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Image description: the painting Applications for Admission to a Casual Ward, a Victorian painting by Sir Luke Fildes. Impoverished men, women and children line up outside a police station to prove their eligibility to spend a night in a workhouse. Read Matteo’s last column: https://www.oxfordstudent.com/2020/10/24/the-scarcity-of-politics/ In my last column, I argued that we rarely acknowledge […]
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Read Matteo’s column from last week HERE Image description: Old drawing of British House of Commons engulfed by flames in the fire of 1834 In a 1993 lecture on the differences between political and economic decision making, the libertarian American economist Thomas Sowell famously quipped: “Scarcity is the first lesson of economics. The first lesson […]
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Image description: A drawing of the Statue of Liberty and some people arriving to America by boat. The liberalism I’m interested in isn’t the conventional, American sense of ‘liberal’ – but the older and classical variety. It’s the liberalism that warns against the excesses of state authority and champions civil liberties, constitutionalism and the rule […]
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Judging from the Union’s termcard, Hilary looks set to be a fantastic term for its members, with big names like Armando Iannucci (creator of The Thick of It and an instrumental figure in the invention of national treasure, Alan Partridge) and piano-centric New Year enthusiast Jools Holland making appearances. For us non-Union members, there are still […]
Continue ReadingWhy the current demonstrations in Tukrey are bourgeois protests, not an extension of the Arab Spring.
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