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Auction houses still sell human remains – and it’s time they stopped

In early October, The Swan auction house in Tetsworth, Oxfordshire, listed several lots of human remains for sale, including skulls from west Africa and shrunken heads from South America.

The Conversation

Best photos from Georgia’s rainy loss at Ole Miss

A squirrel briefly stole the show in Georgia's 28-10 loss to Ole Miss

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Gen Z are not to blame for the ‘cancel culture’ within their own friendship groups

Oxford student Alex Rogers took his life after feeling ostracised by his friendship group following a sexual misconduct allegation. His friends weren’t wrong to take action, but it should never have come to that, says Maddy Mussen

Evening Standard

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Ole Miss fans quickly tore down goalposts and carried them away after Georgia upset

Ole Miss is back in the College Football Playoff picture and its fans celebrated appropriately.

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Sarah Everard inquiry chief in race to become first female Oxford chancellor

The five candidates in the final round of the election for the historic position have been announced.

Evening Standard

Belkis Ayón: Sikán Illuminations; Bettina von Zwehl: The Flood review – singularly strange

The huge, bold, myth-inspired prints of the late Cuban artist Belkis Ayón dramatically launch a revamped Modern Art Oxford

The Guardian - UK

The week in classical: Welsh National Opera’s Il trittico; Oxford international song festival – review

Even as they fight for survival, WNO give their all in Puccini at his most affecting – and funniest

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Bojan Bujić obituary

Other lives: Lecturer at Reading and Oxford universities with a specialist knowledge of the the musical landscape of Europe

The Guardian - UK

Jeremy Clarkson says doctor told him to stop working after heart procedure

The former Top Gear presenter, who has a brewery, farm shop and pub in Oxfordshire, also says he has been told to shift towards eating vegetables

Evening Standard

‘Community action’: Oxfordshire’s Low Carbon Hub on its local renewable energy projects

Community energy group hopes for local electricity trading as part of its ‘better system’ of supply and ownership

The Guardian - UK

Paul Johnson to leave influential IFS economics thinktank

Leading authority on tax and spending policy to depart Institute for Fiscal Studies next year for Queen’s College, Oxford

The Guardian - UK

Inspector Lynley in surprise reboot with Leo Suter as the posh Oxford cop

Lynley is heading to the BBC and BritBox...

WhatToWatch

The Store, Oxford hotel review: classy, breezy, historic hospitality

What was once Britain’s second oldest department store is now Oxford’s chicest new hotel. Jonathan Samuels went for a browse

Evening Standard

Oxfordshire auction house halts sale of horned human skull after outcry from tribal community

Nagaland’s chief minister calls the auction an act of ‘continued colonial violence upon’ Indigenous people

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UK auction house cancels ‘disrespectful’ sale of shrunken heads and skulls

Museums and Indian politician criticised Swan auction house in Oxfordshire over sale of human remains

The Independent UK

Oxford retains place at top of global university rankings as UK list revealed

The University of Oxford has retained top place in an international league table for a record-breaking ninth year in a row.

The Guardian - UK

Baritone Roderick Williams: ‘I once heard a singer at a party say: “No peanuts. I’m singing in three days!”’

The baritone on how he looks after his voice, why he likes to talk to his audience, and playlists for the dying

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Mark Stoops, Kentucky Erupt in Epic Locker Room Celebration After Win Over Ole Miss

Saturday marked Kentucky's first win over Ole Miss in Oxford since 1978.

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Kentucky stuns Ole Miss as Rebels miss last-minute field goal

Kentucky went into Oxford and stunned Ole Miss

The Independent UK

Man arrested just 22 minutes after new zombie knife law came into effect

Kofie John-Welch, 29, was arrested at his home in Oxford on suspicion of possessing an offensive weapon

The Guardian - UK

Peter Jay obituary

Economic journalist and broadcaster labelled ‘the cleverest young man in England’

The Independent UK

Families of Oxford shooting victims lose appeal over school's liability for tragedy

The Michigan Court of Appeals has ruled in favor of the Oxford school district in a lawsuit that seeks to hold employees partly responsible for a shooting that killed four students and wounded others

The Independent UK

New intercity GWR train to link Bristol, Bath and Oxford – but only on Saturdays

Only two trains each way will initially connect Oxford, Swindon, Bath and Bristol

Louder

“I’m not very good at ignoring people who slag us off”: the story of Radiohead’s My Iron Lung, the song that changed everything for Thom Yorke & co.

The Oxford band were determined to show there was more to them than Creep, and they wrote just the song to do so

The Guardian - US

Mosquito-borne virus prompts public health restrictions in Massachusetts – and backlash

Climate crisis could accelerate spread of mosquito-borne diseases like eastern equine encephalitis, experts warn

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