Dr Mehmet Çiftçi @mehmet_y_c

Researcher @PuseyCentre & Custodian of the @PuseyHouseLib | DPhil in political theology | interested in constitutionalism | husband, father | 🇬🇧🇨🇦🇹🇷 oxford.academia.edu/MehmetCiftci Oxford, England Joined January 2022

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Pusey House Centre for Theology, Law and Culture @PuseyCentre

17 hours ago

'The Meaning of Money' will feature two public lectures: Luigino Bruno, Prof. of Economics, Università LUMSA (Rome): 'Jesus the 'good money-changer". Arjo Klamer, Visiting Prof. of Humane Economy, Vrije Univ. Amsterdam: 'The Cardinal Virtues and Money'. @bruniluis @klamer_arjo

Pusey House Centre for Theology, Law and Culture @PuseyCentre

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Pusey House Centre for Theology, Law and Culture @PuseyCentre

4 days ago

We’re very much looking forward to hosting Prof Luke Bretherton (@WestLondonMan), of the University of Oxford home-team, to speak at this upcoming conference. Professor Bretherton is Regius Professor of Moral and Pastoral Theology at @ChCh_Oxford, and heads the @McDonaldCentre.

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Ben Woodfinden @BenWoodfinden

7 days ago

Because this needs to be repeated over and over: The Notwithstanding clause does not enable the violation of rights, it allows democratic legislatures to reject judicial interpretations of rights and allows parliaments to play a role in the interpretation of rights. Rights are…

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Nikki da Costa @nmdacosta

6 days ago

Is Lord Brooke, sitting one seat along from the sponsor of the Bill, advocating for assisted dying as a tool of population control? An extraordinary contribution suggesting human life be actively sacrificed to prevent climate change. This bill drives utilitarian thinking!

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Reconnecting Oxford @ReconnectingOx

6 days ago

This week's tone deaf "you did what?" award goes to.. @OxfordshireCC Tickets cost £150 each, or £600 for a table. Hotel costs extra. You will be expected to walk or cycle to the ceremony, and back. It's in London.

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Dan Hitchens @ddhitchens

a week ago

I’ve read this five times and it certainly looks like the editor of @JOE_co_uk calling for the elderly to commit suicide to save the Exchequer money.

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Alexandra Wilson @amwilson_opera

a week ago

Research in universities, a thread. Until very recently, the consensus in universities, rightly or wrongly, was that research was the most important part of the job. The REF loomed large. Everything was about REF-ability. Your chances of being hired depended on being able to /

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Tim Pitt-Payne @magpiemixture

2 weeks ago

In a cafe at Oxford. Next table seems like a first date. He is telling her about the archaeological evidence for Aztec human sacrifice.

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Madeline Grant @Madz_Grant

2 weeks ago

Baroness Monckton was magnificent on the Leadbeater bill's risks to adults with learning disabilities Especially when she raised the ghouls at 'My Death My Decision', and their pamphlet urging peers to reject amendments that would give families of vulnerable adults greater input

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Calgie @christiancalgie

2 weeks ago

Mitchell and Webb’s take on assisted dying

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Reconnecting Oxford @ReconnectingOx

2 weeks ago

If you want to understand the fantasy land that is Oxford's transport planning, have a look at old cycling and walking targets produced by OCC's ex-head of Active Travel, Patrick Lingwood who, in a past life was also head of @cycloxoxford 70% of all journeys to work by cycling?

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Dr Mehmet Çiftçi @mehmet_y_c

3 weeks ago

To be fair to the Anglicans, their translation of the Angelus (“brought tidings” rather than “declared unto”) makes more sense than the version commonly used by RCs. Surely the verb ‘declared’ needs a direct object? ‘Declared unto her’? Declared *what* unto her?