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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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OxStu pulled after legal dispute with University

Last week’s edition of The OxfordStudent was pulled after the University threatened Oxford Student Services Ltd(OSSL), the paper’s owners, with an injunction against its...

Saraband

Sarabanddir, Ingmar Bergman,out now: Ingmar Bergman, after nearly twenty years of silence, has spoken again, with a new film,Saraband, showing at the National Film...

Obituary

TRY ASKING for an Archer’s Aqua at a college bar. At worst, you’ll be jeered right out of thequad; at best, pointed derisively to...

Cambridge advised to heed reform

The Chancellor of Oxford University hasspoken publicly for the first time in support of attempts to reform the University.In a speech to an audience...

An Oxfordian story

After the success of 2003’sscreening, OxShorts, acollection of four shortstudent films, is back.Bollocks, some mightthink: more pretentious ‘ooh lookI’m filming a pidgeon flying over...

Man behind the van

I work in Mehdi’s kebab van which is on the High Street between Oriel College and Turl Street. I’ve worked in the same van...

SJC bans bop after spate of vandalism

St John’s has suspended the next college bopfollowing several incidents of vandalism to College property. The 8th week bopwill go ahead as long as...

Soc. shots

Halloween FilmsSee listings for detailsHalloween is in the air. The oddly impressive halloween-bop costume aside, though, none of us seem to have the time...

The First Lady in waiting

Hillary Clinton enters the reception area outside her office in Washington where my photographer and I are waiting, suddenly rather nervous. dressed in her...

Public donate to Ashmolean purchase

The Ashmolean Museum this week confirmed they have completed the purchase of a painting by renowned Romantic artist Samuel Palmer for close to a...

The Legend of Zorro

The Legend of Zorrodir Martin Campbellout nowIn 1998, The Mask of Zorro, alsodirected by Martin Cambell,was released to general acclaim.A rousing, swashbuckling adventurewith a...

A bleak future for student protest

At the end of last month six students at the University of Lancaster were found guilty, in a magistrates’ court, of taking part in...

Councillor proposes Cowley sex trade legalisation

An Oxford Citycouncillor has called for prostitution to be legalised in the Cowley Road area. Sajad Malik told the Oxford Mail,“Prostitutes use anywhere dark and...

Playing the hard way

Who would live in the olden days? The poor sods had it hard. The minor matter of world wars and inadequate healthcare aside, everything...

It’s different for girls

Pornography is a diverse beast. The umbrella term is used to include anything from X-rated videos to vacantly grinning blondes in The Sun. Whether...

Suffering OUSU

The agenda for last Friday’s OUSU council meeting, where a vote toboycott Coca-Cola was passed by an overwhelming majority, contains twopoints of significant interest....

Tired of helping the Third World

I recently sponsored a friend of mine to go on a Rhino Run. This rather bizarre excursion involves jogging for many miles in a...

Justified

Few things in life can be said with certainty. The fact that the majority of people who come out of Oxford will go on...

Bachelors in the art of seduction

We live, it is said, in a city of beautiful buildings and ugly people. We are continually portrayed as lacking passion and social skills,...

The world is no longer a stage

Optimists for the future of British theatre have recently had little tosmile at owing to the plethora of articles by smug Fleet Streetjournalists who...

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