Campus cash-in

AS GREENWICH council votes to bar Donald Trump from the borough during his UK trip next year, Wandsworth council’s Tory leader takes a more diplomatic approach. Ravi Govindia is thrilled that the new U.S. embassy has been built in his borough and says he ‘warmly welcomes’ the embassy’s staff and visitors. DIANE ABBOTT has been at it again. Not utterly at sea over police numbers this time, but confused over basic science. Tweeting about the need, postGrenfell, for sprinklers to be fitted to all tower blocks, she said: ‘We know fire puts out water.’ MORE evidence of how our universities are wasting the multi-million-pound bonanza provided by annual student fees of up to £9,000. Just days after announcing the redundancies of 75 lecturers, Southampton University advertised for a chauffeur to provide a ‘car service to university executives and visiting dignitaries’. By the way, Southampton’s vicechancellor, the academic and engineer Sir Christopher Snowden, is on a salary of £423,000 — almost three times more than the Prime Minister.