For most courses across Cambridge and Oxford they look for your A-levels to be around A-A* standard, of course depending on which course you go for. Whereas for GCSEs it seems that Oxford pays attention to them more than Cambridge does

What’s the question ?

To assume that is true one would have to assume that a path to freedom is desirable and therefore a goal to pursue. Also to assume that the logical step away from tyranny is the long lonely road to freedom is a vast assumption in itself. Freedom doesn’t necessarily mean saying no to tyranny more to saying yes to the things that constitute freedom

That really depends on what country you look at. Like for example there have been 12 British monarchs since the political union of the kingdom of England.