Why does the row over the president of the Oxford Union celebrating Charlie Kirk’s murder matter? Asks James Price

As a dog returneth to its vomit, so a fool returneth to his folly. And so I return to student politics, yet again. Five years after I accidentally became the oldest ever president of the Oxford Union, the ‘last bastion of free speech in the western world’ finds itself in an even worse state than when it was being run by yours truly.

The latest scandal began when the Union’s president-elect, George Abaronye, was found to have laughed at the political assassination of American debater Charlie Kirk. More crass still than the next head of the world’s most famous debating society rejoicing in the murder of the world’s most famous professional debater, was that Abaraonye had met with and debated Kirk only a few months before. To Abaronye, the murder victim was not just........

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