Author: Fiona MacGregor

Jesus College JCR voted against a women’s empowerment motion for absolutely no good reason. Like the broken dam allowing the river Isen to flood Isengard, the motion was unlucky enough to be inundated by a deluge of petty, irrelevant or idiotic objections, mixed in with a very few valid but minor technical concerns.  While we […]

When  I cross the street, I immediately look to the right.  When I went home the last time (to  Germany’s Liverpool, Dortmund), I handed my passport to the German custom officer saying “Good Morning”. I got into this apologetic habit of excusing myself whenever I’m in somebody else’s way instead of saying “Dankeschön” when someone […]

Laura Cholwill describes the exciting, racy and life-changing reality of a year-abroad experience.

James Marriot sinks up to his eyeballs in nostalgia contemplating the all-pervasive influence of the gameboy on his childhood.

Amadea Kelly-Tagliani takes a look at the members who joined the Bullingdon Club in 1992.

Evelyn Schwenner takes a look at the ‘happy superficiality’ of the 90s.

Well would you look at that. All those smug, witty, overbearing little opinionated teenagers trying so hard to be ironic and sophisticated that they couldn’t find their own opinion with both hemispheres if you drew them a map. As though those twats who write essay-length comments on online articles aren’t enough, it suddenly seems to […]

Iman Sana Teemul reckons that google has gone too far in violating our privacy.

Sarah Gashi takes a look at the issues surrounding the Kony2012 video campaign.

Matt Reynolds and James Restall debate the worthiness of the News of the World, and in what sense we should ‘welcome’ the Sun on Sunday.

Sudhir Hazareesingh outlines the difficulties facing Sarkozy as he attempts to be re-elected.

Alex Shattocjk ruminates disappointedly on the considerable lack of similarity of the Dawkins-Williams debate to an epic wizard battle.

Sam Iles tells us why we can no longer afford to ignore the plight and potential of the country of Somalia.

Fiona Macgregor interviews Jamie Hepburn on Scottish Independence, and the SNP’s other aims and policies.

Anuridh Mathur bemoans the fact that living on Broad Street skews your perspective of distance. Prick.

In our external contribution for sixth week, Chris Skidmore defends the teaching of history in schools.

Alexander Shattock ruminates on the rather sinister, suspicious feeling that seems to be descending on New College.

The debate concerns whether being taught by post-graduate students is a blessing in disguise, or a sad case of the blind leading the blind.

Shozab Raza argues that the USA’s war in terror is more harmful to the terrorised than the terrorists.