Mair Andrews and Stanley Arlidge

Today’s Extraordinary Conference of Commons brought together JCR, MCR and SU representatives from across the University. The meeting was called to debate a motion proposed by St Catherine’s College’s MCR president Xiangyue Wang entitled: “No Hate Speech at Oxford”.

Over the past seven months, some of Oxford’s offer holders have been hoping for their luck to change. They met the academic requirements and demonstrated sufficient intellectual rigour. What led them to fail the test was, instead, the passports they held.

Human rights experts called for stronger legal protections against the risks posed by artificial intelligence (AI) at an Oxford AI and Human Rights Summit,...