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Sep 21, 2026

Holly FreyHOST
8:44
Uh, he completed his undergraduate degree in 1909, and then he went to Wadham College, Oxford for his master's degree.
Holly FreyHOST
8:52
And Moses made a really strong, positive impression on his fellow students in England, and he was elected president of the Oxford Union.
Holly FreyHOST
9:00
That's the debating society.
Holly FreyHOST
9:02
He is the only student from the US to have ever held that position as far as I could tell.
Dan WoottonHOST
26:17
So there's a couple of things.
Dan WoottonHOST
26:19
Firstly, do you remember there was that debate at the Oxford Union last month and the leftists tried to stop Tommy Robinson and Lawrence Fox even being able to debate it? And Jacob Rees-Mogg was on the opposing team.
Dan WoottonHOST
26:33
He was on the pro-Islam team.
Dan WoottonHOST
26:36
So there are a lot of questions about his true motivations.
Stuart JubbGUEST
35:17
I also think that If you look at coming back to the divided nature of some of these information events, a good example is if you look at universities.
Stuart JubbGUEST
35:32
So I think it's probably almost impossible to have a debate at a university now where you look at the Oxford Union debates.
Stuart JubbGUEST
35:41
you're either here or you're here.
Stuart JubbGUEST
35:43
There's no constructive debate.
SidneyHOST
38:13
It seems really snobby.
SidneyHOST
38:14
It's like, you know, when I pointed out Oxford Union, how that's quite, like, it's very prestigious, but it's also, you know, both good and bad.
SidneyHOST
38:22
and I feel like we also need more questions so if anyone has any please you know message anyway but it's kind of the same logic in my opinion where it's like you know it's good for experience but you know if you want to be seen like this down to earth person you shouldn't be doing it like it doesn't make you seem like a big snob but anyway Lib Dem Conference that's what's going on right now And I'm heartbroken.
SidneyHOST
38:43
This
Arianna HuffingtonGUEST
13:15
the final debate, the farewell debate, the president spoke.
Arianna HuffingtonGUEST
13:19
So I spoke in that debate, which, believe it or not, the Cambridge Union and the Oxford Union were so important at the time that the BBC carried the debate.
Andrew SullivanHOST
13:31
Really? Yes.
Arianna HuffingtonGUEST
13:32
And and this English publisher saw me in the debate and wrote to me asking me if I would like to write a book on the topic of the debate.
One Nightstand

One Nightstand

Hasan Minhaj

Sep 18 · 1 Mention

Hasan MinhajGUEST
33:32
And one of the kind of sub themes that we have in the movie is this idea of what do we do with the Koh-i-Noor diamonds? This is something that's been talked about deep for a long time.
Hasan MinhajGUEST
33:42
Oxford Union, reparations, the case for reparations.
Hasan MinhajGUEST
33:46
It should be given back to India.
Hasan MinhajGUEST
33:48
And I thought there was something that was really powerful in it.
John DobsonGUEST
6:10
Which made me feel really, really good.
John DobsonGUEST
6:12
The chips mean Jamie is going to the Oxford Union.
John DobsonGUEST
6:15
Or so he says.
John DobsonGUEST
6:15
But he's entitled to that break.
Connor TomlinsonHOST
12:05
Even though there are questions raised about state involvement in these protests via its organiser, Danny Tomo, who delivered a speech, actually, on the banks to the police and the RNLI and appealed to their sense of honour, saying, your grandfathers didn't fight the Nazis so that their homeland could be invaded too, even though there were questions about him because he once went to prison for attempted kidnapping.
Connor TomlinsonHOST
12:28
And of course, as we know from Tommy Robinson's presentation to the Oxford Union, If you are incarcerated and you're involved in various patriotic or dissident political movements, the intelligence services will come to you and say, in return for knocking some time off your sentence, if you'd like to cooperate with us, if you'd like to be an informant, embed yourself in future political campaigns and feedback to us, essentially act as a pressure release valve, public discontent, a containment agent.
Connor TomlinsonHOST
12:56
then we'll let you out of prison early.
Connor TomlinsonHOST
12:58
And Dammitomo, you know, being in prison and then heading up a platform which says, be a part of these protests which hide your identity, which you need to do, of course, if you're going to do this, because you could be arrested by the police or sacked from your job or trying to block criminals from coming into the country.
Deborah Frances-WhiteHOST
39:03
And if anyone has a religion or a faith, that's cool, you know, that nobody's trying to undermine an individual's religious faith or non-faith or whatever.
Deborah Frances-WhiteHOST
39:13
but last night I went to the Oxford Union to debate Roe v.
Deborah Frances-WhiteHOST
39:17
Wade, which I've mentioned, and on the other team was Erin Hawley, who was one of the lawyers that overturned Roe v.
Deborah Frances-WhiteHOST
39:24
Wade.
Jonathan FinkHOST
17:46
no.
Jonathan FinkHOST
17:47
He did come to the Oxford Union, which is why sort of, you know, I'd forgotten about him, but it brought to my attention, and that was 2025.
Jonathan FinkHOST
17:56
And the Oxford Union has put on a lot of, I would say, morally dubious debates, the equivalent of, you know, student society clickbait.
Jonathan FinkHOST
18:08
Was it the Russian society? Some of them have been sponsored by that.
Jonathan FinkHOST
18:12
I think this was the main union debate.

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