Comment·5th May 2019Empire’s Wake: The Mau Mau uprising in Kenya Julian Manieson Image Description: Memorial in Nairobi to victims of colonialism. “Bottles (often broken), gun barrels, knives, snakes, and vermin were thrust...Read More
Comment·18th September 2021Time to wake up: the health risk that could be worse than COVID Jamie Slagel Image Description: artistic blue, green, and purple spikey bacteria appear on a pale green background We all know how much...Read More
International Issues·19th April 2022What Russia’s invasion means for Taiwan Harrison Gates On the 21st February 2022, Russia decided to recognise the ‘sovereignty’ of the Donetsk People’s Republic and Luhansk People’s Republics....Read More
Comment·27th October 2019The Catalan independence movement should look to Scotland’s one Violeta Perea Rubio On the 14th of October 2019, the Supreme Court of Spain sentenced 9 Catalan nationalist leaders to between 9 and...Read More
Comment·20th February 2022A Modern Marxism Is A Humanist One Alexander Beard “Above all, one must be human.” Had the author of these words not been assassinated, her body dumped unceremoniously in...Read More
News·13th November 2019Oxford stands with Hong Kong Rachel Muir Over 50 people turned out in the pouring rain last Saturday, 9th November, to mark the passing of 150 days...Read More
CommentFeaturesInternational Issues·17th March 2019The Vietnam Summit: An end to the “fire and fury”? Evie McCullough On February 27, 2019, US President Donald Trump and North Korean Chairman Kim Jung Un met at the Metropole Hotel...Read More
Comment·8th February 2020Water wars: will Nile nations go to war? Robert Macilraith Image description: Prime Minister of Ethiopia Abiy Ahmed As the West continues to bicker over Brexit and impeachment, events in...Read More
Comment·11th December 2020Why we need to speak openly about miscarriage Bianca Michelle Rasmussen Image description: A crib and a teddy bear mobile. The American model, Chrissy Teigen, and the Duchess of Sussex, Meghan...Read More
CommentInternational IssuesUniversity/Local Issues·10th April 2019To revoke or not to revoke? The Sultan of Brunei’s honorary degree Jacob Harrison, Issac The University is correct to privilege due process amongst calls for revocation – Jacob Harrison Brunei’s new penal code, which...Read More
CommentFeaturesInternational Issues·15th February 2020Macron’s quest for a European Renaissance Jonathan Topaz Image description: French President Macron The recent killing of Iran’s Quds Force commander Qassem Soleimani by US airstrikes sent shockwaves...Read More
Comment·29th November 2020Politics of the Pandemic: Covid-19 and Challenging Malaysian Narratives Dania Kamal Aryf and Ahmad Faris Rizal Image description: The text ‘Perikatan Nasional’ in white, on a blue background, with a rip going through the middle of...Read More
Comment·28th July 2022Musk, money, and a monopoly on influence Tom Elliott On Wednesday 20th July, Tesla released its surprisingly good second quarter results, managing to beat expectations on earnings per share...Read More
Comment·22nd February 2019Pragmatism is what we need to beat Trump – and Amy Klobuchar’s got spades of it Jia Yi Tham Given the already saturated nature of the Democratic primaries, what really matters is to be able to stand out from...Read More
Comment·17th December 2018George HW Bush: Flawed and complex, but worthy of our admiration Oliver Tushingham For many commenting on George H.W. Bush’s passing, his life and legacy have been used as a tool for expressing...Read More
Comment·18th October 2020Trump has COVID? It doesn’t change anything… Charlie Hancock Image description: Trump is shown with a black mask on in the main picture; an additional picture shows Trump with...Read More
Comment·17th November 2018Why Democrats can feel cautiously optimistic about 2020 Nat Rachman Image Credit: Flikr On Tuesday 6th November, I had something of a heavy night. I stayed up drinking into the...Read More
Comment·2nd June 2020“Mad as hell”: America reaps forty years of broken promises Roshan Panesar Image description: protestor speaking into megaphone “I’m mad as hell and I’m not going to take it anymore.” (Howard Beale,...Read More
Culture·25th April 2019Pictures of the Past: Documentation, Destruction, and Duplication Griffin Pion On 9th April, I spent my morning in Notre Dame cathedral. I had previously studied it in multiple art history...Read More