āThe one who pulls focus is as important as anyone in front of the cameraā: in conversation with Edward Norton
Comment·1st June 2023The failings of the Doomsday Clock Blane Aitchison Currently set at 90 seconds to midnight, the Doomsday Clock has been ticking for over seven decades now. Since its...Read More
Comment·24th May 2023The overstated advantage of bilingualism Henri Abensour We all have that friend who can speak a bit of French. Always showing off, yakking about the many cognitive,...Read More
Comment·16th May 2023Slavery and the British throne: Should the King apologise? Haochen Wang As Charles III is officially coronated the King of England, media attention has, once again, been focused on the royal...Read More
Comment·10th May 2023Do we really want Octogenarian Presidents? Jack Arrowsmith At a rally in Texas during the 2020 Democratic Presidential Primary, candidate Joe Biden attempted to quote the US Declaration...Read More
University/Local Issues·28th April 2023The problem with PPE: Is it the subject, or the students? Leon Wheeler When you tell someone you study PPE (philosophy, politics, and economics ā or posh, prattish, and egotistical, depending on your...Read More
Comment·12th April 2023French pension reforms are flagging democratic failures Maya Lemaire As hundreds of thousands continue to protest across France against the pension reforms, Macron stands firm. In a controversial move,...Read More
Comment·4th March 2023What should Labourās missions be? Dan Harrison Keir Starmer has come a long way from his twelve thousand word essay that was published for the Fabian Society...Read More
Comment·1st March 2023Andrew Tate: The Mouthpiece of Misogyny Tara Earley t/w: mentions of rape and sexual assault Itās been a blissful few weeks since the name Andrew Tate has graced...Read More
Comment·26th February 2023Rewriting Roald Dahl: Dangerous Censorship Lies Elsewhere Yii-Jen Deng An odd thing about the controversy over the new edited version of Road Dahl by Puffin Books is that it...Read More
Features·17th February 2023‘A very archaic law which isnāt compassionate’: The Oxford Campaign for Assisted Dying Anna Davidson Jonathan Tiley, a second-year History and Politics student at St Johnās College, has recently launched the Oxford Campaign for Assisted...Read More
Comment·25th May 2023National misinformation campaign engulfs Oxford Leon Wheeler On Tuesday 9th May 2023, the Student Unionās Student Council passed a motion which resolved to cease all commercial and...Read More
Comment·21st May 2023Oppositional Alternative: Why Keir Starmer needs to present a radical case for change Matthew Holland Me and some of the other editors at the Oxford Student were discussing education reform and alternative routes the other...Read More
Comment·13th May 2023The Case For and Against Abolishing the Monarchy Leon Wheeler and Adam Arnfield The Case For the Abolition of the Monarchy – Leon Wheeler When Charles I was beheaded in 1649, a fundamental...Read More
Comment·6th May 2023Why you donāt have to be a Tory to enjoy the coronation Ali Khosravi The coronation of Charles III on Saturday 6th May will have been the first one to take place in the...Read More
Comment·25th April 2023Your degree might not save you from AI Jack Arrowsmith In 1779 Ned Ludd, a weaver living in Leicester, broke two stocking frames in a fit of rage. The frames,...Read More
Comment·27th March 2023Nicola Sturgeon: a career of āfirstsā (and contradictions) Eleanor Luxton Thereās little that everyone agrees on in relation to Nicola Sturgeon and the SNP, but her resignation undoubtedly came as...Read More
Comment·2nd March 2023How volunteering can save your soul Ali Khosravi The mere idea of working for free may sound counter-intuitive to all the assumptions of the market economy in which...Read More
Comment·28th February 2023Opinion: The NUS has betrayed the confidence of Studentsā Unions again Niall Pearson-Shaul The Oxford Student wants to hear other opinions on the NUS referendum – email us at oxstu.editor@gmail.com In May 2022,...Read More
Comment·19th February 2023Why people lie about society’s greatest threats? Matthew Holland Naive as the sentiment may be, whenever I talk to my mum about politics, the conversation usually ends with her...Read More