Melvyn Bragg’s class act
Was his success “social mobility”, or just good luck?
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Oxford Union president-elect: “My words were no less insensitive than Charlie Kirk’s”
George Abaraonye’s messages celebrating Kirk’s murder sparked outrage. But at Oxford, students are more sympathetic
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The Oxford free speech battle over Charlie Kirk
Don’t ruin a student’s life over a tasteless comment
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The thwarted Marxist of Balliol
Christopher Hill was much better at analysing the revolution than he was at fomenting one.
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The curse of the Oxbridge reject
As offers and rejections go out across the country, Britain needs to learn that Oxford and Cambridge are just universities.
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William Hague will find Oxford very different to when he left it
Part of an era of pseudo-aristocratic excess, Hague is becoming chancellor of an intensely politicised and class-conscious university.
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This England: How improbable
This column – which, though named after a line in Shakespeare’s “Richard II”, refers to the whole of Britain –…
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Sam Bankman-Fried and the effective altruism delusion
Will the idealist philosophy survive the conviction of its crypto king?
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How John le Carré infiltrated Oxford
When the author was a spy the university was his battlefield.
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Why the war in Gaza came to Oxford
The city’s Labour council is haunted by the ghosts of the conflict, and by Jeremy Corbyn.
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How AE Stallings joined Oxford’s professor of poetry canon
The playful, unpredictable poet knows she is an outsider entering a male-dominated corpus.
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Kathleen Stock’s adventures in wonderland
During the philosopher’s talk at the Oxford Union politics and fantasy became the same thing.
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Derek Parfit: the perfectionist at All Souls
Brilliant and eccentric, the Oxford philosopher spent his career grappling with fundamental moral questions.
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In defence of the Oxford comma
Thérèse Coffey is engaging in the wanton destruction of a British institution.
By8 June 1973: Pimm’s, rattles and oars at Oxford Eights Week.
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From aardvark to woke: inside the Oxford English Dictionary
The OED’s task – to define every English word – is as ambitious as it was 150 years ago.
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It’s not Oxbridge or nothing
Elitist institutions hold us back from real equality.
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Gilbert Murray: the Oxford don who made Greek chic
Daisy Dunn’s charismatic interwar history of Oxford illuminates the wide influence of the celebrated classicist and his circle.
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The born-to-rule Oxford Tories
Simon Kuper’s book Chums tells the story of how one university taught the core of today’s Brexit government how to…
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Richard Dawkins interview: “What I say in biology has become pretty much orthodoxy”
At 80, the evolutionary scientist and atheist still courts controversy. Will his influence survive a passion for social media?
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