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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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Home Office proposes doubling of Campsfield capacity

The Home Office has proposed a second phase of development to the Campsfield Immigration Removal Centre (IRC), increasing its capacity from 160 to 400 beds.

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New Oxford campaign seeks to demystify genetic and neurological conditions using animations

A new educational campaign developed by the Department of Paediatrics at the University of Oxford aims to make neurodevelopmental disorders easier to understand through a series of animated videos.

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Alternative Clubbing: Narcissists

Have you had your fill of Filth? Is the ‘VIP’ area at the Bridge starting to lose its appeal? Are you feeling unable to...

Union Re-Poll in Turmoil

The Union re-poll due to take place at the end of 2nd week following presidential candidate Krishna Omkar’s disqualification by an election tribunal has...

Organ players

Lewis Goodall comments on the opt-out organ donation proposal. At last, some bold progressive thinking from the Brown government. Attempting to shake off...

Fit College: Magdalen or Oriel?

See pictures here...Magdalen? Or Oriel?

Introducing… Ben Plant, Oxford University Surfing Club

How many members do you have?About 200.Who does the OUSC represent and why should we sign up?The Surf Club’s a great way to meet...

Editorial: Sects and the city

The Bishop of Rochester has said that Islamic extremism is creating ‘no-go areas’ for non-Muslims in Britain. Muslim communities, he says, are making it...

Student soapbox: Social good goes beyond working for charities

The careers that first come to mind for most Oxford students are easy to predict and fall into quite traditional categories. Yet, what job...

Pete’s week

Working terrifies me, so I intend to avoid it forever. I live in constant fear of succumbing; of choking my life away in a...

St. Anne’s student locked up for littering

A first year student at St Anne’s College was arrested on Sunday after attemtpting to throw a bottle of water to a protestor.Jonathan Leighton...

Summer Came in January

January is no one’s favourite month. Christmas has been and gone and emptied the bank account, Oxford’s biting winter cold shows no sign of...

Renewed doubts over college funding reform

Plans to overhaul Oxford’s wealth redistribution mechanism have faced criticism this week as the first stage of discussions draws to a close.oday is the...

Flood Warning for Oxford

The Environment Agency issued a flood warning Wednesday night on the River Thames through Oxford, raising flooding alert levels from flood watch earlier this...

St Anne’s student arrested

The battle of Bonn Square continues this week, following news that a student from St Anne’s was arrested for littering. Jonathon Leighton threw a...

OPINION: Going Nuclear

Recently, the Government gave its formal backing to the creation of a new generation of nuclear power stations across the UK. Business Secretary, John...

Settling In

Are we going up again, or coming back home? Oxford’s short terms are unique. One spends just under half the year at university,...

Figment, The Will Knox Band, Mr Ginger Review

Port Mahon, HT 08 Week 1, 13 JanuaryThe upstairs of the Port Mahon is an unassuming venue – the stage rocks the ‘my best...

Siege in Bonn Square comes to an end

A protester, living in a tree in Bonn Square which was due to be chopped down, was forced to leave yesterday and has been...

Curious gentlemen

I have met many curious gentlemen. I shall tell you about four of them.One.The first was Phil, the heavy metal musician. I went for...

The BP Portrait Award — Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh

Love it or hate it, the BP Portrait Award is back again. It is often either exalted as a wonderful exercise in human soul...

Great Books: War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy

At times, when reading War and Peace, I began to think that the whole book is, in fact, an attempt by Tolstoy to keep...

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