• Cameron Visits Ukraine But Concerns Are Increasing About US Future Aid

    Following David Cameron's return to the UK government during Sunak's reshuffle of the cabinet, the new foreign secretary made his first overseas trip to Ukraine on Thursday 16th November....
  • Why High Speed Two Isn’t the Way Forward for the North

    While the government is pushing full steam ahead with its development of high speed two rail, creating a so called ‘northern power house’ there is clear evidence to see that high speed two would have irrevocable damage on the North, rather than the aim of improving the north’s economy....
  • The End of Fracking in the UK

    Last week, the government suspended fracking operations in the UK indefinitely. This being the second time in ten years marks a possible dead-end for the many companies that have sought to cash in on the fossil-fuel technique over the past decade. Business Secretary Andrea Leadsom announced the halt after...
  • You’re wasting your time!

    Scrolling through various student publications, it won’t be long before you stumble upon an article that may as well be titled My Uni Is Better Than Your Uni Because I Go Here, with a considerable number of these articles essentially doing little more than listing all the reasons Oxford...
  • Alex Moore: “This is a time for optimism, not just for Tory members, but for the country as a whole”

    No sooner has the result of the EU referendum just about sunk in, we now have a new Prime Minister, after initially being told we would have to wait until September to settle on David Cameron’s successor. And the new Prime Minister, Theresa May, wasn’t keen on hanging around....
  • Will EU Spare Us the Referendum?

    The EU referendum will be held on the 23rd of June. As I write, that is 100 days from now and I am sick to the back teeth of it already. I am well aware that the referendum is incredibly important and will have far reaching repercussions for everybody...
  • Why Do Privately Educated Students Still Dominate Professions?

    A recent study by Sutton Trust has uncovered that privately educated students still dominate top professions. Whilst only 7% of students are privately educated, the top end of professions, including politics, medicine and film, are still dominated by those who were privately educated. Over half the politicians in the current...