Sunday 20th July 2025

Opinion

This is how we combat the crusade against universities

Elite college students can’t read. The university wage premium has significantly declined. The young are unable to fulfil the requirements of an intensive academic degree, and even if they...

From pensioners to students, all should fear the Palestine Action ban

I do not support Palestine Action. No one can after midnight on Saturday the...

Trashing rules save face, not students

Trashing is banned. But what does the banning achieve except pushing students further from...

The Language Faculty is promoting intelligence, not artifice

Isaac Asimov’s fantastic short story ‘The Last Question’ has always struck me as vaguely...

Brexit: have you heard the good news?

Some of you may have missed the fallout from the recent EU referendum, which by all accounts was a minimal and rather subdued affair...

Scottish Independence: a referendum too far?

The course of politics, Shakespeare may well have said, never did run smooth. The EU referendum was always going to disturb that path in...

Can 17,410,742 people be wrong?

While some may cry ‘vox populi vox dei’, it certainly wasn’t the voice of any God the people expressed last Thursday.

What now? The post-Brexit situation

Arun Dawson reflects on the aftermath of the EU referendum

The EU Referendum: We must not forget the 48.1 per cent

Freddie Hopkinson calls for a strong pro-EU front after the referendum results

Racial equality in the queer community

Simran Uppal argues that the LGBTQ+ community in Oxford, and in general, all too often marginalises queer people of colour

The human consequences of our border laws

Alex Marshall recalls migrant's stories from his time visiting Campsfield House, which challenge many of our notions of illegal immigration

Interview: Nigel Warburton, best-selling philosopher

Daniel Sutton discusses dialogues, diversity and popularising philosophy with the well-know philosopher Nigel Warburton

Brexit: an academic nightmare

Tom Carter argues that EU funding is vital to British academic institutions and voting out will lead to their intellectual impoverishment

One thing I’d change about Oxford… Greggs

This week, Alex Oscroft questions Oxford's inexcusable lack of Greggs

Georgi Pirinski: an MEP’s Brexit perspective

Toby Williams sits down with the former Deputy Prime Minister of Bulgaria and current MEP to discuss the benefits of the EU for Britain

Jeremy Corbyn: weak leadership and a middle-class fantasy

Toby Williams proposes that left-wing politics, both in Oxford and nationally, is drifting from pragmatic electability to idealist fantasy

Interview: Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis

Daniel Kodsi talks to the Chief Rabbi about crossing the line between anti-Zionism and anti-Semitism

One thing I’d change about Oxford… humanities vs sciences

Olga Iturri Tyler bemoans the chasm that separates the sciences from the humanities

Tom Brake: longest serving Lib Dem MP

Alex Walker sits down to talk with Lib Dem chief whip about his European background, human rights and the Conservatives

Panel discussion: the media and British politics

Daniel Sutton listens in on a gloomy forecast for the future of journalism from a panel of journalists

The Yes to NUS vote hides a real need for reform

Daniel Kodsi calls for the failure of the NUS referendum not to obfuscate the factors that made the vote necessary

Saying Yes to NUS ignores anti-Semitism

Aaron Simons argues that the NUS will fail to reform and that Yes to NUS has led a campaign that has let down Jewish students

One thing I’d change about Oxford: free the tortoises

Ben Evans imagines an Oxford where the noble college tortoise roams wild and free

Why we should be angrier about access

Rivka Shaw argues Oxford must introduce bold measures if it is to solve its access problems

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