Robert’s recent concerns about exam questions:

A referendum on whether to elect members of the House of Lords would be unnecessary and expensive, Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg has said... “Unlike the referendum last year, [it] is the subject of complete consensus between the parties; we all had manifesto commitments to deliver House of Lords reform.”
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Where do I get news about the plight of postgrad. philosophy teaching assistants at Birkbeck? Private Eye, naturally...

The surge of pseudo-sequels to the writings of deceased authors has reached the point at which a multi-paragraph summary of one literary franchise alone now seems required:

Surprise mass e-mails from the Vice Chancellor seldom augur well...

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Are pre-doctoral research posts normal in Spanish academia?

He told Sunday Politics that the Conservative [sic] make up five-fifths of the coalition...

Even to a Briton, it can sound like something one might find in the Dictionary of Imaginary Places:

Seminar title as given in e-mail header: The Apathetic Children: a test case for Hacking.

People coming to live in the UK from outside the EU must ‘add to the quality of life in Britain’, immigration minister Damian Green has said. He argued Britain does not need more ‘middle managers’ or unskilled Labour...

And for centuries there were political links across the North Sea. The first Viking raid on Iona is thought to have taken part [sic] in 794...
The B.B.C. explains Scottish-Scandinavian political ties

Among the irritating things in life is correcting a typo. or similar in a Ph.D. thesis after submitting the final version, because neither you nor the examiners had spotted it;Actually, it’s worse: I spotted one even before the viva, and fixed it... but failed to notice my PDF reader saving the revised file to the wrong …

Call me cynical, but I think Google Reader’s new and disimproved version, released with about a week’s fanfare to warn those who might now be seeking alternative and more customisable options, may have been a rush job...

Anyone who has tried to get the address of a brothel in a strange city and has received the most long-winded directions, everything but the name of the street and the house number, will understand...
(Walter Benjamin, The Image of Proust)