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?

C+ presents… An extra investigation into the PREVENT strategy

C+ looks into the strategies employed to combat racism at Oxford

“We will not go away— welcome to your first day”

Emma LaPlante discusses her experience at the Women’s March in Washington

Putting policy under the microscope

Josephine Pepper talks to Sir Mark Walport, Chief Scientific Advisor for Government and former Director of the Wellcome Trust

University isn’t for everyone: stop pretending it is

Sophie Burdge discusses the repercussions of increased societal and school pressures to go to university

Profile: Wendy Cope

Poet Wendy Cope on teaching, parodies, and writing what we are all thinking

Debate: Does Oxford foster a sense of community?

Maxim Parr-Reid and Tilly Nevin debate whether Oxford University fosters a sense of community

One thing I’d change about Oxford…Self-loathing

Keir Mather mourns the constant attacks upon Oxford and advises its students to be proud of the University

The ‘Oxford’ scent: a chemist in perfumery

Ruth Mastenbrœk, entrepreneur, scientist, and former president of the British Society of Perfumers, talks to Annie Yu about her international career in cosmetic science, her inspirations, and having a “good nose”

A word from the stalls

Miriam Nemmaoui accosts a teary-eyed audience member emerging from the Burton Taylor Studio, after the final showing of STOP

How can we solve the prison crisis?

Theresa May’s sacking of Michael Gove as Justice Minister was an indefensible blunder, says Matt Roller

Cherworld HT4: A presidential palaver

Charlie Atkins and Harry Gosling discuss the impacts of Trump in Oxford, and the student response to the president's first days in office

The uncertainty of Trump’s LGBTQ+ stance

Louis McEvoy argues that LGBTQ+ rights in America will be under attack, but perhaps not from Trump

Trump is limiting women’s reproductive rights

Julia Routledge says that Trump’s abortion measure will weaken women’s rights and that the UK must intervene

Profile: Frank Gardner

Julia Routledge speaks with Frank Gardner about bullets, banking, and the BBC

A scientific justification for ‘man-flu’?

Maddie Hooper on the suggestion that viruses have evolved to hit men harder than women

The campaign for curriculum decolonisation in SOAS

Leaders of the movement cite the underrepresentation of non-European thinkers and the contributions of Oriental and African philosophies within European intellectual history as the primary justification for systemic reforms.

Grad student: Oxford fails to accommodate perspectives it invites

If colleges and departments are to foster meaningful growth and relationships, they need to accommodate all different backgrounds—ethnic, religious, and socioeconomic included. What I’ve so far seen as a graduate student suggests there remains much to be done.

Ethics of crowd control under assault

To be clear, there is no sanction for violence that aims directly at undermining the legitimacy of the state, and protesters who eagerly vandalise the storefronts that are the livelihoods of normal people should not be free from justice. But failing to engage directly with the arguments of authoritarian alt-right about how to handle riots permits the ascendancy of genuine extremists

Emmanuel Macron assures parents that he is “definitely not having a party”

Tony Campbell reflects on Emmanuel Macron’s attempt to host a “gathering” in his bid for the French presidency

Debate: Was the Obama administration successful?

Theo Davies-Lewis and Felix Pope debate whether the Obama administration was ultimately successful

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