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Headlong’s take on Karel Čapek’s 1920 tale of romance and robots is rife with timely debates about tech’s threat but at times the philosophical discussions drag on
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Here’s the lesson to learn from England’s World Cup joy: shared purpose is key, not shared ancestry | Maya Tudor ⊕⊕
For years, we have sought ways to define and achieve national belonging. Surely the team and our attachment to it makes that possible
When the final whistle blew just before dawn, and England had beat…
35 days ago
The shaming of Oxford: How the Guardian's ex-editor prostituted the university to solicit blood money from his friend, the orgy-loving Max Mosley - and proof the unrepentant racist's fortune came from Hitler, Europe's neo-Nazis and apartheid South Africa ⊕
At 4.42pm on July 4, 2019, Alan Rusbridger, Principal of Lady Margaret Hall at Oxford University sent a confidential email. Its tone could be described as gushing, sycophantic even.
45 days ago
Hollywood actress Cate Blanchett set to teach drama at Oxford University as visiting professor ⊕
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The Oscar-winning actress said she would cause a 'creative rumpus' when she takes up her post among the Dreaming Spires this autumn.
52 days ago
We economists have done the maths: ‘growth’ is a doomed strategy – there is a better way | Olivier De Schutter and others ⊕
Our roadmap has been shaped by experts across the world, from UN agencies to grassroots movements. We call on political leaders at all levels to use it
We live in an age of manufactured scarcity. In a…
53 days ago
Moment Oxford University professor is forced to cancel lecture after pro-trans activists call him a 'bigot' and 'transphobic' ⊖
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Michael Foran, an associate professor of law at the University of Oxford, was interrupted by demonstrators while attempting to deliver the lectures at Keble College.
82 days ago
Revelling students party through the night as they head to Oxford University's £200-a-ticket May Balls ⊕
Revellers wearing flowing ball gowns and undone bow ties sauntered bleary-eyed through the cobbled streets of Oxford during the early hours of Sunday after events held at two separate colleges.
3 months ago
Son of Nobody by Yann Martel review – Life of Pi author discovers a long-lost poem from Troy ○
An epic poem about the Trojan war is merged with the domestic heartbreak of the scholar who discovers it in this ambitious, structurally problematic novel
In Yann Martel’s fifth novel, a Canadian clas…
Meet the 'famous' Oxford University cat that keeps students company in the library... and travels to campus on a bus every day ○
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Cat Isambard Kitten Brunel, also known as Issy, makes a bus commute to the library alongside his owner Jamie Fishwick-Ford every day.
4 months ago
‘A fire that’s burning again’: Welsh language resurges thanks to adult learners ⊖
The number of people on Dysgu Cymraeg courses has risen by 61% since 2017, as people in Wales rediscover the ‘poetry’ of the language
Elinor Staniforth from Cardiff hated Welsh lessons at her English-…