaro goes beyond viewing the indigenous tribes and the quilombolas (the protected, black descendants of Afro-Brazilian slaves) with racist contempt. He does not believe in their right to exist in a culture outside of “mainstream” Brazil.

Gillette’s advertisement is sharper than usual

The divide between the two runs deep and is, forgive the pun, razor-sharp. It’ll continue to be a daily task to point out that certain ideas of manliness are outdated and simply unacceptable. But that can’t change without normal men, real men, in fact: all men reflecting on their own behaviour, and taking their own share of responsibility.

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Opinion

It’s time we stopped fussing over university rankings

The Greens must revive Oxford’s leftist scene

Dear summer school snobs, please pipe down

Embracing AI undermines academia

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