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Apr 13, 2024 | 
oxfordpoliticalreview.com | Luke Dale
Harold Wilson’s oft-quoted quip that ‘a week is a long time in politics’ reflects a basic truth: politics plays out in time, and the haste of political change can sometimes seem to chafe at the seams of the calendar.
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Apr 9, 2024 | 
cambridge.org | Robert Witcher |Luke Dale |Aaron Rawlinson |Pete Knowles
Hypertrophic ‘giant’ handaxes are a rare component of Acheulean assemblages, yet have been central to debates relating to the social, cognitive and cultural ‘meaning’ of these enigmatic tools. The authors examine giant handaxes from the perspective of the British record and suggest that they are chronologically patterned, with the great majority originating from contexts broadly associated with Marine Isotope Stage 9.
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Dec 13, 2023 | 
thecritic.co.uk | Luke Dale
When Peter Thiel describes the atmosphere at Stanford in the late eighties, the impression given is one familiar to anyone who follows university politics today. “Hey, hey, ho, ho, Western Culture’s got to go!” was the chant to be heard on Palm Drive in 1987, as Rev. Jesse Jackson and his allies marched with the impossible conviction of protesting students.
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Nov 7, 2023 | 
hudl.com | Luke Dale
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May 22, 2023 | 
cherwell.org | Luke Dale
When stripped down to its most skeletal form, the Coronation of King Charles III entailed a simple ferrying of objects from altar to throne. The Crown, of course—expertly installed upon the monarch’s greyed pate by the Archbishop; but also the Orb and Sceptre, staples of coronation portraiture from Charles II to Elizabeth II.
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May 13, 2023 | 
cherwell.org | Luke Dale
Most people don’t think about milk very often. Milk may be a staple of every Briton’s fridge, but it doesn’t service small-talk. At most, perhaps, a remark on a vegan colleague’s ‘oat drink’ will stir up a tense exchange of words about the dairy industry in an office kitchen. Otherwise, milk would seem to occupy—not unhappily—a subsidiary role in the dietary diary. A splash added to a morning bowl of muesli, or a dash in a cup of tea: such are, it seems, the quiet honours of milk.
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Apr 1, 2023 | 
oxfordpoliticalreview.com | Luke Dale
At this year’s Düsseldorf carnival parade, two political floats stood out. The first carried a model of the German Chancellor—branded “Scholz the ditherer”—being rammed in the back by a billy-goat labelled ‘Strack-Zimmermann’, the chair of the Bundestag’s defence committee. The second bore a papier-mâché German army tank, its body emblazoned with the lettering ‘Bundeswehr 2023’ and balanced, not on military-grade caterpillar tracks, but on a precarious bicycle frame, pedals and all.
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Mar 7, 2023 | 
cherwell.org | Luke Dale
“Don’t you ever stop reading?” complains Mr Wormwood to his daughter in Roald Dahl’s much-loved novel Matilda. Snatching the book from her hands—a novel by Steinbeck—he asks her: “What is this trash?” And in spite of her insistence on the work’s merits, it’s clear that he has already made up his mind: “Filth. […] If it’s by an American it’s certain to be filth.
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Feb 1, 2023 | 
cherwell.org | Luke Dale
Lord Patten’s address on “China and the Future Global Order” began in the wrong place at the wrong time, as he delivered two opening anecdotes not about the dominant Asian power and its geopolitical significance, but rather about the Europe of bygone centuries. The first was from the Congress of Vienna. During those days in 1814-15, as the aristocratic diplomatic corps of the old monarchies descended on the Habsburg capital, their lavish lifestyle aroused the scorn of certain ambassadors.
