EDITOR'S REPORT
OTTO BARROW
It’s been a delight to oversee the return to the first in-print edition since the start of the Coronavirus pandemic last year. The pandemic has and will be a defining feature of my degree, and its consequences will likely define my 20s and the youth of those who study with me. This term in particular has represented a return to normality, with all of the intensity that this brings back to the Oxford experience and politics more generally.
As editor of Look Left this term, I’ve tried to reflect that with the breadth of articles you will find in this term’s edition. This edition looks back at some of the heavyweights of our movement’s past from Barbara Castle to Anthony Crosland. We also look forward, thinking about how we can develop our societies sustainably and in those we seek to elect more generally, to suggestions of how we might reform the House of Lords. Finally, we have a chance to look around at events happening across oceans to the other side of the Irish Sea, and reflect on what these developments mean here in Oxford. I’d like to take a moment to offer my thanks to all those who contributed to this term’s edition. Thank you to everyone on the committee this term for their enthusiasm, with Olly and Anjali leading us back to normality. In particular, may I thank Zed Nott for their tips on how to throw myself into OULC and gave me lots of resources from previous terms and Ciara Garcha who inspired me to stand for the role of publications officer in the first place. Last but certainly not least, I’d like to thank my Graphic Designer, Ella Staddon, who helped me compile this issue hours from the printer’s deadline over cups of tea and chocolate, livened with anecdotes about Shirley Williams’ take on logical positivism and how Yvette Cooper got her first break in politics with Harriet Harman after messing up her tights. In solidarity,
Otto Barrow is a 3rd Year PPEist at Magdalen College.
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