What’s the real deal with Oxford PPE?
Freya Jones interviews three PPE students to find out what the degree is really about.
The slow death of liberty
The problem with all these superficially defendable laws is that they fundamentally change our understanding of what a right is.
What are Conservative Party Members thinking?
"What makes all of this even more crazy and difficult for me to get my head around is that the members seem blissfully unaware of just how unelectable Truss is"
Liz Truss promises Oxbridge admissions shakeup
Liz Truss, frontrunner in the race for Conservative Party leadership, has suggested she will reform the Oxbridge admissions system to give all top students...
A very Italian scandal: the story of Draghi’s fall
The uniqueness of Italian politics is its surreal and absurd dimensions.
A crisis on our doorstep: threats to abortion rights are closer than you think
This ‘distant’ despair is much closer than we fear.
The fall of ‘Super Mario’ – Draghi resignation now risks adding to Italy and Europe’s political turmoil
The leaders of Italy’s biggest political parties must, now more than ever, put the interests of their people at the forefront of their minds.
The Trade Union Scare
It is also worth asking: how can workers respond to unjust circumstances and work conditions if their demands are largely ignored?
Where do we go from here? Reflections on a day of chaos in Downing Street
The party is in a mess, politics is in a mess.
Northern Ireland’s three-way split
For the first time since the foundation of Northern Ireland, a nationalist/republican party with the expressed aim of a united Ireland is the largest...
The unbearable lightness of grieving
CW: gun violence, murder, terrorism
This morning, I woke up to the news headlines about the mass shooting at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas:...
In between practicality and principle: a partial observer’s advice for the French left
"When faced with unity or annihilation, it is time to put aside minor differences, and think about ultimate aims – if not for ourselves, then for those who will suffer under the opponent’s policies."
‘Doomer politics’: The death spiral of Russian civil society
"The end of doomer politics will require the ideal scenario of regime change, and then that the West actually demonstrate to Russians that there is a workable alternative to the way their country is run."
Raging against the dying of the light: what the DUP’s predicament tells us about the state of unionism in Northern Ireland
"But on 5th May 2022, when Northern Ireland goes to the polls to elect representatives to its legislature, the DUP is expected to have its long shadow over Northern Irish politics substantially shortened. Polls have consistently shown the party’s leader – Sir Jeffery Donaldson – as the most unpopular of the Northern Irish political leaders, and the party has been embattled by resurgent intra-community political rivals."
