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The Inexplicables by Cherie Priest – Review
Cherie Priest, proclaims the cover of The Inexplicables, is indisputably “the Queen of Steampunk.” Judging from the goggle- and gasmask-rich covers of her string of bestselling Clockwork Century...
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Culturing Atheism?
I went to mass on Christmas Day this year. I would’ve gone to midnight mass on Christmas Eve too, had it not been cancelled due to stormy weather. I’ve gone to mass on Christmas day for the past 19...
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The Dragon Men by Steven Harper – Review
Who doesn’t like goofy steampunk novels? Steven Harper’s Clockwork Empire series is chock full of airship pirates, mechanical prosthetics and bewilderingly bad science. The story is hung on the premise...
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Should atheists shun the Sunday Assembly?
Cross-posted from the AHS website, this article was written in response to CNN reporting a schism in the Sunday Assembly over the question of atheism. I have previously describe my own positive...
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Is this the year we say goodbye to Great Britain?
[originally published inThe Oxford Student, Volume 67, Issue 1.] It’s New Years’ Eve, and, as the bells ring out at midnight, my dad says out of nowhere: “2014 – the year we get independence!” Now,...
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A guide for Oxford’s failed writers
[an abridged version of this article was originally published in The Oxford Student, Volume 68, Issue 3, as “Write on! Guide for the Failed Novelist”] Deep in their heart of hearts, I think most Oxford...
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It’s time we talked to teenagers about mental health
This article was originally published in The Oxford Student under the headline “Sinking grades ring alarm bells for self-harm.” One in every five secondary schools pupils in the UK self-harms. This...
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No belief is beyond satire – and it’s time the UK’s student unions learnt that
This article was originally published in The Oxford Student. The Flying Spaghetti Monster is a fictional deity cooked up in the mid-2000s to mock the teaching of Intelligent Design in US schools. In a...
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Whose land is it anyway?
An earlier version of this article was published in the Oxford Left Review in Hilary 2014 under the headline Whose Land is it Anyway? — Radical Land Reform in Gaelic Scotland. It was subsequently...
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Look North – who is One Nation really for?
This article was originally published in Look Left, the termly magazine of the Oxford University Labour Club. I have it on good authority it pissed off Margaret Curran! To a left-wing Scottish...
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