An Underrated Genre

What makes the British censor reports worth reading are their bizarrely detailed accounts of violence. [One extract] could have simply said "there was a lot of bloody violence," but instead goes into gruesome detail about exactly what horrific delights... gore aficionados can expect. There almost seems to be an air of the critic in this one, expressing disappointment at the lack of realism. Add to this the clinical, bureaucratic tone that seems totally at odds with the subject matter and they often end up reading like the diary of a psychopathic English civil servant.
The Escapist

There's an idea for a novel in there, if some twisted fan of Sade and Yes, Minister cared to write it...

81% to go...

Among other things, they are emailing home their assignments: 19 per cent of students surveyed say their parents proofread their university papers, often in apparent violation of institutional rules.
T.H.E.

Perhaps all those scribblings of 'Please proofread' on essay margins are doing the trick—or a trick, anyway.

It’s a Hard Life Supporting Scare Stories

By creating their own porn sites researchers found that many consumers were vulnerable to known bugs and loopholes.
B.B.C. News

Thank goodness other kinds of website presumably can't exploit those same vulnerabilities. I'd love to know what the research proposal looked like.

Public Sector Cuts...

...have clearly begun.

Social Worker (Children and Families)

• Employer: MORGAN HUNT
• Posted: 27 May 2010
• Reference: CMP998
• Contact: Chris Pritchard
• Location: Middlesbrough
• Industry: Government - Local government
• Contract: Temp
• Hours: Full Time
• Salary: £20 - £28 per annum

Did He Fall...

...and was he pushed?

Police said he fell 40ft (13m) after being hit by a non-lethal munition... Officers eventually tried to subdue Mr Hill with what the police say was a "less than lethal munition", but he fell and later died.

It reminds me of those puzzles about causal overdetermination, the doctrine of double effect and so on.