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Image Description: A room of hacks I am now in my third year. The grey hairs are appearing one by one in my curly locks and the sum of my wisdom has grown so vast that I have backache from carrying it about in my enormous head. The Greeks believed that the greatest wisdom came […]
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Image Description: A building adjoining the Somerville quad Re-open nominations (RON) has been declared the winner in Somerville College’s JCR presidential election, defeating two candidates. RON won 82 votes (43%) at the first stage, with the candidates receiving 57 and 51 votes respectively. At the second stage, the second-placing candidate won 71 votes but lost […]
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Image Description: A black and white image of All Soul’s College. The SU has announced the timeline for the election to replace the SU President-Elect, who recently resigned after online controversy. The election will take place between the 18th May and 20th May. Nominations for the position of SU President-Elect will open on the 25th […]
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Image description: The Green Oxford SU logo overlayed on a silhouette of a hand casting a vote The results of this year’s Oxford SU Sabbatical election leave Rashmi Samant as the victor of the race for the SU presidency. Samant, a graduate student reading for an MSc in energy systems at Linacre College, previously told […]
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Adam Roble, a second-year History and Politics student from Teddy Hall has tonight been elected President of the Oxford Union for Trinity term 2021. Roble, who was Secretary of the Union this term, defeated Geneva Roy, the current Treasurer from Brasenose College in the race for the top spot. Roble obtained 646 first preference votes […]
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Image description: Trump is shown with a black mask on in the main picture; an additional picture shows Trump with Melania, without masks and smiling Even among a competitive field, the 2020 American Presidential Election has been especially turbulent. The summer saw the country rocked by protests demanding justice for the deaths of George Floyd […]
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Image Description: The Oxford Union main building The Returning Officer for the Oxford Union has announced there shall be no declaration of results and has referred the issue to an Election Tribunal. This news comes after Union members previously voted to re-open nominations in the election for President-Elect of the Union on the 12th June. […]
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Union members today voted to re-open nominations in the election for President Elect of the Union. The only candidate, Jack Solomon, faced severe criticism following substantial allegations by the Secretary, Cansu Uyguroglu, of racist comments he had made in the past. The remarks came to light on Wednesday and the allegations were then put directly […]
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Despite a Conservative majority across the country, Oxford East has remained strongly Labour. The constituency, which includes the majority of Oxford colleges, elected incumbent Labour and Co-op MP Anneliese Dodds who has represented the area since the 2017 General Election, replacing Andrew Smith as the Labour Candidate who had held the seat since 1987. Dodds, […]
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The United Kingdom is breaking. That, I trust, is not controversial. Visit one of our underfunded, understaffed hospitals, which are managing the worst A&E waiting times on record, and tell me that our NHS is working. Talk to one of the more-than-a-million households who don’t receive their full Universal Credit entitlement, or the 4.1 million […]
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The slate ‘Rise’ has won three of the four main officer positions in the Oxford Union, following yesterday’s termly election . Sara Singh Dube won the presidential position for the slate, with Beatrice Barr winning treasurer, and Lee Chin Wee winning Secretary. Spencer Cohen won the position of Librarian, for the slate ‘2020 Vision’. The […]
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The Oxford Union presidential election will take place tomorrow, with the President and all officerships being contested. Candidates for all positions remain disproportionately male and privately educated. Members will have a choice between Daniel Wilkinson, a 2nd year PPEist, the presidential candidate for the ‘Progress’ slate, and Julian Kirk, a PPE finalist, who is leading […]
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A year ago, the Prime Minister was invincible. She was faced on the left by an ageing, seemingly out of touch, old socialist who was under constant assault from his own party on every possible issue. On the right was a slightly mad bloke from Liverpool who lied about his doctorate, whether he’d been at […]
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The last time we spoke to Layla Moran, she was a parliamentary candidate, busily fighting for a marginal seat in the 2015 general election. Despite an inspiring campaign backed by strong community support, it is fair to say that the legacy of the coalition government proved to be an obstacle in her path to representing […]
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Right. The long haul of election season is upon us, and we have six weeks till the votes are cast. Whatever party you’re backing, or even if you’ve decided not to vote (a valid choice, but do! Do vote!), there is a lot you can do to take part. Whether you believe in the legitimacy […]
Continue ReadingAs election campaigning gets underway across the country, Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell has spoken to the Oxford Student about Labour’s plans for education. Campaigning in Oxford’s Blackbird Leys area alongside outgoing Oxford East MP Andrew Smith and a group of Labour activists on Saturday, Mr McDonnell made a speech covering a wide range of topics […]
Continue ReadingSouth East MEP Anneliese Dodds has been selected as Labour’s candidate for the Oxford East Constituency for the forthcoming general election. Last week, the sitting MP Andrew Smith announced that he would be standing down ahead of the snap election after 30 years of service. In a message to local Labour members, Smith, who had […]
Continue ReadingTheresa May’s surprise announcement of an election this morning has left many on the left in this country fearing for the future. Never before in British political history has the Labour Party gone into an election in such a lame position. The party is little more than a husk. It just about survives, dragged along […]
Continue ReadingTheresa May has called a snap general election. Speaking on the steps of 10 Downing Street, the Prime Minister announced that she intends for the election to be held on the 8th June. Citing her government’s small majority, and her fears the opposition is set to frustrate her Brexit plans, May announced that tomorrow she […]
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