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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 King's 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, who's preparing his children for their trip from Schenectady, New York to Mars, by telling them about the history of how this form of travel even came to be — and how it can only be done while a person is unconscious as the process ...