You can tell that Schnorbitz has had enough.

Very soon, if you were to create a triangle with Sheffield, Birmingham and Cambridge as its three extremes, not a single language course will remain within that triangle. The waste of expertise and opportunity is bad enough, but it's also becoming a case of state strategic failure.

When I first heard this line as a kid, it made me laugh so much that the fizzy drink I had just ingested exited through my nose.

A thing that we didn't know we didn't need.