LET’S TEACH THE OXBRIDGE ELITE

So Oxford and Cambridge Universities are dominated by posh people.

Research unveiled by Labour MP David Lammy showed more than 80 per cent of offers went to people in the top social classes, and 48 per cent went to students from London and the South East – but just 17 per cent from the North of England. Lammy’s right to say it’s “social apartheid”. I was at Oxford’s Ruskin College in the Sixties, a place that helped working class people get to university. I felt almost unwelcome. Fifty years on, it seems nothing’s changed. Let’s impose working class quotas and abolish tuition fees. That’s the only way Oxford and Cambridge will learn. papers described this year’s fair as the greatest of all.

But The Sun made a big thing of 19 police staff using the dodgems at noon on the last day, a fairly quiet time.

It made their front page and the paper claimed locals were outraged. Rubbish.

The Hull Daily Mail carried the reactions of the public – thoroughly supporting an event which the police played a major role in keeping free from antisocial activity or personal security threats. The police chief questioned whether a Sun reporter had even visited the fair.

The paper has form on this. The day after Hull began its year as the UK’s City of Culture – January 1 – the Sun printed pictures of drunkenness.

It turned out the photos were from New Year’s Eve, not the first opening day.

The Sun took people for a ride – and this was an unfair cop.