“Do you need a law degree to become a magistrate” (answer: no) is, in fact, a question on the Life in the UK test for immigrants!

7 large institutions with less than 12 months solvency provable.

The idea that what the people want is to hear what Ronnie Wood has to say about Turner is killing educational TV.

A new kind of rapid Chotining. Please appreciate the alt-text.

Of course. And it’s also local jobs for a lot of people who aren’t academics — there’s a tendency in Labour I think to assume that it’s just pretentious middle class people losing privileged positions, but my uni employs about 6,000 people and the vast majority of them aren’t lecturers.

Anyone who can look at the current underfunded state of UK universities and think there's half a billion quid you can take out of the sector without doing catastrophic damage is just not fit for office.