The walking people: an interview with an Irish Traveller
“The government thinks that everybody’s millionaires, like the people over there,” Sarah* tells me. She gestures out of her caravan window in the direction of the Prime Minister’s home constituency, Witney. “David Cameron is living on a high stool just down there. He’s saying he’s help
Iqbal Khan lets his guard down
“These words, ‘sacred’ and ‘reverent’, they ossify the imagination.”
The canvas of literature
“Three days after I arrived”, Naomi Alderman recalls, “was the start of the Jewish festival of Succot.” This complicated her start to term, as she wasn’t allowed to do any work other than reading for three days. Combined with the lack of kosher food provided by her college, it all proved s
Notes on Port Meadow
Robert Lindsey, a Freeman since he was eighteen, explained to me that any non-Freeman wanting to keep animals on the meadow has to pay the group for the privilege, or risk having their chattels confiscated in an annual roundup.
Christmas shopping for one’s Oxford lover
Their first suggestion was innocent enough: a brightly patterned waist apron. Our investigator thought that a little too domestic, and asked for something more personal.
Spreading the Word
Isis interviews the Evangelists and Charity workers of Cornmarket Street, Oxford.
Speaker Event: Video
Clips from October's Robert King Speaker Event
Speaker Event: Photos
Photographs from the Robert King speaker event on 18 October 2011
The Isis at Fresher’s Fair: Stall
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