Comments Policy

Politics in Spires is about engaging with a wider community, one outside of Oxford and Cambridge, and outside of the academy.  We therefore encourage all comments providing that they are polite and respectful. Disagreement is fine, to be expected, and a necessary feature of an academic life, but in this forum disagreement should written tastefully and responsibly.

Please identify yourself with a username or pseudonym, which should be in good taste.  The oversight team will have discretion to bar those usernames and pseudonyms which they consider unsuitable. If you do not provide a valid working email address (this will not be visible online) then your comment will not be published. Individuals using more than one ID to comment will be banned.

We aim to foster an online forum where anyone feels comfortable to express his or her ideas. To that end we will exercise a degree of editorial control over comments.  We operate zero tolerance towards defamatory, libellous or abusive comments, or any that could be interpreted in this way.

Comments will be moderated by the Oversight Team and so will not be published instantly. We may lock some contributions so that no further comments can be made: we will only do this when our oversight committee believes it is absolutely necessary.

Any complaints, questions and so on concerning the comments policy, including individual examples of moderation, can be sent – in confidence – to the editors at oxbridge.blog@gmail.com.