A new year, a new website

Welcome to the new Blog of the Oxford University Hive.

The Hive is a debating and speaker society with its own unique format, quite distinct from Union debating, which promotes genuine and open discussion, audience engagment and is geared towards a collective attempt to get to the heart of the issue. Membership to the Hive is free and we provide wine at all of our events. To find out more about the ideas behind the Hive, take a look at the 'founding principles' section under the index.

The purpose of this Blog is to keep members up to date with Hive speaker events and to provide reading materials and resources for the debates we hold. The Hive Diary will also be posted here, detailing all the major political events, talks and seminars in Oxford for the coming week.

We also encourage readers to comment on the Blog: respond to arguments made at an event or start a new debate, suggest topics or speakers for future events or simply ask questions of the committee.