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HELEN McGINN smashes wine taboos that will have snobs choking on their claret

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For years wine snobs may have turned up their noses at anyone ignorant of the rules of good wine ­etiquette, from how to hold your glass to passing the port in the right direction. But in a move set to leave the snootiest of wine aficionados spluttering over their ­Sauvignon Blanc, the tradition of opening … Read more

Oxbridge students are up in arms over the pom-pom pomposity of snobs who won’t take them seriously 

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The dark and pale blues of the uniforms are, at least, in keeping with Oxford and Cambridge’s finest sporting traditions. But from the skin-tight micro-minis to the giant hair bows and perma-smiles, everything else about the Cambridge Cougars cheerleading team and their rivals, the Oxford Sirens, is likely to have the dons spluttering into their … Read more