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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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Thoughts of the week

Undersexed, underpriced and over here. The Silver Ring Thing is the latest import from the States, and I bet it isn’t even really made...

DRINK: Raoul’s Bar

Raoul’s Bar 32 Walton St 01865 553 73 Raoul’s on Walton Street has an astounding selection of cocktails. I have never been so...

EAT: Luna Caprese

Luna Caprese 4 North Parade (01865) 554 812 I have always thought it one of the most elusive and charming of mysteries that,...

All the trimmings

You’re probably wondering why, in the month of May, I’m talking to you about the sort of accessories you’d normally associate with winter. Before...

Who’s that girl?

Amélie Nothomb dresses entirely in black and gets up everyday at four in the morning to drink vinegar and write novels. So goes the...

Pride, prejudiced

Ten years after the legalisation of homosexuality, Lithuania still rates among the least tolerant of it in Europe. According to a survey by the...

Bored this summer? Try… Bicester Village

Like reading Vogue? Shop for clothes at GAP and Next although you’d prefer to wear Karen Millen outfits? Sounds like massive desire suppression to...

Euro Vision

We are forever told, through government initiatives, race equality organisations and indeed much mainstream liberal media, that an acceptance of ethnic and cultural diversity...

Ex-Pat-Riotism

Racism is a word that gets bandied about a lot nowadays. And with good reason. It seems as though, despite years of PR about...

Being Jordan – Katie Price

Nowadays, the innocent appreciation of the breast is a limited practice at best, excluded from popular culture and forcefully confined to pervy Scouse readers...

Chatting Up…Tony Hadley

When you are on tour do you have any bizarre backstage/ dressing room requests or superstitions that you’d like to tell us about? I...

Mamet’s mammoth masterpiece

American Buffalo @ OFS Arrogance is prolific in the thespian world of Oxford, in both character and production. Though in productions of real quality...

The Wind in the Willows

Pimms, punting and plays – what more could you ask for from summertime in Oxford? This year’s Trinity Lawns Play combines children’s classic and...

Stitching

Stitching challenges the selfishness which lies at the core of its young couple. At the same time, it creates empathy which makes its occasional...

This is our Youth

Transported from New York to London, this play depicts the troubled lives of three youths of the 1980s: Warren (Ferdie Addis) and Dennis (Angus...

Ambition, lies, and (good) fake photos

Don’t believe everything you read in the papers, the old adage goes. Or, if it appeared in the hugely influential American politics mag The...

Bad Education

Bad Education @ Phoenix Pedro Almodóvar’s latest film on sex, religion, and abuse is unlike anything you will see in the coming months. In...

The Saddest Music in the World

First things first: don’t let the title deceive you. This may be a movie about melancholia, but it’s also an absolute riot; hugely inventive...

In Need of Divine Aid

Faithless No Roots Out 7 June Before we start, there’s something I have to share: Maxi Jazz does something to me. And no, this...

Live: Kathryn Williams @ The Zodiac

Reviewers have described Kathryn Williams voice as ‘delicate’ and ‘ethereal’; physically she is much more corporeal. This was just one of the anomalies that...

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