News·18th November 2011Debate: Did Berlusconi save Italian politics, or ruin them? Saket Kumar and Anirudh Mathur go head-to-head over whether Berlusconi was good for Italy.Read More
News·6th November 2012US Election 2012: Liveblog Matthew Reynolds, Otis Graham, Richard Smith and Nathan Akehurst It’s the final countdown! The team here at Comment are going to be blogging live as the results come in....Read More
Comment·8th October 2013What we do here… Comment Section Editor Michael Scott talks about the role of opinion pieces in university life...Read More
Comment·23rd December 2014Feminism – what’s in a name? Ariane Laurent-Smith Feminism. On the surface, such an innocuous word, fighting for gender equality- who could argue with that? Words evolve in...Read More
Comment·15th January 2016The Refugee Crisis: A Shared Responsibility Tilly Nevin The Oresund bridge, which connects Sweden to Denmark, stretching from Malmo and Lund to Copenhagen, and which sees 20,000 crossing...Read More
Comment·1st May 2016The 2016 US election campaign: votes not for sale Haley Lemieux In a post-Citizens United America, the amount of money spent on U.S. elections is staggering, making many Americans feel disillusioned...Read More
Comment·17th July 2016A Labour split will be good for British politics George Muscat Tom Watson has said there is an ‘existential crisis’ facing Labour at the moment, and certainly the fallout from the...Read More
Comment·25th August 2016Grammar schools will never solve Oxford’s access problem One of this government’s most controversial proposed policies, now set to be passed by the new prime minister, is the...Read More
Comment·9th September 2016Exploited Services Workers Need a New Labour Movement Thomas Shortall The last few months have seen the disaffected working class become the bread and butter of newspaper comment sections. They...Read More
Comment·11th October 2016Selective schooling is a regressive reform Emma Gilpin Theresa May’s controversial decision to lift the ban on the opening of new grammar schools has been buoyed up by...Read More
Science and Technology·27th July 2012Is free the only future for gaming? Andrew Lewis pithily tells us in a 2010 Metafilter discussion that ‘If you’re not paying for something, you’re not the...Read More
Entertainment·22nd March 2013A Statement Piece Lucinda Toole Slogan t-shirts are everywhere right now. Whenever we read their messages, a part of us relates to their simple wisdom,...Read More
Comment·21st October 2014Why the first debate of the year has left me with little confidence in the Union Kate Welsh As one of the most famous university societies in the world, the Oxford Union Society is one of the...Read More
News·23rd May 2015Paint the town orange Charlotte Lanning At home, a bit of fake tan is an essential for most nights out for me and my friends, especially...Read More
Comment·10th February 2016The Rhodes Campaign has reinforced democracy in Oxford Helen Megone Democracy is one of the things the Western World is most proud of. When our countries come under attack we...Read More
Comment·4th July 2016The Divided Kingdom Max Clements “This royal throne of kings, this scepter’d isle… This other Eden… This land of such dear souls, this dear dear...Read More
Comment·17th July 2016May’s luck might finally run out as Prime Minister Louis Trupia Theresa May has benefitted from good fortune throughout her life. She was fortunate enough to get into a high performing...Read More
Comment·8th September 2016Conflict in Kashmir continues – despite dwindling media attention in the West Shasta Kaul At one point in time, when beginning a conversation about flash-points in the world, one would turn immediately to Kashmir....Read More
Comment·10th October 2016Oxford has come first in the THE World Rankings, but we shouldn’t get carried away Mayu Noda My initial reaction to the news that Oxford had topped the Timed Higher Education World University Rankings was a thoroughly...Read More