This week, the chattering classes of this once great nation have been teeming from furious bluster, but not over the authoritarian quest to muzzle honest British men in masks or the ever-present assault on our beloved children's authors.

No, they are furious about student

accommodation.

Time was that student living was about surviving filth and cramped conditions.

I, for one, banged my forehead on many a low doorway, and leaving, with some sort of degree

and a slew of venereal diseases.

But the polenta-posadists of Primrose Hill believe that students should

not have been sent back to their halls in the midst of a simple viral pandemic.

But what really is the coronavirus, if not a particularly stout fresh as flu?

How do we expect our young people to go out into the world if they cannot survive a respiratory

illness with a 5% mortality rate.

With the current state of the economy, a moderate call of student population is in their own

interests. If only 75% can expect to leave with a graduate job, then a death rate of 5% is

surely improving their employment prospects. However, the hummus hoshis of Hampstead Heath

don't care about the economy at all.

They insist that students were tricked into going back to their halls where they were promptly imprisoned.

When it transpires, all their classes will be online and they could have stayed at home in relative safety,

all because the universities wanted to get their rent.

But is it a crime for a university to knowingly endanger their students to extort money

from them?

Legally, yes, but morally no, because we have to think of this from the perspective

of the universities.

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