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Image description: French President Macron The recent killing of Iran’s Quds Force commander Qassem Soleimani by US airstrikes sent shockwaves throughout the world. By the time European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen issued her delayed appeal for calm, most European leaders had already reacted to the crisis. The UK’s condemnation of the “aggressive threat” […]
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I’m a left-wing Labour member and I support Brexit. I write in the style of a confession piece because, throughout the UK and especially at Oxford, to make such a claim is to invite horror and disbelief. As recently as October, people marched in their thousands to campaign for a new referendum that would boil […]
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Image Credit: Andrew Shiva (CC BY-SA 4.0) In a referendum held on Wednesday 14th November, the Worcester College JCR voted to remain in the EU upon the UK’s departure. 54 of the 78 votes cast favoured this option, with 22 against, and 2 abstentions. The JCR committee are now mandated to “write to the presidents of the […]
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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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Will Hutton, journalist and the current Principal of Hertford College, has had a long and dynamic career. Beginning in investment banking, Hutton’s life took a dramatic turn when he moved into journalism. From here he made his name as a prominent economist working for the BBC’s Newsnight, as editor-in-chief of The Observer, and as director […]
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The Erasmus Programme turns 30 this year, but its future in the UK is in doubt. With no concrete assurances from the government that it will continue to participate in the programme after Brexit, students and academics alike are concerned that the scheme will soon be a thing of the past. Hal Churchman, just back from an Erasmus year […]
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The University of Oxford has denied that it intends to set up a satellite campus in France. The denial came after the Telegraph reported that Oxford, along with at least one other Russell Group university, had been in talks with French officials about possible ways of retaining their European links post-Brexit. Jean-Michel Blanquer, a former […]
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Former Prime Minister Sir John Major attacked the arguments of some of the leading Brexiteers as resorting to “divisive” stances of immigration as their other arguments are disproven. He also warned the leading proponents of Brexit within the Conservative Party, including Boris Johnson and Michael Gove, against “morphing into UKIP” in a speech at the […]
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On Monday evening, the City Council voted on a motion supporting Britain’s membership of the EU, although the result has yet to be made public. Proposed by the Green Party group leader Councillor Craig Simmons and seconded by Councillor Elise Benjamin, also from the Greens, the motion was entitled “Oxford City Council supports EU membership”. […]
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It’s been just over a month since Prime Minister David Cameron announced the date of the European Union referendum and already, nearly three whole months in advance, it is dominating political discourse. Everything else is peripheral as the right-wing press runs wild with Europhobia. Despite this there remain spare glimpses of sober political discourse on the […]
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The Oresund bridge, which connects Sweden to Denmark, stretching from Malmo and Lund to Copenhagen, and which sees 20,000 crossing daily, has, for 15 years, been a monument to international cooperation, a sign of openness, a symbol of interchange between nations and cultures. Now it has become something more akin to the Berlin Wall. On […]
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And they’re off! Cue years of leaflets in the letterbox, knocks on the door, and people approaching you on the streets. What do they want to talk about? They’ll be asking you how you’ll be voting in the upcoming referendum on the EU. After you give them the wrong answer, you’ll have to stand there […]
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