A year ago I applied for the University of Oxford’s recently created Professorship of Science and Religion. This was set up to investigate ...

text of a letter I think that Christine has mentioned to you in the past our interest in renting rooms or houses in the vicinity. We would...

Throughout my life I have often seemed to be in a ‘secret court’ situation in which everyone knew that I had been condemned in some way, but...

This was originally posted 19 August 2010 under the title ‘Genes, prep schools and Eton’. It has been re-posted ahead of the 60th anniversar...

text of a letter about the headmistress of my convent school, the Ursuline High School in Ilford, who later became head of the Ursuline orde...

Where she [Margaret Thatcher] did not think she was among friends … she scarcely made the effort to convert anyone. Most Leaders of the Op...

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[The Department of Education and Science] was a department with an entrenched culture and a settled agenda of its own which it pursued with ...

I propose that a fund be set up in memory of the late Baroness Thatcher, provisionally entitled the Margaret Thatcher Memorial Fund for Acad...

There is a quotation ascribed in various forms to Thomas Jefferson, third President of the United States of America (although it may in fact...