Oliver Dobbs
Oliver Dobbs is a writer and a student at Oxford
The article Cherwell killed
Higher education must stop excluding disagreement
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Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
Is football hooliganism fashionable?
As violence returns to Edgware Road, official insistence that two-tier policing is a myth looks increasingly difficult to sustain
Entebbe and the Israeli way of war
Fifty years after Israel’s most audacious hostage rescue, its legacy still shapes how the country understands security, citizenship and war
Institutional feminism against women
The likes of Julia Gillard and Jess Phillips have enabled misogyny
Running out of autobahn
Beijing’s manufacturing strategy is colliding with Europe’s self-inflicted industrial weaknesses
Adventures in Soho
All the pleasures of roughing it and very little of the actual rough
Save our green and pleasant land
It’s time to stop ruining Britain’s countryside with drab, identikit houses and instead build real places with focus, heart and purpose
The right-wing case for social media
X and other platforms can be vital sources of unfashionable information and dissenting opinions
The last of the fine arts
Hockney insisted on doing exactly as he pleased — and his cigarettes were as much a part of his artistic philosophy as his paintbrush.
How the Southport riots broke Starmer’s government
A combination of authoritarianism and hypocrisy proved fatal
The great recoupling
Our politicians have a bizarre sense of costs and benefits when it comes to energy
