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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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Can New steal Worcester’s crown?

IT’S a familiar scenario at the outset of what promises to be another compelling season of college football as the chasing pack look to...

Oxford blow away Tabs at Lord’s

Oxford maintained their proud record in Varsity cricket with a comprehensive six wicket victory over Cambridge in the one-day fixture after the four-day match...

Cambridge dropout denied Boat Race Blue

The Oxbridge boat race committee has refused to award a Cambridge rower a Blue after he failed to complete his academic course and instead...

Catz reign supreme once more

N A REPEAT of the 2006 Cuppers Final, Queen’s/Wycliffe were seeking revenge against Catz, who, although strengthened by Vadim Varvarin and Matt Brooke-Hitching, were...

Challengers aim to stop Keble

THE STORY of last season’s college rugby campaign was undoubtedly the unstoppable rise of Keble from nobodies to undisputed champions of the university. After...

Diary of a Captain: Nick Brodie, President of OUBC

We began our Boat Race build-up on the morning of 18th September, beginning a regime that will take us all the way to the...

Oxford Gallop to Varsity Victory

LIGHT Blue determination posed a tough challenge for Oxford’s polo players, but the Blues’ excellent teamwork and superior tactics enabled them to eventually dominate...

Blues Teach Americans a Lesson on Tour

OXFORD’S rugby players began the season in fine form with an undefeated tour of the USA in September. The Blues defeated a New York...

Feature: Sport In Art

It’s very easy to think of sport and art as two very different, and even opposed, parts of life. There are a good number...

Review: Strawberry Jam, Animal Collective

2007 has already seen the release of albums by the two front-figures of Animal Collective. Panda Bear’s acclaimed Person Pitch sounds like an acid-tripping...

Review: Frames, Oceansize

Returning for a third album of thrillingly expansive prog, perennially underachieving Mancunians Oceansize have succeeded yet again in producing brilliant music destined to go...

Review: In Our Nature, Jose Gonzalez

González found unlikely fame thanks to a Sony Bravia advert which featured his charming cover of moody fellow Swedish synth-pop geniuses The Knife’s ‘Heartbeats’....

Genre Bending: Slowcore

Slowcore as a genre first appeared in the American music press in the late eighties and early nineties, with the advent of indie rock...

2007: The Summer of Cinema?

For many, 2007 was to be the year in which the cinema was the place to see and be seen. With about 80 films...

Brideshead revisited, revisited

Thrilled to be an extra for a blockbuster new film, Guy Pewsey soon discovered that silver screen Oxford is not as quaint as it...

DVD Review: 300

In keeping with the recent trend of films inspired by classical themes, 300 is based on the Battle of Thermopylae (c.480 BC) when 300...

Review: Grand Cafe

The Grand Café, with its opulent – some might say a touch overdone – décor, unintrusive background music, and friendly staff, has an atmosphere...

Why do we kiss?

The thought must have crossed your mind as you find yourself subjected to yet another Noo-Noo like clinch in some dingy club corner. Why...

Day Watch

Inspired by the novel by Russian author Sergei Lukyanenko, Day Watch is a fantasy horror epic in which the supernatural beings Dark and Light...

Flip Side: Converse Shoes

Sally Kidson Since their creation in 1923, 750 million pairs of Converse All Stars have been sold at a rate of 30,000 pairs per day....

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