White Christmas pun storm

THEY intended it as a light-hearted remark about the wintry weather based on the song White Christmas.

But an announcement by staff at University College London about its campus being open during the freezing conditions this week sent snowflake students into meltdown.

UCL innocently tweeted: ‘Dreaming of a white campus? Our campuses will be open and operating fully... so please make your way in as planned. (We can’t guarantee snow but we’ll try!).’ Students attacked UCL on Twitter, calling on it to ‘retract and apologise’. One wrote: ‘You know who else dreamt of a white campus? Hitler.’ UCL apologised, saying: ‘We chose our words very poorly.’ But that led to ridicule about ‘people choosing to be offended by an innocent tweet’

Ben Lovegrove commented: ‘Do you also apologise when you’re in a black mood? Go green with envy?’

Tory MP Philip Davies said: ‘We are going to end up living in a country where no one does or says anything in case someone takes offence.’