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?

From another Bridge: On the Westminster attack in London

Carolina Earle reflects on the recent London terror attack, its impact on our society, and how we must respond when faced by traumatic events

Martin McGuinness is dead, but Northern Irish politics must go on

Eimer McAuley assess Martin McGuinness' mixed legacy and the future of Stormont without him

How scientists are fixing photosynthesis to combat the coming global food crisis

Edward O'Neill highlights the impending food shortage — and why GM rice is part of the solution

C+: Race and Access

Lowri Howard assesses the university's "encouraging" progress on race and access

C+ Investigation: Race at Oxford

C+ investigates the continued relevance of race and ethnicity to issues of access, fairness and human rights

C+: Migrant rights in Oxford

Emma Christie discusses how Oxford students have been responding to the ongoing refugee crisis

Battling uncertainty with uncertainty is reckless: Indy Ref Two must wait

The case for Scottish independence is just as poor as at the time of the last referendum, argues Emma Leech

How to make the best Oxford pub crawl route

Utsav Popat applies graph theory to the best of Oxford’s pubs to find—and prove—the quickest, most direct way to get your post-practical pints

Returning British countryside to its roots

Reintroducing wolves, elk, and other lost species will shape Britain for the better, says Ben Anketell

Profile: Ian Hislop

Ian Hislop on keeping people angry and a new era for satire

Letting out ‘The Monster’: modern drag at Oxford

Laela Zaidi dives into Oxford's queer subculture: modern drag at Haute Mess and student drag princes

One thing I’d change about Oxford… academic freedom

Michael Shao wishes that there was a little more choice in papers beyond one's chosen subject

Growing up in the segregated South during the Civil Rights era

Carolina Earle talks to Joe Martin about his experiences of growing up in Little Rock, and the search for equality

Shedding light on the star of cell biology

Calum Stephenson looks into the role of GFP in the laboratory and highlights its deep-sea origins

Oxford iGEM team goes to Royal Society’s conference

Zoe Catchpole provides a summary of ‘Synthetic biology: does industry get it?’, with the global leaders of the new field speaking on bacterial perfume, directed evolution, and biocomputing

Is May following Trump’s model?

Samantha Novak worries that Theresa May is using the shock of Trump for her own isolationist agenda

Who will represent France in a new world order?

Emily Dillistone assesses the presidential candidates in an election epitomising the trying times in Europe

SeXX-based cancer

Elena Zanchini di Castiglionchio on the genetic and hormonal basis of sex differences in cancer

Can we measure free will?

Tracking brain activity has called the essence of free will into question, says Johanne Nedergård

Profile: Chuka Umunna

I haven’t spoken to very many MPs before, but I imagine there are few with whom you could launch straight into a conversation about...

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