There is a definite smell of Vichy about Universities UK today. What on earth has possessed the majority of vice-chancellors to become Marshal Petain impersonators? We need an assurance from Steve Smith, the head of UUK, that if he is offered a peerage, he will turn it down.
John Newsinger, Professor of modern history, Bath Spa University.
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