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    Oxford karma

    Sep 01, 2022 3 minutes

    ecently I went on a fact-finding mission to Oxford. Hoping to bump into Phillip Pullman, he who wrote all those wonderful books about magic, destiny triumph and adversity, so that I could discuss with him his uncomfortable appreciation of cyclists [Ed – see Pullman’s 28 October 2021 tweet], I had to settle instead for a guided tour of the suburbs. This was OK. The city centre, with its proliferation of antique sandstone colleges and antique

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