In defence of the Oxford comma
Thérèse Coffey is engaging in the wanton destruction of a British institution.
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From the NS archive: On the river
8 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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