George Abaraonye’s desperate bid to cling on to the presidency of Oxford’s 200-year-old debating society has now collapsed, with a disciplinary committee confirming his resignation and declining to overturn the no-confidence poll triggered by social media posts in which he…
The Oxford Union has been plunged into turmoil after its president-elect, George Abaraonye, was removed in a vote of no confidence over comments he made on social media appearing to celebrate the shooting of Charlie Kirk, a prominent right-wing commentator…
Oxford University’s new chancellor, Lord Hague of Richmond, has warned prospective students that they should expect to be confronted by uncomfortable ideas, declaring there will be “no safe spaces” during his tenure. Speaking at the Cheltenham Literature Festival, the former…
According to minutes from an internal meeting of the Oxford Union, the members of its governing body were advised late last year that they could face criminal liability as part of a counter-terrorism investigation into a debate on Israel. A…
Last week saw yet another controversy about transphobia and academia, this time at the University of Oxford. Some of the protesting students claimed that talks by Helen Joyce and Michael Biggs violated the University’s own equality policies. Surprisingly, they might…
On Friday, a group of pro-Palestinian protestors occupied the Radcliffe Camera, the most famous part of the University of Oxford’s central library system. In an uncharacteristically decisive move, the Oxford leadership briefly attempted to negotiate, but soon handed the issue…
The Oxford Head of Equality and Diversity appears to be opposed to academic freedom. In the past few days students at the University of Oxford have set up encampments protesting Israel’s continuing invasion of the Gaza strip. An open letter…