Tickets are now available for the Pusey House conference on the Council of Nicaea! See below 👇👇

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Delighted to share a provisional timetable for our upcoming Receiving Nicaea conference via the link below. A few small details may yet change (any updates will be posted online), but this timetable gives info about speakers, topics, timings, etc. puseyhouse.org.uk/_files/ugd/107…

Kids are down, wife is out — time to watch some WWII naval action in a U-boat: The Boat. I.e. Das Boot!

Some excellent observations on the use of social science evidence in courts by Huscroft JA of the Ontario Court of Appeal, in his excellent decision which declines to strike down first-past-the-post as unconstitutional.

What's the point of getting a literature degree if you can't criticize bad storytelling? Today for The Critic, I review the new Netflix film My Oxford Year, arguing that its obsession with clichés is a symptom of the microtrendification of fiction.

I cannot stand seeing this in bookshops. Awful.

My absolute favourite purchase in the 2nd hand section of Blackwell's, Oxford’s Bookshop was a Daily Missal and Liturgical Manual (J. Dukes SJ, ed.) from 1954, with the unreformed Holy Week rites, and leathers covers with a zip. Inscription that said ‘To Bobby, from Nora.’ For just £8!!!

Review of Mehmet Ciftci's stimulating book on church-state relations: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/09…

Concerning to see Nuffield BioEthics lobbying to extend the time limit for research on the human embryo. We already have some of the most liberal embryology laws in the world. Who does this benefit? Big fertility & tech giants💰 Department for Science, Innovation and Technology Department of Health and Social Care politicshome.com/opinion/articl…

To know more about where embryology “research” is leading us, please see this article below by our Founder in The Critic We are sleepwalking into a dystopian nightmare. thecritic.co.uk/of-mice-and-no…

At least 6 universities could go bust before 2025 freshers graduate In management speak, "a strategic consolidation of the offer" is predicted In plain English, this means shutting down courses, departments, maybe whole campuses & redundancies inews.co.uk/news/education…

‘I truly once thought that good history will live outside the academy if you just open it up to social media without any peer review or gatekeeping. I was wrong.’ Great stuff from Dr S Maitra. Tl;dr - Stop watching YouTube and listening to podcasts. Read a bloody book!