Money Talks...
It is a great shame that Oxford, a University of such worldwide prestige, contains factions within it that are willing to stoop to the level that the Reverend Platt and Mary-Jane Hilton did. The vast majority of dons, almost certainly, would never even consider such corruption. Yet they are still aware of the financial pressures under which the University operates. As a whole, Oxford is in a very difficult position: whilst facing research funding cuts, as we revealed this week, it remains under constant pressure - both to keep up the academic standards upon which its reputation is founded and to develop at a pace rivalling that of much better-funded American and other world-class universities. ...
Editorial: ...But speech is free
"Discriminating and inciteful against Jews". Those were the words of the Jewish Society this week, after Oxford don and poet Tom Paulin unleashed his spectacularly ill-judged remarks on the Arab-Israeli conflict. It's unarguable that comments such as "[Brooklyn-born Jewish settlers] should be shot dead" are inciteful; but, whilst thoroughly condemning the anti-Semitic sentiment in these ("distorted") comments, it remains imperative that we appreciate Paulin's willingness to sound such a striking note of dissent....