A Secret Meeting with The Undercover Economist
Michael Scott chats economics and journalism with Tim Hartford from The Financial Times.
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Akehurst: No regrets and the future’s bright
I wanted to share a few semi-coherent thoughts whilst last night’s historic election is still fresh in everyone’s minds. Firstly, my head hurts. Copious amounts of whiskey, cheap cava, Carling and burnt pizza are not the most salubrious of combinations. Secondly, Reclaim OUSU won- seven of our thirteen candidates were elected. Thirdly, I feel privileged […]
Continue ReadingThe absent half
There has been a curious absence in this latest OUSU election; an almost total lack of discussion or interest in graduates. Although we make up 44% of students at Oxford, graduates often struggle to get a hearing in student politics, and in spite of the increased coverage the election has received this year the student […]
Continue ReadingOUSU deserves more
So I am a self-confessed OUSU addict and got sucked in the way a lot of people do – started off as a JCR rep (because nobody else wanted to do it), then ended up as Chair of Scrutiny Committee, then Chair of Council and so it goes on… At the start, I probably felt […]
Continue ReadingIs it liberating to sleep around?
This week, whilst Lily Allen hit the airwaves declaring ‘I don’t have to shake my ass for you ‘cos I’ve got a brain”, a friend shared with me the story of a girl who had been a few years above me at school. Across the British media, under the banner of ‘Britain’s horniest student’ Elina […]
Continue ReadingLouis Trup: Why I’m running for OUSU and why OUSU matters.
Trup tells OxStu what is wrong at the heart of OUSU and why he is the man to step up and change it.
Continue ReadingDebate: Christianity is dead in this city
Proposition by Domnhall Macdonald You would be forgiven for thinking, when your post-bop hangover is disturbed on Sunday morning by the ringing of hundreds of church bells across Oxford, that we are living in a Christian city. You would be forgiven for thinking that Christianity was alive and kicking when hearing your college choir rehearse in […]
Continue ReadingAll the money just keeps going round the same old houses
Rightmove recently reported that asking prices for houses in London had surged 10% in one month. Yes, one month. Less dramatic increases also occurred in other parts of the UK. The culprit was the government’s help to buy scheme. This provides state subsidised loans of up to 20% of the value of properties worth up […]
Continue ReadingFinding hope at Anti-Slavery Day
Tom Christmas visits the Oxford Anti-Slavery Day demonstration and asks what it’s all about, as well as discussing why it’s relevant to Oxford students.
Continue ReadingDebate: Oxford’s attempts at outreach are satisfactory
Michael Scott and Maryam Ahmed debate Oxford’s attempts to spread the university-message to the nation(s).
Continue ReadingDebate: Englishness is defined by being born in England
Proposition – Harry Noad The English are, by law, a nation. We inhabit this ‘green and pleasant’ land, a peoples originally descended from the Anglo-Saxons of old. In a week where a Belgian teenager of Albanian descent and a twenty-one year old from Stevenage have sparked raucous debate over the definition of Englishness, we the […]
Continue ReadingWhat we do here…
Comment Section Editor Michael Scott talks about the role of opinion pieces in university life…
Continue ReadingWestgate attacks show Nairobi vulnerability
During summer 2009, I watched the latest Harry Potter film in a cushy cinema in one of Nairobi’s shopping complexes, at the end of a trip around Kenya with a group from school. This experience sticks in my memory as a reminder of how connected Kenya’s capital can be with the West. Thus it was […]
Continue ReadingMerkel’s buzz to cripple CDU?
Angela Merkel’s election victory has been widely hailed as historic, on a personal as well as political level: not only did her centre-right Christian Democratic Union (CDU) achieve its best result since 1994, with 41.5% of the vote, but she herself gained an impressive third term as Chancellor of Germany – only the third post-war […]
Continue ReadingThe World to Come…
James Kleinfeld begs the question “What is life all about?”
Continue Reading‘Red’ Ed has finally revealed his true colours
Ed Miliband seriously let himself and his country down last Thursday, says Henry Gillow.
Continue ReadingPorn Filter: An affront to liberals and conservatives
To those following the government debates on access to internet pornography, the announcement of an opt-in porn filter will not surprise, but may disappoint. David Cameron has been hinting that he’d throw this red meat to a social conservative base greatly disappointed in their Conservative Prime Minister legalising same-sex marriage. Yet this illiberal move should […]
Continue ReadingSelf’s senseless view of mental illness
Nicholas Toner claims that Will Self’s recent article on mental illness is a good example of what’s wrong with the current thinking about mental illness.
Continue ReadingBloom-ing Idiotic
Georgia Luscombe tells us why Godfrey Bloom’s ‘Bongo Bongo’ comments were not only insensitive, they also demonstrated how naive the UKIP mindset is when it comes to foreign aid.
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