“NO. MORE. GLASGOWS”: Women’s debating competition to respond to sexism at Scottish final
The Oxford Union’s all-female debating competition will seek to help combat misogyny in debating, after the weekend saw two prominent female debaters subjected to sexist heckling in the final of…
This House Believes that We Are All Feminists Now
Ayes: 125 Noes: 167 Back when the Oxford Union decided to admit female members in 1963, no one in their right mind could have claimed that “we are all feminists…
George Galloway in “racist” walk out
Galloway refuses to debate with Oxford student because he is Israeli.…
The internet is serious business
Internet trash or a legitimate form of art? We debate the role of memes in the the world of modern art. Can I haz cheez burger? Srsly? What if Conspiracy…
This House still dreams the American dream
Proposition speaker Laurence Kotlikoff, American Economist and third party candidate in the 2012 US presidential elections, expressed his incredulity that such a “young, vibrant, hopeful” audience could possibly oppose the…
Would it be a bad thing if HMV folded?
Matthew Jones When the administrators rolled into HMV headquarters just over a week ago, I felt a feeling of genuine loss. OK, the writing’s been on the wall for a…
Adapt, deal or die
Bethany White discusses the age-old argument of book-versus-movie. Currently, swathes of classic and contemporary literary works are finding themselves revamped on screen; Christmas alone has seen the release of Life…
Debate: “The Oxford examination system is a good measure of a student’s ability”
The paper's first debate of Trinity, as everyone begins to gear up for exams. But could the university not be assessing us better than this?…
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