The report of nude cyclists on Page 2 of The Observer this week, taking part in the fourth WorldNakedBikeRide (to protest against oil dependency and car use), for some curious reason reminded me of the need to consider the government attack on middle class wine drinkers. This cyclist was another nude cyclist drawing attention to something else. I’ll return to the wine drinking attack another time – possibly when I have had time to drink some more.
Now that the new puritans have expelled us cloven-footed smoking satans to the netherworld, they are turning their flinty eyes towards making drinking as socially unacceptable as turning up at a masonic lodge meeting to see if there are any money launderers in that night or if anyone knows who killed Roberto Calvi. (Apparently – The Masons are recruiting future Entered Apprentices and… Knights of the East and the West from universities. See: Martin George) As I have no desire to have my bowels burned or the top of my skull sliced off… I shall say no more.
So turning to slightly more real world matters… We have, this week, another example of a world class academic cock up…
RollonFriday reports this week that a GDL examination had to be halted: “students (Oxford Brookes) pointed out that the questions they were reading were an exact copy of a specimen paper on the GDL intranet. Students were asked to put down their pens whilst examiners investigated. The exam was suspended when a lecturer confirmed that the paper had indeed been on public display for the last month.”
Oxford Brookes is reported as saying that students will have to sit this examination again. A chance for students to put into practice their newfound skills on law and litigation.
On Monday 11th June… Frances Gibb of The Times reports: “The trial next week of a Court of Appeal judge accused of flashing will be heard by a rare panel of a judge sitting with two magistrates because of the sensitivity of the case.”
Queen’s Counsel (again, unusual for a Magistrates Court) will appear for the prosecution and defence.
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