Editorial: The week in 60 seconds
Much of the world this week seemed to have entered a collective state of denial. In Austria, the British historian Peter Irving was jailed for three years after claiming that the Holocaust was unconvincing and unsubstantiated as a historical concept, and that, to his mind, it was far more plausible that several million missing Jews had instead been living happily under new identities in Israel since the conclusion of the Second World War.
Editorial: A weekend of protest
Oxford students have a patchy history of protesting. Every so often, there is an issue that captures our attentions and fires our consciences. More often than not, however, in the middle of a hectic term, with up to three essays a week and several hours of teaching, Oxford students are more reluctant than their counterparts across the country to get out onto the streets and make their feelings known.
