Author: OxStu Comment Team

[yop_poll id=”9″]   Proposition – Andrew Laithwaite It’s pretty uncontroversial to say that people should be free to pursue whatever pastimes may take their fancy; whatever floats their metaphorical boat. Naturally however, such freedom must have its limits. It is the opinion that such limits are flouted where individuals take recreational drugs of the ‘Class […]

The weather is terrible, I know. It’s the wettest summer since JFK’s assassination/the Norman invasion/the extinction of the dinosaurs, it’s true. The irony of only having brought your summer clothes back up to Oxford with you has transcended ‘mildly amusing’ and reached ‘rage-inducingly ludicrous’. Yes, I know. We all do. And that’s the problem. The […]

There has been a great deal of debate in recent weeks across various Oxford colleges about the presence of The Sun and its bosom-clad third page within their common rooms. Arguments have been raging in JCR meetings about whether subs should continue to be used to pay for a daily copy of the paper. My […]

My name is Maryam, and I’m a Tory. Oof, that feels better. Yes, I am a massive Tory. A chronic Tory, if you will. A love of all things sky blue runs so deep in my veins that my first teenage crush wasn’t directed at some squeaky voiced, pre-pubescent boyband member. No. One rainy evening, […]

Is the collegiate system all it’s cracked up to be? It is certainly something which seems to be by and large immune from criticism, an institution we prize for all the wonderful things we are told about it in access workshops that for the most part are blindly accepted as fact. I certainly do not […]

John Lee talks to Chinese civil rights activist Chen Guangchen.

In April this year, 26 year old Lee Halpin was found dead in a derelict hostel. Halpin had been sleeping rough for three nights, and it is believed that he succumbed to hypothermia. However, it wasn’t just the news of a tragic death that caused this story to hit the national press. It transpired that […]

Those of you who share my on-going paranoid fear that something nasty is going to be said about Oxford in the tabloids may have caught David Dimbleby’s reminiscence of his time in the Bullingdon Club. It was, of course, nothing like the den of debauchery that we all know and love today.  They never “broke […]

In the beginning there was the Word. This Word cast a shadow upon the whole world. In the name of the Word, civilisations rose and fell; old animosities dissolved as new tensions boiled to the surface. The Word is now long dead. But I do not care for the Word and its worn-out connotations. For […]

The Cherwell has published a list of the “40 most influential undergraduates at the University of Oxford”. In doing so, they pre-empted this paper’s tradition of a “Top 50”. These lists are the manifestation of the most ugly aspect of this university’s vibrant extra-curricular scene: the perpetuation of the pale, pygmy fame available in this […]