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Image Description: the front of Buckingham Palace With 4.6 million followers on Twitter and 10.3 million on Instagram, the Royal Family have undeniably built up a large online audience in the last decade since the palace started using social media as a tool for communication. This is before we even start considering the social media […]
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“When you’re a boy, you can wear a uniform When you’re a boy, other boys check you out” – David Bowie, Boys Keep Swinging There came a point in my teenage years when, without wishing to sound too self-indulgently maudlin, I reached breaking point with my general cynicism, ennui and discomfort. I wasn’t a bit […]
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Meghan and Harry are human beings. They are not perfectly rational, fully-fledged robots or invincible superheroes. Holding them to an obtusely high standard is pointless. I shall argue that we should accept Meghan and Harry’s decision on a moral basis and broaden our perspectives on the Royal Family. It is important to clarify what has […]
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Image Description: Prince Harry and Meghan Markle at Sandringham A British Prince abandons the Royal Family for a life outside of the media spotlight with a divorced American socialite. One would be forgiven for thinking that we were actually in December 1936 instead of January 2020. Yet almost a century after the Abdication Crisis, the […]
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I like to think of myself as a full advocate of democracy. I want to vote to leave the EU because I feel it is a sphere that the people of this nation have little ability to affect. I want to disaffiliate from the NUS because it has extremely low turnouts at elections and still […]
Continue ReadingOn Tuesday Queen Sofía of Spain visited the Talyorian Institute to hear a colloquium from academics and students about Spanish studies of Oxford. The event was organised by Exeter College as part of their celebrations of their 700th aniversary as a college this year. Tutors and students of the discipline from across the University were present. […]
Continue ReadingOfficials estimate around ten million people will attend the 2012 Olympic Games, and I hope every single one has a thoroughly miserable time. Don’t get me wrong; when London first won the games, I was overjoyed. Any occasion when we beat the French is worthy of celebration. But have we really trumped the Parisians, or […]
Continue ReadingFiona MacGregor argues that succession reform is no more absurd than the monarchy itself.
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