I want to go back actually to your point that I really do want to take issue with, which are the point about universities. It's true that a lot of people in universities have been valiantly resisting the kinds of directions they've been taking. If that's what you mean by saying you find a lot of hairy leftists in universities, then yes, in my view, quite a good thing. But what they are is this, but you also are just because though you haven't seen the inside of universities in the 1970s. And therefore haven't experienced what, not only junior, but even senior academics, the whole soul destroying managerialisation of universities. So you're able to lean on
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