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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.

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.

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.

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. 

Cowley Road double abduction leads to sexual assault

On Saturday, 29thOctober, two twenty year-old women got into a car with a man, were taken fromoutside Kebab Kid on Cowley Roadto a car...

Society’s gossip columnist

Tatler sits somewhere between House and Gardens and Vogue. Geographically at least:its offices occupy the third floor of Condénast’s headquarters in London, sandwichedbetween the...

Peter’s cruise past careless Catz

St Peter’s 30St Catherine’s 13"Back with the old" was the St Peter’s cry as they crushed St Catherine’s, the new kids on the block...

Petition targets OUSU student vote

A petition put to OUSUto hold a referendum to limit its input in non-directly student relatedmatters, has failed. a motion was also been put...

Create your own soundscape

Humans share ninety eight per cent of their genes with chimpanzees,but according to researchers at Keele University, the latter show no preferencefor music over...

Hertford blast past Keble

Keble 0Hertford 1: On the afternoon of Halloween, Keble and Hertford dished up a spectacle of football that was more treat than trick. In...

SJC rusticates student accused of vandalism

A finalist at St John’s has been tem­porarilyrusticated for vandalising the college squash courts. PeterRogers, a Human Scien­tist, will be excluded from college for...

The Sun – should we love it?

Against: Paul Sagar, a first year PPEist at BalliolThe Sun is offensive. It offends women, immigrants, asylum seekers and also those whoare simply offended...

Favourites through

Jesus 2-Brasenose 5; Balliol 2-Worcester 3: ‘To err is human; to forgive, divine,’ said Alexander Pope, but Jesus fans will be likely to disagree...

Academics circulate ‘flysheet’ criticising University reforms

A group of Oxford Universityacadem­ics have recently composed a flysheet criticising the reforms proposedby the Green Paper, and circulated it among academics across the...

A hint of the devine

Supernatural ImagesThe Ashmolean MuseumEnds 15th JanuaryYou almost expect church bells and choir music when you wander into the Supernatural Miracles Eexhibition. The exhibition does...

Time to move on

When they were handing out sports journalists, the British rugby community must have been in the toilet. The Blacks arrive today for their first...

Bops burnt out at LMH

A student dressed as an Egyptian mummy was set alight at an LMH Halloween bopon Saturday night. Teddy Hall postgraduate student Hamish Stewart was...

Soc Shots

It is hard to ignore, now, that the sunshine of last summer is all but gone, replaced by those gloomy dark clouds that can...

England’s asset is continuity against an unsettled Pakistan

Michael Vaughan’s men have arrived in Pakistan for the first leg of their subcontinental tour, relying on their established backbone in the pursuit of...

OUCA and OULC in bitter battle over Labour Club Presidents’ Galloway letter

The Oxford University Conservative Association has made a formal complaint to the proctorsabout an open letter from the Oxford University Labour Club to Respect...

Festival time has come

From bizarre experimental noodlings to next summer’s blockbusters, the beauty of the film festival is that it overthrows the idea that the two can...

Netball Blues run Birmingham to a standstill

Oxford’s netballers secured their second consecutive win of the season with another impressive performance.an outstanding defensive effort saw Birmingham’s attackers flounder in a quagmire...

Green Councillors concerned at Cowley student numbers

An Oxford councillor has claimed that studentsin rented accommodation are pricing out local families from the Cowley Roadarea. Sid Phelps, Green Partycouncillor for St...

Screen

Thames bfi London Film Festivaldirs various19 October - 3 NovemberFairly bad behaviour abounded at this year’s London Film Festival, one of the finest in...

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