Letter in The Oxford Magazine, 14th June 2002 (extract)

"OUP could be sold off (after clawing back that £100 million of reserves!) while the going is good in order to reduce our over-dependence on its over-dependence on ELT, or at least its cost-base might be pruned by banishing it to a shiny shed on a local business park (with parking-spaces and a nice canteen) and then using its current space for main-stream teaching and research (no quirky new-build!).

Yours sincerely
DAVID PALFREYMAN
Bursar, New College, Oxford

[Editor's note: Weee!]

Editor's note: The article was an attempt, lawyer-to-lawyer, to repair the reputation of el grizzled Presidente, recently rendered increasingly hazardous by the Philip Keevil saga, the 'level playing field' hypocrisy and the ongoing Euan Blair preferment (also see Richard Ingrams pieces). Amongst Berlins' long, greasy smarm appeared the following quote:

"In a speech at a legal dinner a few years ago, Beloff complained, tongue in cheek, that a newspaper had put his earnings at more than £500,000 a year. He paused. 'They don't know the half of it…'"

AKME EXPRESSION, MAY-JUNE 2002 THE LEGAL BACKGROUND and Malcolm's Lectureship offer THE BROAD STREET SHOP featuring the Gallery of Shame, Akme University, St. Frideswide's grotto, Akme Ball etc. Reports: LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS Oxford Times 21/6 THES 26/4, Oxford Times 26/4, Guardian 30/4, Oxford Star 2/5, Oxford Student 2/5, Cherwell 3/5, Publishing News 10/5, Private Eye 17/5, Guardian 25/6, South China Morning Post 11/5, Change (US H.E. journal), Philosophers' Magazine, Autumn. Alan Ryan quits, ranting: THES 31/5, Cherwell 7/6, other quotes Rave review of Making Names in Oxford Student 30/5: "One of the most powerful statements of the human condition written in the past century."