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Oxford blues for PMs. By Michael Beloff KC
Keir Starmer has returned to his old college, St Edmund Hall, Oxford. Prime Ministers used to get honorary doctorates – until Mrs Thatcher, 40 years ago. No longer By Michael Beloff KC In 1985, Oxford University’s Congregation decided by a substantial majority to refuse to award Margaret Thatcher, a Somerville alumna, an honorary doctorate. Only Pakistan’s Prime Minister and President Zulfikar Bhutto suffered a similar snub, because of his responsibility for the 1971 Bangladeshi massacres.
Will the Olympics ever be politics-free?
The modern Olympics, first held in Athens in 1896 in a genuflection to their Grecian predecessors, was the creation of Pierre de Coubertin, a French aristocrat. As this septet of books shows from allusive angles, Coubertin’s best known quotation – ‘the most important thing in the Olympic Games is not winning but taking part’ – must rank as a paradigm example of a precept more honoured in the breach than the observance.
Inheritance Act Claims: A Practical Guide (3rd edition)
Inheritance Act Claims: A Practical Guide (3rd edition) Miranda Allardice, Tracey Angus, Paul Hewitt and Penelope Reed £95, the Law Society ★★★★✩ Inheritance Act claims can strike fear in many practitioners. This is the glaring wrinkle in the principle of complete testamentary freedom under the law in England and Wales. When drafting wills, clients and their advisers should be aware of claims – but it can seem byzantine at times.
The Oxford Handbook on Atrocity Crimes
The Oxford Handbook on Atrocity Crimes Edited by Barbora Holá, Hollie Nyseth Nzitatira and Maartje Weerdesteijn £115, Oxford University Press ★★★★✩ Christmas Eve 2002. I’m on the Great Barrier Reef and my assistant solicitor phones to say that I’m on the front page of the Guardian under the headline ‘Ethiopia faces £330m claim’.
Sport’s golden oldies - Michael Beloff
Some athletes defy their age and go on competing for ever. Michael Beloff explains how Among Michael Caine’s contributions to the English phrasebook is ‘Obsession is a young man’s game.’ So, famously, is mathematics. And until recently one might have said too that games are a young man’s game. There were, of course, always exceptions to that rule. Stanley Matthews last donned his England shirt aged 42 and played in England’s top football division when he was 50.
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