I have just spent a delightful weekend in Oxford, the first visit for a number of years.
One thing shocked me though; the number of poor desolate homeless people sleeping in the town’s historic streets. Surely in a city with such an accumulation of intelligence, wealth and power, this is morally unacceptable? If each college were to take responsibility and support one homeless person per week, if companies run by alumni, and Government Oxfordians, all contributed to helping these troubled souls, then city might shine again.
But until then your reputation is sullied. This community of the select should show mercy and kindness to those less fortunate than themselves.
It is the moral duty of privilege..
Look below the spires and find common humanity with the world camped quite literally at your doors.
Jeremy Herbert
Nantwich, Cheshire
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