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Opinion Archive


22nd February 2016

Europe’s urban policy is failing refugees

A lack of planning and investment in slums across Europe is harming future integration and breaking up communities
22nd February 2016

An ivory tower flying a red flag

Colm Lock takes aim at the Students’ Union and states that it facilitates far too much waste and is not representing the student body
22nd February 2016

No platforming is obscuring the free speech debate

After the controversies surrounding Peter Tatchell and Germaine Greer, is censorship at universities missing the point with the issues at hand?
18th February 2016

We should be neither proud nor regretful of the British Empire

In the 21st century there is no reason to attach pride or shame to an Empire that had nothing to do with us, instead we should be objective about our past
17th February 2016

Traitors in our midst

Colm Lock takes his scalpel to Jeremy Corbyn’s frontbench
17th February 2016

Can Cameron truly scale the wall of prison reform?

Ed John discusses the limitations of Cameron’s proposed prison reform and the overlooked issues that will only perpetuate themselves
16th February 2016

Increased health spending can be Africa’s route to prosperity

Jessica Chow-Lau argues that more focused government spending across the African continent could come more economic development
16th February 2016

Have we reached peak ‘stuff’?

With the decline of materialism is our spending moving towards other services that makes us happy?
15th February 2016

Assange’s ‘arbitrary detention’ gives human rights a bad name

Branding WikiLeaks’ founder Julian Assange’s detention as arbitrary tarnishes human rights
10th February 2016

Is single-payer healthcare the answer for America?

Jessica Chow-Lau on why there are other, more workable alternative for America other than a single payer healthcare system

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9th February 2016

Darknet drug markets are making drug-taking safer

Drug taking could be made safer with legalisation and regulation of the drug market, to give people the information they deserve
9th February 2016

The left-wing case for leaving the EU

Romy Biscoe argues that the corporatism of the EU and the soon to be negotiated TTIP free trade deal make a serious case for leaving the union
9th February 2016

A decentralised NHS would be better for all

Ryan Khurana argues for the advantages of a completely decentralised NHS where local areas would be free to target healthcare provision directly to their needs
9th February 2016

The Rhodes Must Fall campaign must grow up

Some students of Oxford have started a cultural revolution of their own, tolerating nothing that offends and completely disregarding history
8th February 2016

Is Clinton feeling the Bern?

Jack Hughes asks whether Hilary Clinton is feeling the heat as the race for the democratic nomination hots up
8th February 2016

Mandelson loves Manchester: Reasons not to be cheerful about the new MMU chancellor

Richard Heller—journalist, author, and former Chief of Staff to Denis Healey when he was leader of the Labour Party—on the questionable ‘qualities’ of MMU’s new chancellor, the ‘Prince of Darkness’, Peter Mandelson
5th February 2016

BME students still struggle to access top universities

David Cameron condemned the reported statistics that only 48 African, Carribbean or mixed students were admitted to Oxford in 2013
3rd February 2016

How bad does it get before we care?

Tristan Parsons hones in on what we all know to be true. The environment is a pressing issue, but very few people care enough to do anything
3rd February 2016

Trump: To ban or not to ban?

Is debating whether or not a US Presidential candidate be barred from the UK an effective use of our time?
3rd February 2016

We’re all losers in the terrorist name game

Joely Thomas looks at the many names of IS and asks what effects they have