Monday 2nd March 2026

Opinion

We need summer re-sits

Desmond Weisenberg discusses the impact of Oxford's lack of summer re-sits

Course culling is a threat to us all

Education is valuable for its own sake, Rampant course culls are the result of wrongly boiling it down to economic value.

Oxford’s poverty porn addiction

It exists in the overly sympathetic sighs of ‘solidarity’, the overexaggeration of comparatively minor and mundane inconveniences

Oxford is making you childish

With rooms cleaned, meals made, and jobs banned, Oxford students fail to experience true independence. Is it any wonder we're so childish?

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

A separate paper deems feminist philosophy abnormal

Students should question whether the introduction of the paper is necessarily a 'good thing'

Crazy bop at Exeter. But where were all the suckling pigs?

Oxford needs to re-evaluate its disciplinary methods

Feminist philosophy will revolutionise our worldview

The new course is a step towards diversifying philosophy at oxford

Italy heads to the polls, and towards political despair

Despite promises of a new dawn from both left and right, Italy's political landscape looks increasingly uncertain

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