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Back Page: My week - Oakhill situation reignites restraint debate

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Monday Miserable weather doesn't prevent our invigorating walk with friends before eating lunch on their narrowboat just outside Bath. Our golden rule is not to go anywhere in a car on a Bank Holiday: it's gridlock locally, with visitors trying to get in and out of the city. In the afternoon I turn my compost heap, out of which leap two good-size rats. It's poison time again: no live and let live for rats.

Tuesday At home, proofreading my book on the 2006 Ballet Hoo! project. It's not yet clear when it will be published. But if it encourages local authorities and community arts organisations to work together with socially excluded young people, I shall be well pleased.

Wednesday To Cardiff to be interviewed. I've been helping academic colleagues there on police-related research for the past six months, and been paid on an ad hoc basis. Now the university there wants to interview me so that the arrangement can be formalised. It's very odd to be interviewed for a job that doesn't really exist and for which I never applied, but Alice's Adventures in Wonderland was always one of my favourite books. My experience is that interviewers are often more confused about their role than the people they're interviewing. Perhaps that lesson should become part of skills training for young people.

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