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Coalition seeks Olympics credit whilst selling off school playing fields and cutting sports funding | Oxford Agenda
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Views and Comment from Oxford. Coalition seeks Olympics credit whilst selling off school playing fields and cutting sports funding. The draft of a recent article of mine. Talked about the Olympics and made reference to the sale of school playing fields and to cuts in funding for school sports. The Guardian has now provided us with the figures in two articles:. The title of the first tells its own story. School playing fields: 21 sell-offs have been approved by coalition. The coalition has done nothing to...
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Tripping down memory lane as we scatter ashes on Exmoor | Oxford Agenda
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Views and Comment from Oxford. Tripping down memory lane as we scatter ashes on Exmoor. My late father had spent 18 months or so in a plastic box on the mantelpiece, and it seemed about time that he was liberated. Exmoor was the obvious place, and that is where we went last week to find a suitable spot to scatter his ashes. A circuitous route home took us to Tarr Steps, to tea in Dulverton and to the site of the former railway station at East Anstey where the old platforms are still visible. 45 years...
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Justice, Jobsworth and the banning of Passion in Oxford | Oxford Agenda
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Views and Comment from Oxford. Justice, Jobsworth and the banning of Passion in Oxford. The Ritz, the Tower and the Thames. No one, however, could miss the hideous bulk of the new buildings now rising in the city. The Gherkin and the Shard have elegance. Those shown in this picture have merely bulk and ugliness. We are threatened with 230 more towers to spoil the London skyline. I wonder what induces these approvals. I tweeted about this taking of photographs, and someone said jokingly that I would proba...
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Well how much is porn on the Internet, Jacqui? | Oxford Agenda
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Views and Comment from Oxford. Well how much is porn on the Internet, Jacqui? Everyone is a bit puzzled as to why former Home Secretary Jacqui Smith chose to tell us about her ignorance of the porn industry. One would have thought that she would try and avoid headlines which included her name and the word porn , given that her disgrace was based in part on the fact that she claimed her husband’s X-rated videos on expenses. The blue plaque and caption came from The Week of 17 October 2009. You can follow ...
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Driving the police up the wall at Fortnums | Oxford Agenda
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Views and Comment from Oxford. Driving the police up the wall at Fortnums. I am late catching up with last week’s Sunday Times and its description of the scene at Fortnum and Mason in Piccadilly during the recent disturbances:. Thirty police in riot gear went into the store to drag out protesters but others scaled the building and chalked “Tax the rich” and “Tory scum” on its walls. One played…a clarinet on the roof. So, thirty police did this, but others did. Is that the sense of it? From your own site.
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Discipline for Bristol Jobsworths – not likely | Oxford Agenda
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Views and Comment from Oxford. Discipline for Bristol Jobsworths – not likely. Times columnist Matthew Parris. Was amongst those who commented on the story of the council jobsworths who made a family take down their windbreak whilst eating their picnic on Clifton Downs in Bristol (see Putting petty officials back in their box. Like the rest of us, Parris fears the unchecked power of small people with authority unsupported by thought or brain. He wonders if the council officials have been disciplined.
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The Times iPad app drives out my 40 year imperative to read the paper every day | Oxford Agenda
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Views and Comment from Oxford. The Times iPad app drives out my 40 year imperative to read the paper every day. You have a few spare moments over breakfast, so you pick up your paper copy of the Times, hoping to skim a few pages of it. The pages, however, seem stuck together and it takes you several attempts to move between them. The struggle to turn the pages means that you barely get to read anything. The delivery mechanism is even more infuriating. To begin with, there is an error of principle in ...