
Dozens of branches withdraw from UCU strikes, while there’s another “crackdown” on low-quality courses
On hearing that prime minister Rishi Sunak was planning to abandon the HS2 route between Birmingham and Manchester, his predecessor (but one) Boris Johnson is reported to have said: “It is no wonder that Chinese universities teach the constant cancellation of UK infrastructure as an example of what is wrong with democracy.”
Well, the man who illegally prorogued parliament should know something about frustrations with the democratic process.