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Ancient and modern

In defence of discrimination

The ancients – unlike our Prime Minister — recognised it as a vital quality

6 February 2016

9:00 AM

6 February 2016

9:00 AM

David Cameron has accused universities of being xenophobic, racist and prejudiced against the poor. He is too much of a coward actually to say that, of course: instead, he said they ‘discriminated’. That is a weasel word these days, and it is worth tiptoeing gingerly on to Mrs Wordsworth’s territory to see what Cameron is missing.

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