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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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Band About Town: The Pagans

More often spotted balancing his cello on the back of a bike, softly-spoken music student Duncan Strachan is lesser known as the front-man of...

Lord Goldsmith

His legal advice greenlighted Britain’s most controversial foreign adventure since Suez. Kate Greasley talks to the attorney general on justifying Iraq He is the man...

Annuals – Be He Me

Ah me, but it’s refreshing to listen to a band with such a varied and distinctive sound. What make this six-piece from Raleigh, North...

Freemasons recruit Oxford students

THE OXFORD University Freemasons’ Lodge is at the centre of a national campaign to recruit undergraduates into the organisation. The 'University Scheme', started by...

Drinks tonight, war tomorrow

Partying, politics and pessimism Laura Pitel goes in search of the young people of LebanonIn most places in the world it might seem distasteful...

Bonde Do Role – With Lasers

“You can’t judge a book by its cover.” But when the book is the new album from Brazilian baile-funk hipsters Bonde Do Role, and...

Tales from the Lodge: St Hugh’s

We Hughsies are a boring lot, or at least so it would seem. When I went down to our lodge last week to get...

Live in the Cathedral

To retain any credibility at all when talking about classical music, here’s a tip: call Rachmaninoff’s second piano concerto “Rach Two”. It’s a bit...

The Irreverence Crusade

I feel like I’ve been on one of those jerking, rattly, helter-skelterish roller-coasters. I’m finding it difficult to coherently fit all the glimpses and...

Where did it all go wrong for…the weather?

Remember the last two weeks of April? Remember the cricket, the punting, and the blissful sunshine spilling out all over the quads? Remember the...

24 Hour Plays

It was always going to be interesting: six of Oxford’s finest young playwrights paired with six directors, randomly assigned to a group of actors...

A Midsummer Night’s Dream

Summer’s onset leads, like the turning of the seasons, to a crop of plays performed in the balmy environs of college quadrangles, and it’s...

Five Minutes With… Tom Campion

As a ‘New Writer’ in Oxford, what do you feel are the obligations of the modern playwright?Obligations…I think the obvious ones are firstly to...

“Anyone for Croquet?”

Find a place to playThis really shouldn’t be difficult: after all, you are in Oxford, and there’s a good chance your college has...

Murder on the Nile

Agatha Christie caused a stir when she adapted her Death on the Nile for the stage, altering it nominally to Murder on the Nile,...

Taking Bodies

It took an informal chat between two PCs to bring into the open what everyone must already know: the University owns Oxford. From shop-owners...

The Canterbury Tales

The Canterbury Tales is quite a project to undertake, and this production is somewhat ambitious. One thing that struck me was the conspicuous absence...

Up The Republic!

Fans of new writing have a veritable dramatic feast at the Burton Taylor studio in seventh week, and they should not be disappointed with...

Why must America break the rules to enforce them?

America has changed from the champion of international order to its antagonist. Bush has rejected the idea that a set of strong international institutions,...

Drink the bar dry: Worcester, St Hugh’s, Sommerville

Beginning our evening in Worcester, we thought we’d reached bar Mecca. We were greeted by a beautiful patio area; absolutely perfect for a quiet...

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