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A right royal own goal

A right royal own goal

From dreaming spire to football pitch, muddled folk are losing the cultural plot

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Melanie Phillips
Jun 09, 2021
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Nigerian football captain Nwankwo Kanu meets HM the Queen, 2010

Yet another academic institution has revealed the alarming erosion of its students’ capacity to think intelligently and their corresponding eagerness to replace evidence by propaganda.

The “middle common room” (MCR) at Magdalen college, Oxford, which serves the college’s graduate students, ha…

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