Opinion

What does Pride mean to you? A reflection on identity

I was so excited to connect with the rest of the group through our shared enthusiasm and experiences. Eagerly, I contacted many other queer friends to join. Their responses would soon shock me.

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Balanced by whose standards? Challenging the Pinsker Centre’s Israel policy trips

On 6th June, The Telegraph published an article outlining the abuse and criticism faced by Ben Ashworth, over his visit to Israel. The article describes the trip as “a fact-finding trip to better understand the Gaza conflict”. A closer examination of the trip itinerary, however, tells a different story.

Opinion Henry Bunkall -

The Oxford Union was never about free speech

A private members’ club audacious enough to promote itself as the “last bastion of...

Opinion Olivia-Mae Butterfield -

Oxford’s prestigious reputation deserves scrutiny

I was very close to rejecting Oxford for Exeter. While this is not why...

Opinion Saba Ahmadzadeh Noughani -

Americans in Oxford: a graduate’s angle

The concrete rituals of an Oxford education are easy enough to describe, though their significance is less clear: one or three or more years...

The blackest of Fridays

The coming of Black Friday raises questions about morals and the modern consumerist culture

A perspective from Princeton: the stereotypes and surprises

Jonny Hopcroft discusses being British at Princeton, and cultural surprises which ensue

Visiting from Baltimore: a tale of two systems

David Hills explains his mixed responses to spending a year as a visiting student in Oxford

Thanksgiving at Standing Rock

Across a lonely bridge in rural North Dakota spirals a length of gleaming razor wire. On one side, dozens of police officers stand in...

Peter Tatchell on LGBT suffrage, ethical outing, and receiving death threats

The prominent LGBT rights campaigner talks with John Maier about religious faith, his life’s work and why he can’t retire

One thing I’d change about Oxford… The Gladstone Link

Nicola Dwornik depicts daunting reality in the Gladstone Link

Liberalism can no longer ignore anti-globalisation

Electoral uprisings show us the reforms we must make

Judge not, lest ye be judged: Article 50

The government’s response to the media backlash against the ruling was inadequate

Editing genes: Can we? Should we?

The development of CRISPR paves the way for human gene therapy. Calum Stephenson argues that it is our moral duty to see it through.

Interview: Elspeth Garman

Professor Garman explains how she drives scientific progression from behind the scenes, the Garman limit, and the unintended difficulties with female quotas

Profile: Nicky Morgan

The Conservative former education secretary and minister for women on Brexit, grammar schools and unfulfilled promises

Stanford’s different standards

The academic communities in Stanford and Oxford contrast in attitudes towards humanities

Debate: Should the Union have hosted Corey Lewandowski?

Felix Pope and Freddy Potts debate whether or not the Oxford Union were right to have hosted Donald Trump's controversial former campaign manager

Mr Trump, who do you think you’re kidding?

Noah Lachs argues that it's a damaging fallacy to believe that because Donald Trump's movement is pro-Israel that it cannot also be anti-Semitic

The new left: a sinister disdain for free speech

Felix Clarke argues that the protest at the Oxford Union against Corey Lewandowski exposed the totalitarian underbelly of Oxford's 'progressive' left'

Antibiotic apocalypse

Considering the extent of the antibiotic resistance threat and what needs to be done

Poetry through a rose-tinted telescope

Lily Begg explores the cosmos

One thing I’d change about Oxford… Lectures

Safa Dar would change the mismatch between lectures and tutorial topics

Why there shouldn’t be a General Election in 2017

A General Election is undesirable due to uncertainty in the political landscape

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