LONDON – The Oxford Union is, in its own estimation, “the world’s most prestigious debating society,” where international guests and speakers have sat for pointed interviews and stood for lively debate in its hallowed halls since 1823.

Guests have included Bernie Sanders, Ronald Reagan, Ricky Gervais, Mother Teresa, Albert Einstein and Michael Jackson – and, just this May, Charlie Kirk, the firebrand conservative American activist who was killed in September.

On Saturday, the Oxford Union president-elect, a 20-year-old student who appeared to celebrate Kirk’s assassination, faces removal from office, in a confidence vote that has drawn attention among student members and thousands of alumni from around the world who are eligible to cast ballots by proxy.

In the hours after Kirk was shot

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