In a 2015 biography, who was accused of a bizarre initiation ceremony while a student Oxford University?
Piggate was never a member. It was alleged that, as a student at Oxford University, former British prime minister David Cameron inserted "a private part of his anatomy" into the mouth of a dead pig, as part of an initiation ceremony for the Piers Gaveston Society. The pig's head is said to have been resting on the lap of another society member during the act. In their unauthorised biography of Cameron, "Call Me Dave", Michael Ashcroft and Isabel Oakeshott recount that a Member of Parliament and "distinguished Oxford contemporary" told the anecdote "out of the blue" at a business dinner in
Lenin: A Biography deriding the book as "rotten politics, poor history and bad biography." Lenin: A Biography Lenin: A Biography is a biography of the Marxist theorist and revolutionary Vladimir Lenin written by the English historian Robert Service, then a professor in Russian History at the University of Oxford. It was first published by Macmillan in 2000 and later republished in other languages. Writing in "The New York Review of Books", Martin Malia described Service's book as the "best place to begin assessing Bolshevism's founder". In "The Tribune", Bhupinder Singh praised Service's ability to avoid the "extreme conclusions" regarding Lenin and the Russian