IT has more or less been officially conceded that given the idiotically high percentage of (mainly) youngsters entering “university”, half fail to find a ‘graduate’ job, if any, in the short run, and a third after five years, by which time they have probably given up.

Let it be hoped that these consist largely of the numerically significant “thick middle classes”, who should never have attended such institutions in the first place, of course.

Finally, I have heard some Spaniard on the English radio apparently suggesting that his nation may not be tackling the perceived Gibraltar question in the optimum manner.

It is no wonder that, for better or worse, I have been rather less prolific of late, therefore.

DAVID DIMENT, Riverside Court, Oxford