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Oxford don barred from speaking at feminist history event as fallout over her ‘transphobic’ remarks

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Oxford don Selina Todd been BARRED from speaking at a feminist history event as fallout over her ‘transphobic’ remarks continues Modern History professor Selina Todd allegedly made ‘transphobic’ remarks She was ‘no platformed’ at Oxford event about the women’s liberation movement Professor Todd had been accompanied to lectures by the ‘two big burly guys’  By Josh White … Read more

New housing development being built on Oxford Street provides central luxury living

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A surprising new survey has revealed how Oxford Street is slowly turning from the capital’s shopping hub to a residential address. Currently one of London’s top tourist destinations, it has attracted visitors from across the world for hundreds of years, and boasts famous department stores Selfridges and John Lewis alongside an array of chain shops. … Read more

Scotland Yard uses facial recognition cameras near Oxford Circus

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The Metropolitan Police is beginning operational use of facial recognition technology across London. It follows a number of trials of the cameras, which have been criticised by human rights campaigners as a risk to privacy. Here’s how the technology works, and why it has proved so controversial. – How does it work? Live facial recognition … Read more

Coronavirus vaccine could be available ‘within months’, claims Oxford University scientist

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A coronavirus vaccine could be available ‘within months’, an Oxford University scientist has claimed. Professor Sarah Gilbert and colleagues at the Jenner Institute are ‘rapidly’ working out how to stop COVID-2019 spreading further. A ‘seed stock’ will soon be developed into a real vaccine in Italy, with an initial 1,000 doses for clinical trials.  The World Health … Read more

Oxford University shocks classics students as it proposes to drop two key texts by Homer and Virgil

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Oxford University proposes dropping Homer’s Iliad and Virgil’s Aeneid from Classics syllabus in bid to modernise and attract more state school pupils Virgil’s Aeneid and Homer’s Iliad may be made optional on the classics course But Oxford undergraduates say the works are vital to understanding the subject Classics professor Jonathan Prag said no decision has … Read more

Biographer recounts the Oxford don who spent his life investigating a seven-times married bigamist

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BIOGRAPHY THE PROFESSOR & THE PARSON    by Adam Sisman (Profile £12.99, 240 pp) The Oxford history don Hugh Trevor-Roper is chiefly remembered (poor man) for his one disastrous mistake: his brief authentication of the so-called ‘Hitler diaries’ in 1983. Anyone who enjoyed Adam Sisman’s 2010 biography of Trevor-Roper will be haunted by what must have … Read more