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Affluent Oxfordshire usually conjures up an image of true blue Tories. But the county currently has an Lib Dem/Green coalition, which is pushing progressive policies.

The CDC reports that more than 2.5 million students were current users of tobacco products in 2021, a substantial increase over the previous year.

Dr George Ian Ogilvie Duncan was murdered at a gay ‘beat’ in the 1970s. His death was instrumental in South Australia’s decriminalisation of male homosexual acts.

Fifty years after the killing of an Adelaide academic inspired historic reform, a new oratorio co-written by Christos Tsiolkas offers an elegiac reckoning

Magazine in 1981 but now available in Kings short story collection The Skeleton Key, "The Jaunt" tells the story of a future where teleportation technology has been developed, which the story derives its name from, as humankind starts "jaunt-ing" around the solar system, slowly colonising other planets. The story itself revolves around a man named Mark Oates, whos preparing his children for their trip from Schenectady, New York to Mars, by telling them about the history of how this form of tra...