Cliché watch

When people's jobs are lost, it's always a 'JOBS BLOW' in journalistic language. As a punishment for reaching for the clichés, whizzy graphics have proved the BBC's undoing:

Chris Morris would be proud.

'Where do you want to go?'

…is illustrated with a railway track, and now we're on an 'icebreaker'. I say leave the ice alone. The bullshit bingo advances…

Now sticking post-its on the wall from academic speed-dating and standing by my patch of wall.

Update: now terrified. The only way to survive is to publish loads of stuff, sit on important committees, have children, teach massive amounts, raise external funding, be internationally renowned and wear severely modernist glasses - all as a young academic. We've just been told that the secret to a balanced career is to work only 9-5: our teaching hours are 9-9!