Life’s little ironies – 1

July 4th: former home secretary David Blunkett is to become a visiting professor at the world’s first centre for the public understanding of politics, at the University of Sheffield: 

Read on in the Times Higher Education Supplement

 

 

Reply (one of many) from a reader in Dorset:

I don’t know whether to laugh about Blunkett or the idea that one needs a centre for the public understanding of politics.

I think the public understands very well.

Could we not have a centre (at which Blunkett et al will be students) for the understanding of the public?

Just a thought!!

 

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