[1] The following year, he went to St John's College at the University of Oxford, where he studied Arabic and Turkish.
Philip went on to become an Exhibitioner in Modern Languages at Christ Church at the University of Oxford.
He appears frequently on radio, television and the Internet, covering day-to-day French news and providing analysis of politics and the economy.
[4][5][6][7] In July 2016 Schofield wrote an article for BBC News Online in which he praised France for responding to the murder by Islamic State of a French priest, Father Jacques Hamel of Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray.
The piece was accompanied by a photograph of Adel Kermiche, the teenage jihadist who had attempted to behead Father Hamel, and a caption repeating the Archbishop of Rouen's quote "Forgive them – they know not what they do.