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• For your delectation: the Oxford comma, a cartoon, two strippers, JFK, and Stalin

  I've blogged before about the usefulness of the Oxford comma in avoiding inadvertent confusion. But sometimes a picture is worth many words, as this cartoon ...

• In praise of the Oxford comma, and of Ayn Rand

  Via David Allan Green and Galleycat comes the earth-shattering news that, according to my colleagues along the corridor in the University's public affairs department, writers ...

• Disagreeing with Andrew Rawnsley: I’m sorry, but Ed Miliband is the very definition of cautious

  Ever since Alan Watkins' death, the political commentator to whom I turn first and whose opinion I value most is Andrew Rawnsley. But that doesn't ...

• Why do politicians talk such rubbish about Oxbridge?

  Well, seeing as I had a go at Nick Clegg last week for citing inaccurate and misleading statistics to damn Oxbridge, I'd better be even-handed... ...

• For the first time in 8 years my name will appear on a ballot paper. (PS: as a Lib Dem.)

  It's official: I will be the Lib Dem candidate in the 3rd May Oxford City Council elections, standing in Headington Hill & Northway ward. This ...