In 1981, he went on to read Modern History at The Queen's College, Oxford, and was elected president of the Oxford
Student Liberal Society and then chair of the party's national student wing, the Union of Liberal Students.
Not exact matches
Nowadays a socially
liberal student, outraged over the injustices of our
society and the legitimating role the churches play in them, charges into a pastorate armed with an activist gospel.
or
society - oriented clerics, between socially conservative, individualistically oriented churches and socially
liberal, socially oriented schools,
students and denominational leaders.
Yet I can think of no more conformist message in
liberal societies than the idea that
students should learn to think for themselves.
Richard Reeves, a former adviser to the
Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg, chastised me for sins varying from my opposition to the coalition Government's threefold increase in
student fees to my suggestion that British
society is the second most dysfunctional in the rich developed world.
[308] The comments were condemned as racist and unacceptable by several Labour and
Liberal Democratic politicians, [309][310] and a King's College London
student society revoked a speaking invitation to him on the basis of it.