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Arcadian Doubts

The latest issue of the magazine of Oriel College, Oxford (The Poor Print) has an article that opens with a passage from Waugh’s first novel, Decline and Fall: ‘You see, it wasn’t the ordinary sort of Doubt about Cain’s wife … Continue reading

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Brideshead and Rhodes Must Fall

Timothy Garton Ash, Profesor of European Studies at Oxford and author of several books, mostly about Eastern Europe, has brought Brideshead Revisited into the debate about removing a statue of Cecil Rhodes from Oriel College. The demand for removal was … Continue reading

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