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Milo Donovan wins Oxford Union Presidency after suspended vote count

Milo Donovan has been declared the winner of the election for Oxford Union President in Hilary Term 2027, after the Union released the result of last term's suspended vote count. Donovan, whose campaign pledges included banning hack messages, was last term’s treasurer.
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King Charles III inaugurates the Schwarzman Centre 

King Charles III officially opened the Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities and unveiled a plaque to commemorate his visit.
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Jacinda Ardern and eight others awarded with honorary degrees

The recipients include former New Zealand Prime Minister Dame Jacinda Ardern; actress and theatre director Adjoa Andoh MBE; and literary critic and host of Finding Your Roots Henry Louis Gates Jr.
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Tommy Robinson’s invitation to Oxford Union met with protest: Live updates

Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, otherwise known as Tommy Robinson, is due to speak at the Oxford Union at 8.30 pm this evening at a debate on the motion “This House Believes the West is Right to be Suspicious of Islam”. The event has drawn condemnation from University societies, local politicians, and local faith leaders.
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Old Stagers: Dramatic Irony

Dramatic irony is the tired old cry of ‘it’s behind you’ in a pantomime; it’s Romeo stabbing himself needlessly next to his sleeping lover;...

Last Orders for binge drinking

 by Joe Wellington Picture this: it’s a Thursday evening and overcooking my latest tutorial assignment has left precious little pre-drinking time. However, not all...

Seeing the Light

Stone Gods emerge from The Darkness I have failed you. I am sorry. You lent me the Dictaphone and everything, and I let you down....

Brasenose come close to Cuppers upset

 Magdalen 23 - 22 Brasenose It was almost the upset of the season. Brasenose had finished at the very bottom of the fourth division and...

The Local: Martha Rowsell at The Jericho Tavern

The Local: Martha Rowsell at The Jericho TavernMartha Rowsell’s favourite venue was a retro clothes shop back home in Brighton. ‘I was surrounded by...

Donkey’s Years / Desert of the Real

Oxford and Cambridge are home, not only to dreaming spires, but also to aspiring drama. Donkeys’ Years is firmly fixed in college. It follows...

Rainbow Messiah

Ranjit Majundar visits Peter Tatchell, the man who arrested Mugabe I had no apprehensions about approaching the highly secure abode of the country’s...

Video: 3rd Week Blues Football

Reaction from 3 Oxford Blues footballers, Alex Toogood, Matthew Rigby, and Nik Baker, on their 3-1 win over Bedfordshire University. by Jack Pitt-Brooke and Ben...

More about sausages

Vee vill find a vay of tracking you down! UPDATE: Well done QAZ, you’re spot on. This isn’t an article. You clearly haven’t come across...

The Tippett Quartet, 27th January 2008

Whilst many football fans have their ‘dream team’, I have a dream string quartet, comprising of my favourite musicians and, as of today, one...

‘Wad Words’ Opt-Out

Controversial Wadham zine receives tentative JCR backing

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C24's video preview of 50's rock and roll night Action Stations. Read the full column here.Video by Rachel Williams and Helena Zaba.

College Football Division 2: Trinity v. Univ

Trinity 5-2 University  The race for promotion from JCR Division Two took another twist on Friday, as favourites Univ were comprehensively defeated in...

Dead Mother Cabaret

Rating: 3/5 If you don’t think that death, fisting, gang necrophilia rape (which is difficult with a dead body) and your mother’s magic box are...

For One Night Only

A warning, reader: I have a predilection for eavesdropping. As you sip your pint in the K.A.; as you sip your cocktail at the...

Dangerous Liasons

Although Dangerous Liaisons may be best known to many from the 1980s Glenn Close adaptation or it’s more recent incarnation, Cruel Intentions, ...

Lorry Driver Breaks Down at Cyclist Inquest

The driver of the refuse lorry that crushed an Oxford student cyclist broke down yesterday and cried at an inquest into the incident last...

Tourist knocked down on George Street

A tourist was knocked down on George Street on Wednesday night. The victim, a visiting American, was struck by a dark Volvo as he...

‘A bloke from Warrington selling sausages’

What do the Brits really think of the Germans? I've heard two contrasting opinions over the last 24 hours. Firstly, Richard Morrison's column...
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