As an admirer of your former editor, I enjoyed the front-page suggestion that she and I might non-accidentally have left our jobs simultaneously ("Ryan quits", THES , May 31). Still, it's funny to ask me whether I am leaving, and when I say I'm not, to go on to report that I am. Is this post-modernist news-gathering or have I missed some irony?
Alan Ryan
Warden
New College, Oxford