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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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Girl impaled on spike after fancy dress drinking

A second year Worcester student was hospitalised on Saturday after injuring herself on a spike while scaling railings by Magdalen.he accident took place last...

Patriotism: Is a country worth loving?

I found myself at the centre of a minor media maelstrom the week before last when a colleague and I published the findings of...

‘Tis Pity She’s A Whore

‘Tis Pity She’s a Whore is brimming with sexual violence: the dominance of men over women. The play charts the story of Giovanni’s incestuous...

Coming soon: the Hildaboy

William Hedley, 18, is one of the first ever boys to hold an offer for St Hilda’s. The Shrewsbury School pupil spent last Saturday...

Editorial: Get your act together, OUSU

In May last year, Cherwell broke the news that our student union had copied a crucial document from the student union of another university....

Residents angered by plans for Iffley tennis centre

Proposals for a new indoor tennis court on Iffley Road have come up against fierce opposition from locals, including Professor of Theology, Andrew Linzey.Professor...

Middle East Journalists to Apply for Oxford Scholarships

Oxford is to award scholarships to Middle Eastern journalists.The Mona Megalli Fellowship, part of the Reuters Foundation Fellowship Program, is open to mid-career journalists...

Debate Sparked on "Success" of Pro-Test March

About 200 members of the group Pro-Test marched in Oxford on Saturday to declare their support for animal testing for scientific purposes and to...

Oxford Philomusica play Schubert at the Sheldonian Theatre

26th February 2008 It is always exciting to hear young performers who hope to become professional musicians, and it is for this reason that I...

Be My Baby

Review by Frankie Parham Evidently February is the month when everyone is up the duff. While a teen-flick about pregnancy, Juno, is raking in the...

College football report: St John’s 1-3 Pembroke

The increasingly open race for promotion to the First Division saw another twist on Friday as an impressive Pembroke College won at St John's. ...

Timon of Athens

In any discussion of Shakespeare, we have all come to inevitably expect the immediate worship of everything he produced. We are inclined to replace...

I Love Peach Blossom

Review by Rees Arnott-Davies.One anticipates when seeing a play in a foreign language (especially one so distant as Mandarin) that something is always going...

Desert of the Real

Review by Frankie ParhamConflict can always make good drama. From Homer’s Iliad to Kubrick’s Full Metal Jacket, warfare offers the perfect environment for man...

Video: The Wychwood Warriors

Max Thompson and Rachel Fraser find out what it is to be a Viking in the 21st century.

Week 5 Mid-Week News

Sangwon Yoon and Jenny Moore keep us update on news this week in the mid-week news round up .

Tosh. Or a joke, perhaps

The excellent German blog Die Achse des Guten ("The Axis of Good") has drawn my attention to this bizarre claim in today's Daily Record:Legendary...

Facebookieren

It didn't take long to notice that the Germans have no equivalent of the verb "to facebook".So I thought I'd coin one. "Facebookieren."It uses...

Anarchists

Last Saturday, I went to my first ever anarchist non-party. That is not to say that it was an non-anarchist party as I went...

Blues Athlete of the Week -Beth Wild

College: St Hilda's Clubs: Oxford University Hockey Club, Oxford University Women’s Cricket Club Year/Course: 3rd Year Geography Positions: Centre Forward, RHB, OB How are you preparing for Hockey...

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