Yes - that looks familiar, and I agree with you about the weasellyness. A number of us have taken this up with him in response to that email - no replies yet that I'm aware of.

At the very least he should change the webpage apology to something closer to this email. I suspect there is a lot of panic in Felix and ICU about this now and that they may be adopting the ostrich position. I've also not seen anything from College yet (though I'm now a long way away so might easily have missed something).

Friday's issue of Felix will be interesting, but I won't be back in the UK in time to pick it up.