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No contest for the research assessment panel most likely to cause a diplomatic incident with one of our European partners. Number 44 Spanish (including Portuguese) will doubtless go down a bomb with Lisbon, our oldest ally, which spent a fair amount of its history resisting the fate implicit in the title. Too bad there's no panel on fisheries, denying the Higher Education Funding Council for England the opportunity to irritate the entire Iberian peninsula at one go.