Opinion

If Westminster won’t offer reparations, Oxford should

A diasporic fight that surged with UN-approved ambitions saw optimism dwindle early this month. Jamaican government officials have elevated their call for reparations with a petition to Buckingham Palace....

Opinion Madison Garrett -

Oxford’s new Reform UK society puts students like me at risk

I was too mentally exhausted to write this article, but I grew up watching my mother respond to every verbal harassment we faced on the street. When I once told her she could ignore it, she told me that they are relying on stereotypes surrounding Muslim women: they rely on us to be what they want us to be, silent and meek. It is our silence that emboldens them.

Opinion Saba Ahmadzadeh Noughani -

The hypocrisy of Oxford academics invoking ‘academic freedom’ for Nathan Cofnas

Now, it cannot be clearer: ‘Academic freedom’ is only ever collectively invoked for those like Nathan Cofnas.

Opinion Saba Ahmadzadeh Noughani -

The hypocrisy of aestheticised wilderness

We seem to have been locked in an eternal attempt at domination over nature for millennia. My recent trip to Thailand shifted this into clear focus: perhaps the attempt was never really about humans over nature.

Opinion Ava Doherty -

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

Politics has changed, now the left need to adapt in order to keep up

The left needs to up their communication to credibly fight the right

Where does America go from here?

Zoe Fannon explores how Donald Trump won and argues that American liberals need to step up to their democratic responsibility now more than ever

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