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It was the honorary degree ceremony for [tag]Oxford[/tag] University this morning at the Sheldonian Theatre – called for one reason or another, The [tag]Encaenia[/tag] Ceremony.

I have to confess I haven’t heard of any of those getting their honorary degrees, which is a blessing I suppose as it means they comes from academia and aren’t the [...]

Yesterday lunchtime, quite by accident, I saw that at 5pm that afternoon at the [tag]Oxford[/tag] Playhouse was the annual Charles [tag]Simonyi[/tag] Lecture, to be given by Nobel-prize winning scientist Sir Harry [tag]Kroto[/tag], on the subject of: “Can the Internet save the [tag]Enlightenment[/tag]?”
So I changed my route home to go via the Playhouse and buy a [...]

It’s an extraordinary thing, this [tag]Pro-Test[/tag] movement that started only a few months and yet has had an enormous nationwide impact on a very difficult subject – the use of animal testing.
On Saturday, the group – fronted as usual by 16-year-old [tag]Laurie Pycroft[/tag] – had their second march through [tag]Oxford[/tag] and even though there were [...]

[tag]Oxford Castle[/tag] opened its doors for the first time in 1,000 years today, so I thought I’d go along and check it out.
The castle doesn’t have the same kind of historical importance as other castles, but it is intriguing for several reasons. One, it is smack-bang in the middle of town. Two, until 1996, it [...]

[tag]Oxford University[/tag] was granted most of the extension to its [tag]injunction[/tag] against [tag]animal rights[/tag] protestors on Friday.
The actual order [pdf] – held under seal until yesterday, but which I noticed had been pinned to the tree where the lawful protest is allowed to gather on Saturday – restricts the protestors from effectively even entering the [...]

Liz Two aka Her Majesty the Queen visited Oxford this morning, so I popped along to check it out and get a few snaps.
She had a bit of a tour of the town by all accounts, opening a memorial garden to her late sister at one end, visiting the Oxford University press at the other, [...]

Well, it was the biggest animal rights march for some time. Large parts of central Oxford were brought to a standstill for large parts of Saturday afternoon as protestors under the Speak banner took a different route down Oxford High Street to celebrate World Lab Animal Day.
In actual fact, World Animal Lab Day is today, [...]

Speak has responded to the partial extension to the injunction against them won by Oxford University on Monday.
Having read the whole thing, I got the feeling that Speak organisers are starting to be a little more adult and responsible about their protest. It certainly seems that the fact they got a fair deal and a [...]

Oxford University has won its High Court battle to keep an extended injunction against animal rights protestors at its Biomedical lab, according to Contract Journal.
Update: Oxford University has put up its own post about the injunction. In fact, the original extension to the injunction has not been approved. Instead a new injunction provides additional [...]

Well, it was quite an extraordinary day in Oxford yesterday. Around 1,000 people turned for the Pro-Test march – which was as much about shouting down the animal rights protestors as it was supporting the new housing centre being built in the heart of town – and about 300 or so of the usual animal [...]