
Oxford University should ignore fashionable “moral vanity” and retain the statue of Cecil Rhodes that graces Oriel College according to Australia’s former conservative prime minister Tony Abbott. Mr. Abbott, a Rhodes scholar in the 1980s, has claimed that the university would damage
by Simon Kent24 Dec 2015, 1:53 AM PST0

Students at Oxford University have succeeded in persuading Oriel College to remove a plaque in honour of Cecil Rhodes, an imperialist the university has deemed racist. The College has also applied to the local council for permission to remove a
by Donna Rachel Edmunds18 Dec 2015, 4:48 AM PST0

Big Oil is the new Big Tobacco and must be destroyed in the courts on RICO charges. This is the latest big idea in environmental circles – and it didn’t come from nowhere. It was in fact the invention of
by James Delingpole5 Nov 2015, 6:19 AM PST0

Students at the University of Oxford will hold a demonstration to “demand the glorifying statue of Cecil Rhodes – a brutal, racist colonial oppressor – be taken down” from a historic, grade one listed building. The protest has been organised
by Liam Deacon4 Nov 2015, 12:45 AM PST0

A high profile student activist who has campaigned against “rape culture” has resigned from all political position and barred herself from National Union of Students (NUS) events and safe spaces because she is “unsafe.” She said she had “failed to
by Liam Deacon11 Oct 2015, 5:18 AM PST0

Some will say the relentlessly left wing and snobbish attitude of British universities is a recent phenomenon, but the story of Margaret Thatcher’s snub from the University of Oxford shows otherwise. A lot has been written about the ideological purity
by Sarkis Zeronian3 Oct 2015, 9:24 AM PST0

It’s a beautiful sunny afternoon in the summer of 1985 and three undergraduates are sitting cross-legged in an oak-panelled room high above one of Oxford’s grandest college quads stoned out of their brains on marijuana. Two of us, both called James, are
by James Delingpole22 Sep 2015, 6:10 AM PST0

Britain’s Prime Minister, David Cameron, placed a “private part” of his body inside the head of a dead pig, according to sensational claims made in a new book into the man’s life, authored by former Conservative Party peer and donor Michael
by Raheem Kassam21 Sep 2015, 1:09 AM PST0

The EU-owned European Investment Bank (EIB) today announced that it is handing Oxford University a £200 million loan – its largest ever single loan to a European university. The money will be spent on new facilities and on refurbishing existing
by Donna Rachel Edmunds17 Sep 2015, 8:50 AM PST0

Oxford students have begun a campaign to have a “racist” 100-year-old statue of Cecil Rhodes removed from a grade II listed building, and to “decolonise” the “Eurocentric” curriculum. Student radicals claim the statue of the British businessman, mining magnate, philanthropist
by Liam Deacon13 Jul 2015, 4:43 AM PST0

A self-styled ‘queer and trans group’ stands accused of censorship and racism after white gay and Jewish students were booted out of the “No HeterOx” organising page which blasts the “monotony of cisheterosexism”. According to Cherwell, the No HeterOx Facebook group
by Nick Hallett3 Jul 2015, 7:16 AM PST0

Kanye West delivered a guest lecture to 350 students at Oxford University on Monday afternoon, speaking candidly about his music, his close relationship with President Obama, and his ego.
by Daniel Nussbaum2 Mar 2015, 1:40 PM PST0