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Sane commentary from @caronmlindsay.
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Not a perfect match, but interesting,
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There’s nothing like democracy (and this isn’t much like democracy).
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"UK politics is post-enlightenment, post-fact and post-truth".
- Fifty Stories For Fifty Years: 1996
"the 1996 TV Movie is, to an unbiased eye, quite clearly closer to the post-2005 TV series than any other piece of Doctor Who to that point."
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Oh, I didn’t notice this was one of Mr Arends attempts – he was always sloppy about checking his facts, which is why he crashed and burned at Oxford (same College as me, IIRC he did not complete his degree, and I also remember him from Cambridge) The actual cost of an UG education at Cambridge is currently ~£16 K/PA IIRC.
There’s an internal row going on at the moment about publishing the full figures, but it is not a state secret, it’s just a matter of when and how they are put out. In the interim have a look at the international student fees, which are a reasonable guide. The reality is that the University is running at a per capita loss on student fees.