sentences:  At the same time as teaching social and political theory at Ruskin College, Oxford, from 1966 to 1986, Selbourne contributed as a freelance journalist and commentator to New Society, the New Statesman, the Independent, and the Guardian among other publications.He also travelled widely, visiting China during the Cultural Revolution and writing "An Eye to China" (1975), and to India during its political emergency of 1975–77, about which he wrote "An Eye to India" (1977).He continued and broadened this work after leaving Ruskin – and leaving the narrow world of left orthodoxy behind him – writing for The Times, Sunday Times, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph among others.