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Dinah Rose KC
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President of Magdalen College, Oxford. Barrister. Speaking only for myself.
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I think he wants his tea
Grey cat splayed across my files on his back.
November 25, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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Articulated lorry idling at the traffic lights.
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33 seconds of Ozzy making biscuits. Sound on for purring.
November 24, 2025 at 10:28 AM
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33 seconds of Ozzy making biscuits. Sound on for purring.
November 23, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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What it looks like when a Blue Tit flies straight at you! 😳😁😍🐦

Taken yesterday at RSPB Greylake in Somerset. 😊
#birds 🪶
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A Blue Tit flying straight towards the camera with wings and legs tucked in like a dart
November 22, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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Latest update from @britishlibrary.bsky.social says they are launching a new version of their main catalogue on Monday 8 December and around that time also launch an interim version of their Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue. Hooray!
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Restoring our services – November 2025 update
In the coming weeks and months we will be restoring a number of key functions.
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November 22, 2025 at 12:19 PM
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Dessert in the President's Lodgings with Michael Beloff KC, the Godfather of Sports Law.
Photo by Alexy Karenowska.
A gothic bay window in a drawing room in an Oxford College. Lamplight. A distinguished man in a stripy jacket is in full flow to an entranced audience of students, Fellows and guests. Wine glasses, plates for fruit and chocolates - already eaten.
November 22, 2025 at 12:56 PM
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Walter de Staplecat, Simpkin IV, Teabag, Balthasar and Benny D Cat take the stage as we meet the college cats of Oxford. And, of course, Magdalen’s Ozymandias. Read on for our photo special. (Includes a cat map.) oxfordclarion.uk/college-cats...
College cats of Oxford
Once upon a time, we featured an image of Magdalen's kitten, Ozymandias, in our newsletter. We figured it might be a gentle contrast to our regular diet of planning and local politics. The grey ball ...
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November 20, 2025 at 11:44 AM
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English bluebells are ridiculously invasive, & if left to their own devices over a short period of time, let’s say 1,000 years, take over completely. One mistake, deliberate or otherwise, & they are gone
An English bluebell
November 21, 2025 at 7:55 AM
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Angel Rising. Photograph taken this morning at sunrise in Glastonbury.
November 21, 2025 at 8:55 AM
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Judging
#critterposting
Crude drawing of a cat. Shaped like a poorly set jelly.
November 18, 2025 at 9:38 AM
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Oh dear. What have I done now?
Very judgmental grey cat with amber eyes. Leaning his elbow on the bed end.
November 18, 2025 at 7:16 AM
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the index from Burton’s “Anatomy of Melancholy” asks some good questions.
November 16, 2025 at 2:11 PM
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Today is Foresight Sunday: the pudding is steaming, and next up there will be planting of tulips.
November 16, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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It's a whole sub-genre of cat pictures LOL
Tuxedo cat with a dashing white mustache, very alluring on a white embroidered quilt, legs spread wide and floofy belly just begging to be floofed. His name is Mingus and he is a sexy beast.
November 16, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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"Draw me like one of your French cats"
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Yes, it is Saturday - what of it?
Grey cat lounging on the bed on his back, paws up. Resting his head on the end of the bed. He's had his breakfast. Peter's bare foot in the background. The boys are not getting up any time soon.
November 16, 2025 at 1:19 AM
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Yes, it is Saturday - what of it?
Grey cat lounging on the bed on his back, paws up. Resting his head on the end of the bed. He's had his breakfast. Peter's bare foot in the background. The boys are not getting up any time soon.
November 15, 2025 at 7:39 AM
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One of the best lions in the history of art. Detail of Saint Jerome Extracting a Thorn from a Lion's Paw by the Master of the Murano Gradual (Italian, active about 1430-1460), Tempera and gold leaf, Ms. 106 (2010.21), recto (J. Paul Getty Museum)
Saint Jerome Extracts a Thorn from a Lion's Paw, the lion breaks the fourth wall, and a monk looks alarmed
August 26, 2024 at 4:06 PM
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The #TransitCat of the day disapproves of all y'all's Ozymandias parodies (but we like them).
November 14, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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So wet and grey
Wet stone grotesque carving at the top of the Foinder's Tower. A shocked demon with a 70s style moustache and googly eyes, gaping. His teeth are in good shape.
November 14, 2025 at 9:18 AM
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Essential fur maintenance is a full time job
Grey cat sitting on a chair with a rush seat, front paws crossed, washing.
November 13, 2025 at 10:25 AM
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The termly Magdalen Convivium in the Lodgings tonight. Five short talks from graduate students and Fellows, sharing their current research with friends and colleagues - and an excellent buffet supper. Fascinating discussion on topics ranging from lethal despots to atrial fibrillation.
A buffet supper awaiting demolition. Including a fantastic fruit pavlova of which nothing now remains.
November 11, 2025 at 8:52 PM
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Congratulations to Mr Justice Coppel!
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We are delighted to announce that Jason Coppel KC has been appointed a High Court Judge, assigned to King’s Bench Division. He will take up his appointment on 12 January 2026.

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Jason Coppel KC appointed to the High Court Bench | 11KBW
We are delighted to announce that Jason Coppel KC has been appointed a High Court Judge, assigned to King’s Bench Division. He will take up…
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November 11, 2025 at 10:25 AM
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This is not at all true! This is the face of a cat who has clearly been underfed for some time and has now forced an acceptable performance from his staff!
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The face of a cat who conned his staff into providing two breakfasts of Iams chicken in jelly in quick succession this morning.
Sleeping grey cat with a smug smile on his face.
November 9, 2025 at 10:51 AM
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The face of a cat who conned his staff into providing two breakfasts of Iams chicken in jelly in quick succession this morning.
Sleeping grey cat with a smug smile on his face.
November 9, 2025 at 10:19 AM
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Magdalen's Remembrance Service begins at 10.55 am in the front quad. All are welcome.
dinahrose.bsky.social Dinah Rose KC @dinahrose.bsky.social · 17d
Tomorrow we lay wreaths for Magdalen members who died in both World Wars.

I am deeply conscious of the terrible effects of war on a college like this. Imagine what it was like for the President to see so many students full of promise graduate, to die only months later.

We will remember them.
November 9, 2025 at 9:09 AM