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OUSU VP for Welfare Chris Pike has slammed ex-OUSU President Tom Rutland for ‘erasing’ trans and disabled voices in a debate over Tony Blair’s gay rights legacy. Chris Pike, OUSU’s VP (Welfare and Equal Opportunities) and Tom Rutland, last year’s OUSU President, engaged in a heated discussion on Facebook following a disagreement in the No […]
Continue ReadingThis piece was written in response to Harry Gillow’s defence of the Iraq War, also written for OxStu, which can be found here. Harry Gillow is brave, if nothing else – it takes guts to try to defend the indefensible. But guts don’t guarantee a solid argument, and Mr Gillow’s “tentative defence” of the Iraq […]
Continue ReadingTen years ago to the day the first coalition troops entered Iraq; a month later, George W. Bush declared the end of combat operations, against the backdrop of a banner reading ‘Mission Accomplished’. Yesterday, car bombings in Baghdad killed 56 and injured over 200, the latest victims in a decade of violence estimated to have […]
Continue ReadingSam Richardson assesses whether public inquiries have any merit, in light of the recent Chilcot Inquiry
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