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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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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