In praise of ancient lanyards
By Brian Clegg
I’m currently doing some work at the University of Bristol as a Royal Literary Fund Fellow. This excellent charity puts professional writers into universities to help students (and occasionally staff) with their writing skills.
As these days you can’t do much at a university without a pass attached to a lanyard I have one – but I stand out somewhat because practically everyone else I see has a rainbow lanyard, while mine is black and white.
Being of a nervous disposition, I sometimes wonder if I’m going to be stopped and accused of being anti-woke or some such thing because I’m not flying the rainbow flag. In practice, I have no objection to it at all, but I was first issued with my lanyard during my first stint as a Fellow about 10 years, and the black and white ones where all that were on offer then.
Given the thing is pretty much indestructible and will probably outlive me, on environmental grounds I really don’t want to swap it to another one and throw it away (as I presume most of the longer-serving staff have). And, to be honest, it gives me a tiny vicarious thrill each time I wear it because of the passing resemblance to the lanyards worn by police in all the TV dramas. So I intend to stick with my ancient lanyard and not move with the times.
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