Clara Morrissey (Ex-Communications Director) and Sea-Yun Pius Joung are second years reading Theology and Religion at Keble and Oriel colleges respectively.

In the West, we often half-heartedly recount the events of Christ’s death on the cross and resurrection as legends of the distant past. Christians attend Easter services, and complain of feeling rejected or ignored in a post-Christian, secular world. We assume that today, all people share the same privileges to practise their faith. We fail to recognise that Christians across the world are reliving these stories, as Herod lives on in the actions of contemporary tyrants, who seek to oppress, suppress, and eliminate all those who refuse to conform.

Nélson Fernandes Serrão is a first-year reading PPE at Trinity College.

We’ve done it. After several weeks, uncertainty about the rollout and a bust-up with Europe, the United Kingdom has finally done it: we have given out over 15 million vaccine doses. From Land’s End to John O Groats, from Folkestone to the Outer Hebrides, 1 in 4 adults now have some degree of protection against the thing that shall not be named… with who knows how many more having developed natural protection from infection, asymptomatic or otherwise.

Kamran Ali (Secretary) is a third-year reading French and Russian at Christ Church.

The United Kingdom is in the unique position of having shaped the world in its own image over the course of the past two centuries. From Canada to Australia we see our political system thriving across the Commonwealth, and the very root of our own culture, from language to fashion, amplified by the economic hegemon that is the United States. Evidently that puts us in an extremely advantageous predicament, rendering our own relative economic decline much more inconsequential than it is for other similar European states. However, this soft power means that our future in global politics must shift as the world's political centre of gravity moves from West to East.

Kamran Ali (Secretary) is a third-year reading French and Russian at Christ Church.

Spring is a time of re-birth and re-evaluation. Like the many budding flowers of the season, the Conservative Party is ripe for and in need of growth and momentum. Many of us will have spent these past lockdowns and curfews homebound, perhaps with a view to some personal growth as well; reading new books, picking up new hobbies, baking banana bread. There is one rather unwieldy citizen, however, who has done very little of that, and that of course is the Conservative Party.

Enrico Pelganta is a first year reading Jurisprudence at Christ Church.

As UK and EU representatives are discussing the future economic and political relationship between the two government entities, it should come naturally to examine how the idea of a united ​​Europe has changed across the centuries, and, precisely, the different interpretations to which it has been subject in the years before the foundation of the modern European Project.