One of the great puzzles of UK politics is why a Govt. that leaps to 'rescue' the Steel sector, or move to reorganise the railways, cares so little about the plight of the University sector.
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@nprofile1q... It's not really puzzling. They have imbibed so much of the Reform rhetoric that they see universities as part of the annoying woke tendency. And that is on top of the Thatcherite assault on universities which measures them in very narrow economic terms.
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