They pose extremely tricky existential questions: am I going to take up the study of Japanese again, and if not, why not?

I was intrigued to find out more about SHE Changes Climate

Shall I repeat that? ‘She seems very tired’. 

If I want to start a Master’s with the Open University next year, there may be financial obstacles, but no political or cultural ones.

I was under the clearly mistaken apprehension that the point of the Satnav meant that one didn’t have to be familiar with a location – the tech does it for you.