‘We’ve just got to push the reset button’: Lord Peter Mandelson on Labour, Europe and Modern Communications
‘We’ve just got to push the reset button’: Lord Peter Mandelson on Labour, Europe and Modern Communications
“It’s clear that Governments need to govern, that people want them to govern, and that they need to make these important decisions.” – In Conversation with George Monbiot
Comment·23rd January 2023The Duality of Decisions Day Tara Earley Another year, another day of fateful decisions to be received by prospective Oxford applicants. The tenth of January was designated...Read More
Comment·18th January 2023NHS: New Health Service Daniel Harrison The words ‘crisis’ and ‘unprecedented’ are so often overused by the commentariat, yet a glance at history for longer than...Read More
Comment·15th January 2023Fifteenth Time Lucky Johan Orly The only winner from Kevin McCarthy’s pyrrhic victory is extremism in American politics. Expect a Republican conference – and a...Read More
Comment·15th December 2022Executing protesters: How the Iranian dictatorship took crackdown to a new level Ali Khosravi On Thursday 8th December, the Iranian authorities confirmed the execution of one of the arrested protesters which they had charged...Read More
Comment·25th November 2022Why you should befriend your political opponents Ali Khosravi We live in politically polarised times. And there is no shortage of literature attempting to diagnose or prescribe for our...Read More
Features·23rd November 2022No Guns, No Fear: Why Oxford Feels so Safe to an American Exchange Student Anna Lee TW: Gun Violence, School Shootings On Wednesday, the 2nd of November, Nikolas Cruz was sentenced to life in prison...Read More
Comment·19th November 2022Brewdog with the perfect brew at Qatar 2022 Matthew Holland What attracted me to buying my first ever Brewdog beer (a pint of Punk IPA), was the fact that their...Read More
Comment·8th November 2022Why COP27’s Climate Finance Discussions Must Prioritize Africa Anna Lee The COP27 summit officially commenced this Sunday, marking the 30th anniversary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change....Read More
Comment·3rd November 2022Britain Enters its Weimar Era Matthew Holland With trust in politicians at an all-time low, 3 Prime Ministers in a matter of months, MPs being physically forced...Read More
Comment·27th October 2022Despite the crackdown, the Iranian protesters give me hope Ali Khosravi When the English philosopher, John Gray, went on BBC Radio Four’s Desert Island Discs to talk about his life and...Read More
Comment·19th January 2023Excuse Me Sir, Where Can I Find Global Britain? Ali Khosravi On the 14th of January 2023, a British citizen who had been imprisoned on trumped-up spying charges in Iran since...Read More
Sport·16th January 2023Chris Kamara fully deserves his MBE Bradley Beck There are many sporting photos so iconic that you can instinctively hear the event that caused them – Chris Kamara...Read More
Comment·24th December 2022Not so Dishi Rishi? Freddy Foulston In the run up to Christmas this year, marking two months since his takeover from the not quite lettuce-defying premiership...Read More
News·29th November 2022Opportunism and Falseness at Oxford: A Satirical Perspective Matthew Holland A good friend recently said to me that anger is a good motivator and that often it can help fuel...Read More
Comment·23rd November 2022The Role of Sports in Iran’s Protests Anna Lee Since the murder of Mahsa Amini on the 13th of September, 2022, there have been nonstop protests and demonstrations across...Read More
University News·19th November 2022Oxford thinks woke culture has gone too far Anvee Bhutani In the last several years, Universities have become a hotbed for debates over free speech with concerns over censorship and...Read More
Comment·9th November 2022A Defence of the House of Lords Adam Arnfield Twenty-five years ago, New Labour were first let loose on the British constitution, and Tony Blair, America’s poodle, set about...Read More
Features·7th November 2022The University of Oxford: A medieval University in the 21st century Dominic Enright In the mid 13th century ,250 years before the Protestant Reformation, the first colleges of Oxford were founded. The University...Read More
Comment·28th October 2022I’m glad you didn’t get a spring week Rose Henderson How easy is it to sell your soul? Whether you’re a fresher or a returning university veteran, I’m sure you’re...Read More