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The Lake District is rightly famed for its breathtaking waters, but its numerous small islands are also havens just waiting to be explored

As we earlier learned, preparations for the 1993 voyage began, as many do, with an idea. At least as early as 1988, a university professor presented his idea…

We learned a great deal about our most recently appointed Governor General Mary Simon and role a Governor General plays in Canada’s Constitution – more than a…

‘Whatever you do, don’t call them snowflakes,’ Caroline said the last time I spoke to Oxford students. ‘That’s not a grown-up way of conducting a political debate. It’s like calling you a gammon.’ She’s right, of course, but by God they make it hard. This week we learned that the Oxford University students’ union is planning to elect a ‘consultancy’ of ‘sensitivity readers’ to scrutinise articles in student newspapers before publication to make sure they won’t offend...