One set of my grandparents fled the Ukrainian pogroms early last century to build a life in Toronto, starting with nothing. The other were middle-class English who, through a series of trials, had fallen into what might be called 'reduced circumstances'. So of course we should support the need to increase the number of pupils in our leading universities who don't have the same advantages in their early life. Ideally universities should be social melting pots – everyone learning from and about each other as much as how to interpret Beowulf. But that's exactly what the BBC is doing with the announcement it is losing 450 jobs across its news division.

Source: Daily Mail February 02, 2020 01:02 UTC