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Sat in the Sheldonian Theatre on Friday night, I found it hard to grasp the enormity of the event I was at. I was sat before the North Korean Youth Para-Ensemble, in another country for the first time in their lives, on the first stop of their first tour, which also includes Trinity College, Cambridge […]
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Well, it was only a matter of time wasn’t it? I couldn’t write a column on film locations in Oxford without giving a nod to the 2nd highest grossing film franchise of all time. When confronted by a group of tourists perhaps the next most common question – after where’s the university?’ – that students […]
Continue ReadingHarry Potter author JK Rowling visited Oxford on Sunday to commemorate Exeter College’s 700th anniversary. Rowling’s “Mortality and Morality” talk filled the Sheldonian Theatre. Students who attended said that the author revealed interesting details about their much-loved series, such as her initial plan to name her central character Harry Batt instead of Harry Potter, as […]
Continue ReadingIt takes quite a pianist to hold an audience’s attention for two hours. Who would want to listen to a single person, on a single instrument for that long? But Paul Lewis manages it, filling almost the entire Sheldonian with an audience that hangs onto his every note. Lewis is one of the surliest performers, […]
Continue ReadingAlex Shattocjk ruminates disappointedly on the considerable lack of similarity of the Dawkins-Williams debate to an epic wizard battle.
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Continue ReadingWilliam Lane Craig cannot use religion to excuse widespread violence, says Sarah Gashi.
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