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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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Do you know your Bremens from your Dellstedts?

One for the anoraks this. The Sueddeutsche are running a taxing (geddit?) German number plates quiz and even have a contraption to produce a...

Album Review: Napoleon IIIrd, In Debt To

by James Pickering** Probably the first thing to strike you about Napoleon IIIrd is the sheer uniqueness of his musical style. The Wakefield-based musician...

Peterhouse ball cancelled after poor academic results

Students at Peterhouse College, Cambridge, have been made to cancel their famous May Ball this year due to concerns over academic performance. The...

Paranormal Activities in Oxford

A ten-day-long ghost festival has just begun in Oxford, in an attempt to find out if it is one of the most haunted cities...

Exclusive Interview: Albanian Author Fatos Kongoli at the Maison Francaise 31/10/07

by Emily Packer With thanks to Miranda Dawkins for interpreting the interview. Though his name may not yet be familiar to...

The Week in Singles

The Dirty - Why, I Think It’s Love (Daniel Rawnsley) **** It’s like Karen O grew a penis and the Yeah Yeah Yeahs fused...

The Greatest Show on Middle-Earth

The production team of the Lord of the Rings stage show come to the Union next week. Rob Morgan talks to the director, designer...

Big Breath In

By Elena Lynch Big Breath In is a vivid portrayal of a child’s magical adventure through physical theatre. Having never been to see a piece...

Rabbit

By Sam Pritchard Bella is celebrating her 29th birthday with a badly-judged collection of friends. As they get embroiled in arguments about sex and careers,...

Look Back in Anger

By Max Seddon Once upon a time, this was a very important play. Not anymore. Gone are the days when the mere presence of an...

Stage Whispers: The Set designer

The role of a set designer is simple – create an environment where the searing soul of the play can be acted out, where...

Angels in America

By Ben Lafferty Perhaps no play has ever dramatised the panic, the uncomprehending abhorrence, of the AIDS epidemic better than Angels in America. It does...

The Enemies of Reason?

Heard the one about the healers who can perform internal surgery on you with their bare hands – leaving not a mark behind? Or...

Drama Review: Angels in America

By Srijanee Bhattacharyya Is Angels in America, a Pulitzer prize-winning drama by Tony Kushner set during the Reagan era staged at the ‘site-specific’...

Blues fail to match Welsh class

Oxford 12 - 52 Ospreys A PACKED house braved the bitterly cold elements on a crisp and clear Monday night to see the Oxford Blues...

Hall need Ielpo to save them from defeat

CHERWELL school pitches are often the venue for hard fought conker fights, although they have rarely witnessed a battle of this intensity.Before the game,...

New scrape draw against Brasenose

TOUTED as potential winners of the Premier Division at the start of term, New College have since struggled to pull off an uninspiring draw...

Diary of a captain – Blues lacrosse

NINE hundred years of heritage. A century of lacrosse. A dark blue side which has lost half its winning varsity squad. This was the...

Triple promotion is perfect for ChCh

IN a thrilling game against their main division two rivals, played with plenty of aggression and no small measure of skill, the Christ Church...

Teddies a picnic for Magdalen

ON a sunny October afternoon in the University Parks, newly promoted Magdalen showed the first division that they are here to stay with a...

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