Dear Professor Peregrine...

By Unknown Author

Dear Professor Peregrine,

Having paraded myself like a common strumpet to the national press, this week a very unkind doll from a downmarket London rag slagged me off as a 'wanker'. This distressed and made me cry into my Red Bull like never before. Is there a way back to a career in journalism?

Pro-Plus addict, St Peter's

My dear old chap, time to start focussing more on your fresh talent as a writer and less what irrelevant Londonistas think of your emailing and news writing abilities. Might you pass on your emailing tasks to your newly-acquired sidekick?

Dear Professor Peregrine

Despite being one of the hardest working students in Oxford, I have an uncontrollable urge to look up quasi-pornographic images every single week in the course of my studies, and in a university building too. What can I do to stay focussed on the task at hand, as it were?

Running from vice, St Peter's

My dear girl, it's clearly the company you are keeping. Time to make a clean break and get some new features in your life to brighten up those long Monday nights.

Dear Professor Peregrine

I can't help tripping up cabinet ministers in the course of my daily peramblings in this fair city. Please help.

No news is good news, Keble

A similar incident happened to me when I was an undergraduate working on a downmarket rag in existence then. As long as he fosters no resentment, your future is bright old bean.

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22nd Jan 2004