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“The moment I'm perceived to be even a tiny bit successful, my career will go down the pan.”

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Teachers complain a lot about how tough their job is. But, you know, the day begins in most schools at nine o'clock, ends at…

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I expect that in 40 years' time I'll be writing political tomes and working for an organisation like Oxfam.

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Oddly, I do have a problem with authority. I find it very difficult to knuckle down and follow rules. Which are the classic symptoms…

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I really like the Observer. I think I'd love to have a column with a broad reach that would enable me to do some…

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I've never been to a shrink. But my parents were very psychologically literate - my father had undergone Freudian analysis - and we often…

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You know when you tell a self-deprecating story at a dinner party, everyone's laughing along with you? But then when someone else repeats that…

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The fact that I'm a Tory who hasn't worked at a university - at least, not since I taught at Cambridge in 1990 -…

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If anything bad happens, the media will leap on it. We're under a huge obligation to be successful.

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“It was journalism at its best: irreverent, mischievous and beholden to no one.”

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In my capacity as a board member of the OfS, I hope to be impartial, objective, and fair.

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America thinks of itself as a meritocracy, so people have more respect for success and more contempt for failure.

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I tried being a mechanic and I tried catering, but I realized I had even less aptitude for semi-skilled labour than for academic work.

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