As far as outrageous student protests go, taking down a portrait of the Queen from the common room wall is pretty lame.
The now-notorious Oxford iconoclasts, all postgrads apparently, even voted before deciding HM was too colonial for their tastes. From the condemnation that followed, you would have thought they had done something genuinely unacceptable, like confronting the Queen herself during a royal tour of their college.
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