“This is a London teeming with heavy-brogued Scotsmen and impenetrably accented Frenchmen.”

“Since that opening, in 1985, a system of arts funding has developed that is impenetrably complex, often manifestly unfair, and always unaccountable.”

“It reads rather like a candidate's essay for entry to membership of the US academic inner clerisy via an elaborately obscure text on an almost impenetrably dull topic.”