Saturday 6th December 2025

Opinion

Distance does make the heart grow fonder

Three months into my year studying abroad, I am reminded why I chose Oxford University in the first place.

We must separate Church and University

Financially, culturally, and quasi-judicially, the Church of England remains part of the furniture in both the city and the University.

It’s time we woke up to the failures of the NUS

The Cambridge SU's disaffiliation is a reminder that the National Union of Students is not fit for purpose

What Britain needs is meritocratic elitism

Want to tackle the issue of social mobility? Look to primary and secondary education, not Oxford University

The West needs to focus on the act, not the method, of killing

The West's intervention in Syria implicitly condones other forms of inhumanity

Bops are for everyone – the themes we choose should be too

Joe Sibley praises the Mansfield Entz team's change of heart

Don’t silence Powell – deconstruct him

We should appreciate the educational value of deconstructing Powell's infamous speech

Oxford should not accept billionaires’ vanity projects

Oxford’s continued acceptance of donations by the super rich like Blavatnik is rotten to the core.

Staff-student relationships are a question of consent

It is naïve to accept inappropriate relationships

There is still power in a union – but it erodes with our apathy

In a society increasingly driven towards division, the UCU pensions dispute highlights the challenges facing worker solidarity

Oxford should not bear all the blame for its access problem

It was recently revealed that only 2.8% of Oxford’s intake for 2018 will come from areas defined as the most difficult to engage in higher education

Involved, awake, engaged – an interview with Nick Farrell

South Africa’s principle uncanniness is in the reflection it gives of our own home nation.

Female lecturers: a rare sighting

Newly released figures on Oxford’s gender pay gap reflect an absence of females in senior university positions

Raising awareness of suicide shouldn’t mean sacrificing sensitivity

ITV's new installation could negatively affect those it claims to support

Oxford needs an education fit for the times

Climate change is shaping today’s world. Oxford’s curricula can ignore it no longer.

Managing an eating disorder shouldn’t entail putting my education on hold

NHS failings mean sufferers are feeling obliged to suspend their studies

Repealing the 8th: a movement for all generations

All generations need to engage in the upcoming Irish abortion referendum

It is time for Corbyn to go

If you proudly announce to me that you voted Labour in the last election, you don’t get it

Kevin Rudd: ‘An apology without a strategy would have been a hollow gesture.’

Ten years after apologising for the persecution of Aborigines, the former prime minister of Australia explains why the current policy is going nowhere

Why I won’t be participating in trashing

What do shaving foam, glitter, flour, eggs, raw meat, talcum powder and silly string all have in common?

I’m deleting Facebook, for your benefit as much as mine

All of us contribute to making algorithms dangerously accurate

Don’t delete Facebook – wise up

We should bring a healthy dose of scepticism to what we encounter online

Britain must take firm action against Russian aggression

Britain's increasing isolation on the world stage makes it an easy target

The great Magdalen bail

It is not just workloads putting students off Ball committee roles

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