Brian Moreton: Damning the demon drink won't deal with a greater ill - The Observer 24th August 2008

My headmaster once carpeted me for truanting. Golf before grades was our teenage version of guns before butter. He aspired to be Yoda, this pedagogue, but with better word order. 'By absconding from school, you have this afternoon missed Dr Roy's excellent annual lecture on astronomy. I consider that punishment enough. Run along.' Twit. It briefly occurred to me to say that missing double maths the following morning would pain me to the soul, but too briefly and not quickly enough.

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