EVERY WEDNESDAY

incompetence. My father was a councillor for nowt.

Hardly a day goes by without a council terrorising the people who pay their wages with edicts, backed by fines, for example over rubbish collection, prying CCTV and interference with the school run, while bowing to the latest demands of the politically correct.

Talking of which, university vice-chancellors clearly know what to do with students’ £9,000 a year fees. Their salary packages are up to three times the Prime Minister’s £150,000, regardless of academic performance.

Worse still, some of them do nothing to confront our sensitive students with the harsh realities of life. They might suffer stress.

The poor things would even denude the nation of its statues of educational philanthropists because they did not conform to their norms.

University leaders argue, like well-heeled bosses everywhere and the BBC cosseting its celebrities, that they operate in