Opinion Archives - Page 22 of 49 - The Oxford Blue

The Mexican-Humanitarian crisis: A telling moment for Biden’s Presidency?

by Zahra Lahrie April 4, 2021July 18, 2021

So Far, So Good: Explaining Britain’s Vaccination Success

by Jacob Reid April 4, 2021April 8, 2021

Why Hartlepool matters

by Jade Calder April 3, 2021July 18, 2021

Changing the way we think about psychological disorders

by Ben Holden April 2, 2021April 2, 2021

Beauty Unfiltered

by Emerald Ace-Acquah March 31, 2021March 31, 2021

Do two halves make a whole?

by Bethan Draycott March 26, 2021March 26, 2021

Colonial Ironies: Xi Tightens His Grip

by Oliver Buckingham March 20, 2021March 23, 2021

Covid-19 and our crippled Criminal Justice System

by Alannah Burdess March 20, 2021July 18, 2021

St Hilda’s Feminist Festival in review: a celebration of women past and present

by Rebecca Hopper March 17, 2021March 17, 2021

Switzerland bans Burqa and Niqab: sexist, feminist or racist?

by Johannes Moehrle March 15, 2021March 15, 2021

In conversation with Baroness Janet Royall

Lucy Pollock Jun 13, 2025 7 min read

In conversation with Baroness Janet Royall

‘I arrived knowing very little about the realities of both Somerville and Oxford, and the amazing complexities of this collegiate university. My prejudice was that…

Exam Stress: Not Just A Stereotype

Dhillon Lalji Jun 12, 2025 6 min read

"For me, one of the most difficult things about exams is that normality goes out the window. Lessons, lectures, and tutorials that defined my week for the first two terms of Oxford life here have now become a series of scattergun revision classes." Image from Wikimedia Commons by Prosa, CC BY 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ilustrando_a_neurodiversidade.png

Exams can be stressful as an autistic person, they can be stressful for any person. A year’s work culminating in that small window at the…

streetlights, part 2

Sharon Zhang Jun 12, 2025 4 min read

streetlights, part 2

“I have this kind of repeated dream where I’m in a car, fleeing from the kind of thing that Clementine Kruczynski manic-pixie-sex-dolls flee from, something…

Is Reading Still Relevant?

Erin Bridgewater Jun 12, 2025 3 min read

Person Reading Book and Holding Coffee

“At a university built on reading, in an age where machines can do it for us, do we still believe reading matters?” Ngoc Diep (Alice)…