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ple drawn from a variety of backgrounds, callings and professions,” explains a statement on the college’s website, “who will form a bridge between LMH’s academic community and the worlds they inhabit and represent.” The three-year post has no official academic responsibilities, although Visiting Fellows often visit the college to give talks.

Watson, who studied at US Ivy League university Brown, and Worcester College Oxford, visited Lady Margaret Hall in May this year. LMH has form for highprofile Fellows: its last cohort also included the actor Benedict Cumberbatch and Beeban Kidron, the director of Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason. The college’s alumni includes Nigella Lawson and Michael Gove. Malala Yousafzai is currently studying Politics, Philosophy and Economics there.

“We welcome all our new Visiting Fellows and Emma Watson, who has now been appointed an Associate Fellow,” Rusbridger said yesterday. “We look forward to them contributing to the life of LMH and to debate, perform, challenge and otherwise engage with the fellows, tutors, staff and students. We can learn much from them and we hope they treasure their time with us.”

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IDINA MONCREIFFE NELL HUDSON ELLEN GIBBONS IN 1999, Tony Blair (below) gave a speech in Chicago presenting the cases for Western military intervention in foreign conflicts. The address shaped global foreign policy for a decade — including the Iraq invasion — but Blair admits he didn’t intend it to be so influential. “People still think about it as a defining speech,” he muses in Prospect magazine. “I didn’t think of it in quite that way at the time.”