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Image Credit: Don Irvine Following the announcement that former chief Strategist to President Donald Trump, Steve Bannon, is to speak at the Oxford Union on Friday 16th November, the Secretary of the Union, Nick Brown, has called for an emergency meeting of the standing committee. The formal letter of requisition, as seen by The Oxford […]
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Image Credit: Gage Skidmore Former Chief Strategist to President Donald Trump, Steve Bannon, is to speak at the Oxford Union on Friday 16th November. Bannon served in the U.S. Navy, before becoming an investment banker and an executive producer in Hollywood. In 2007 he co-founded Breitbar News which has been associated with elements of the […]
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On a bright Autumn morning on 11th November, crowds mustered along St. Giles to participate in the Remembrance Day service marking the initiation of the armistice and the end of fighting in the First World War. The service was led by faith leaders, including the Rev Charlotte Bannister-Parker, Bishop of Oxford Rt Revd Steven Croft, […]
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Image Credit: Andrew Shiva (CC BY-SA 4.0) On Sunday 11th November, Worcester College JCR passed a motion to hold a ‘people’s vote’ regarding the JCR’s future membership in the European Union. The referendum, to be held on Wednesday 14th, will let the members of the JCR decide whether it wishes to remain in the EU. […]
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Image Credit: Geni Twenty-five refugees living in Oxford have been taken on as tour guides by Pitt Rivers Museum and the Museum of the History of Science in a new project to forge cultural links between the Museum and the local community. The majority of the new tour guides came from Syria, however among the […]
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Image Credit: David Hawgood Oxford City council has admitted that it needs to attract more people from ethnic minority groups to work within the council. Only 9 per cent of the council’s workforce is from a Black, Asian or ethnic minority background, whereas 19% of the city’s inhabitants are. Nigel Chapman, the council’s board member […]
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Image credit: Facebook. Description: Wayne Rooney playing for England. “A fudge,” “completely wrong,” “cheapens the shirt,” “a complete mockery of football”; these have been some of the reactions of former England players and journalists to the news that Wayne Rooney will be coming back from retirement for a friendly against the USA on 15th November. […]
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Image Credit: Fittoprint (Public Domain) St Hugh’s College ran a bop on the 3rd of November with the theme of ‘laundromats and scary rats’, following a series of maintenance issues at the College. The strapline of the bop was ‘dress up as your favourite Hugh’s administrative disaster’. St Hugh’s has previously suffered criticism about the […]
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Image: Tony Hisgett (CC BY SA 2.0) The Oxford City Council has announced that a new Oxford Living Wage will be set at £10.02 an hour, and will come into force from April 2019 onwards. To mark this announcement, the Oxford City Living Wage Campaign held an ‘Oxford Living Wage Rally’ on 5th November, which […]
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Image Credit: Toby Ord Martyn Percy, the 45th Dean of Christ Church, is set to be investigated for “conduct of an immoral, scandalous or disgraceful nature incompatible with the duties of the office or employment”. It is understood the Dean has been on sick leave and will return to work this week to face a […]
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Image Credit: jarmoluk Difficulties have plagued the opening of the Oxford University Chemistry Department’s new teaching labs which were supposed to be fully functional by the time students arrived at the beginning of Michaelmas. These problems include the late delivery of the building in addition to a “small fire and break-in”, The Oxford Student can […]
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Image Credit: Tom Gould Students have been responding to the reaction from the sociology department at the University following a series of transphobic tweets were revealed by The Oxford Student. The head of the sociology department sent an email to students saying that, whilst they could not comment on the specific allegation, they “would like […]
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Image Credit: Paul Lowry Following the successful launch of Physic Gin, a brand created by the University of Oxford, Cambridge University has this month released its own gin. Oxford University began marketing their Physic Gin back in February 2018. It features flavourings of wormwood, Szechuan pepper, opium poppy seed, calamus root and gentian root, all […]
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Image Credit: Tejvan Pettinger Almost 70 women stand to be evicted this Christmas from shared accommodation as a result of Oxford University’s purchase of the building to serve as future graduate accommodation. The property, which is currently Oxford’s only all-female shared housing accommodation, is being sold by Catalyst Housing Group, a charity based in London […]
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Wadham students occupied front quad in protest of the Governing Body’s attempt to set rent in the the new Dorothy Wadham building at £700 per month on a compulsory 9-month contract, totalling £6300 per year per student. The building was meant to provide affordable, college-owned accommodation for the college’s 2nd year undergraduates, who currently have […]
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The Oxford University LGBTQ Society, the Oxford SU LGBTQ Campaign and the Oxford SU Women’s Society have publicly condemned the Oxford University History Society’s decision to host Dame Jenni Murray on the topic of “Powerful British Women in History and Society” on Saturday 17th of November. Murray has since pulled out of the talk for […]
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Manny Pacquiao, professional boxer and politician, and currently serving as a Senator of the Philippines, spoke at the Oxford Union on the 5th November. In a statement, seen by The Oxford Student, the society has sad the following statement: “We recognise that the decision to invite Mc Pacquiao to the Oxford Union may have been […]
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Far right leader of the AfD in Germany has cancelled her speech at the Oxford Union, following pressure from anti-racist campaigners. This comes after Oxford’s Student Union and the Oxford University Labour Club both passed motions condemning the invitation for her to speak. Protests had been planned from various groups for the duration of her […]
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Image Credit: Basher Eyre (CC BY-SA 2.0) Oxford’s independent music venue The Cellar has launched an £80,000 crowdfunding campaign to avoid closure in early December. In June, Oxford County Council inspectors, had said that the venue’s 70cm fire escape was 30cm too narrow, and therefore the club was ordered to cut the number of people […]
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