Media

Recent Articles by Tom:

The Guardian, 13.3.03
"The sound and fury over elitism and "top-up" fees is drowning out an arguably more urgent contributory factor to the decline on Britain's universities - the drastic deterioration in academic pay."
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Recent Profiles of Tom:

The Times, 13.3.03
"He cannot use a computer. He does not possess a mobile phone. He believes in gentlemanly virtues. And he reads Boswell, Milton and Wordsworth. So why is this somewhat 19th-century man chasing such a 21st-century job?"
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The Times, 12.3.03
"Q: What is your favourite memory of your time as a student at Oxford?
A: Rather drunken, but often hilarious, postprandial debates on absurd motions..."
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Telegraph, 1.3.03
"He's been called the Gandalf candidate. The most influential judge in the land, who has laid down his wig and come down from his ivory tower at the House of Lords to save his old university from the twin evils of underfunding and government meddling."
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Independent, 24.2.03
"[Bingham?s] decision to seek election and succeed Lord Jenkins of Hillhead has already attracted a number of key supporters... All have given him glowing endorsements."
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Spectator, 25.5.02
"Lord Bingham is a wiry, athletic-looking fellow. In his youth he was famous for making a record-breaking ascent of Mont Blanc. It is with a cougar-like bound that he now rises from his chair . . ."
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Times, 29.7.98
"It is a safe bet that 46 years after Derek Bentley was hanged for the murder of PC Miles, the judges will quash the young man's conviction. The task of righting this infamous miscarriage of justice falls to the Court of Appeal, led by Lord Bingham of Cornhill, 64, the Lord Chief Justice and most influential judge in the land. Doubtless he will perform it with compassion and sensitivity. More than that, he will do it with consummate skill."
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