“What I’ve never really understood,” a philosophy lecturer at Merton College who hadn’t taught me asked me at a leaving reception upon graduating in 2001, “was why you actually wanted to study PPE?” My answer then, and as true for me now as then, was short and simple: “Because I […]
Tag: Oxford
The Atheist Bus Campaign has re-framed the UK’s ‘debate’ on religion
The Atheist Bus Campaign is the biggest thing I’ve ever done, and may prove to be the biggest thing I ever will do. It was more than three years ago that the original campaign started, and it still lives on. In recent days a new controversy has been brewing in […]
“It is dangerous to use this socket for boiling kettles” – only in the UK
The photo above is not a mockup. It’s not a joke. It’s a genuine sign in the corridor on the second floor of the Rayne Building at St Anne’s College, Oxford. I was at St Anne’s for a conference earlier this week. The sign struck me as very odd… What […]