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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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Potter weaves more of his magic

“Dark and difficult times lie ahead”, the posters ominously warn. Harry Ppotter is back, riddled with teenage angst and tormented by vexing dreams in...

Left on the ropes

he is now busy rebuilding his life and raking in the profits of a new autobiography, but Frank Bruno’s retirement from professional boxing came...

Exeter mass wedding bliss

ExeterCollege became the love capi­tal of Oxford on Saturdaymorning when a number of the college’s Freshers got married to one another.Theceremony was conducted by...

Running the class-ical

In a city like Oxford, with an enormous number of classical concerts going on here, there and everywhere, it’s often difficult to pick out...

Identity crisis

The desire to identify oneself with something at university is a fairly self-evident step that people take. however, for this identity to be dictated...

Trio guilty of ‘honour killing’

Three Oxford residents have been found guilty ofstabbing to death Brookes student Arash Ghorani-Zarin. ChomirAli, a Bangladeshi waiter, and his two sons Mujibar Rahman...

Obituary: the celebrity wedding

IT IS with an impeccable single tear that we announce the untimely death of the Celebrity Wedding, though it far outlived the marriages of...

Eminent Corpus classicist and ex-Vice President dies at 92

Francis Alfred Lepper,emeritus Fellow in Ancient History at CorpusChristi, has died aged 92. Lepperis remembered for his contribution to the study of the Ro­man...

Oxford’s secret garden

Rebecca BuckTurrill GardenSummertownIt is a long bicycle ride from the town centre up to the Turrill Garden, behind the SummertownLibrary, but once you arrive,...

New College Warden dismisses ‘nonsense’ university league tables

Professor Alan Ryan,Warden of New College, criticised league tables in a recent opinion piece forthe Times Higher education Supplement, say­ing that the “problem with...

Film

In Her Shoes,dir. Curtis Hanson,out now: When Stupid Girl by Garbage announces the start of the film, alarm bells ring over the pretext of...

Hall become rugby champions

St Peter’s 8St Edmund Hall 15St Edmund Hall claimed an attritional, nerve-wrecked title decider against St Peter’s to regain the college rugby title from...

Soc. Shots

This week, the infamous fifth week blues have brought out the moaning teenage solipsists in the best of us, and let’s face it, sixth...

A constant delight

There are some subjects, writer John le Carré once said, “that can only be tackled in fiction”. It is curious, then, that Fernando Meirelles’...

Freshers fall to Tabs

Oxford Men 85Cambridge Men 96Oxford Women 92 Cambridge Women 98The Freshers’ individual performances suggested promise for the upcoming year. Oxford dominated the distance events...

What goes on tour…

The English music scene is a bizarre beast. To be sure, the market suffers from its pap bands that have endless sunshine blown up...

Raw Tongan power carries the day

Oxford 14Tonga 34Oxford came off worse in a match of brutal intensity against the touring Tonga national side. Though they remained competitive throughout the...

Morrisette for glory

The CollectionAlanis MorissetteOut 14 November« « « « «Since the glory days of her hugely successful debut, Jagged Little Pill, Alanis Morissette has been...

Wenger’s dilemma

I knew being at Oxford was like living in a bubble when, in five weeks, the only live football match I’d seen was Balliol...

Performing in the shadows of Pyramids

On a July evening in Cairo, Hussein Omar and I walked into “The place” or “Makan” as it is known to Egyptians. Outside, through...
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