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The Stuff Of Knightmare | Featured Article | The Gameological Society

"Knightmare ran for eight years and 112 episodes. At the height of the program’s popularity, 5 million viewers tuned in every week. It remains one of the most fondly remembered children’s shows on British television, 25 years after the first episode was broadcast." Great article on a top TV programme from my youth.
(tags: games knightmare gaming tv)

The Oxbridge delusion: why the more we talk about these two great universities, the less we know - Comment - Voices - The Independent

"Worse still is when journalists, comedians and television producers casually use Oxbridge as a byword for ‘elitist’ – and not elitist in the benevolent, meritocratic sense, but in the loaded dice sense. It politicises and toxifies Oxbridge, dragging it down into the national mood of resentment. The Guardian website even has a whole education section helpfully entitled ‘Oxbridge and elitism’ just in case the message ‘it’s not for people like you’ was too subtle."
(tags: university education oxbridge oxford cambridge)