Very good (and often forgotten) point. University expansion via polys happened organically. The gap in curriculum and quality closed over time and the ‘92 legislation granting university status was mostly a recognition of what had already happened… Richard Hoggart’s autobiography is good on this.

This sounds genuinely intriguing…

Rightly so ✊

Back to my teenage goth days 🖤

Cheers mate! Ladling on the slap, that’s the secret…

That’s a post deserving of a like if ever I saw one 👍

That’s so horrible. I’m sorry that happened. Feels like every moronic bigot around feels empowered to open their mouth at the moment…

Yes I think that’s right, broadly speaking. A confluence of many factors (as explored in the article) including generational ones. Buxton’s a fairly well healed area so doesn’t fit the ‘left behind’ stereotype. Reform essentially replacing the Tories there, I guess.

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I did a bit of a double take over ‘wrestling on bare-backed horses’ 😳