Students' unions need to have the reset button pressed on them

Sorry, I meant to stress that this twittery is from the Students' Union at Oxford, not from the uni or colleges.

Bless them!

Your comments are making me chuckle this morning, anya.

Is that a good thing?

And these are the future of our country !

Our brightest and best
Supposedly!

anya, yes.

Supposedly is spot on, jalima. High IQ and/or an ability to get good exam grades does not necessarily translate into good sense. Clever people can be very dense about some stuff as well as being impressive about some other stuff.

Just like unclever people then, patches of detailed knowledge and patches of blank incomprehension. Not a different breed at all.

Agreed, elegran. I guess it boils down to there being lots of different kinds of cleverness but there does seem to be an overabundance of intolerance and authoritarianism in students' unions nowadays, both here and in the US.

Student unions used to be hotbeds of resistance to authoritarianism. It appears that they are now becoming the seedbeds for it and harbouring some shocking little prigs. That could be just apppearance, mind you - we hear more about pronouncements like this than about the other 99% of what goes on.

Students and students unions have always been the bane of their elders. I was a student in the early 1960s, just as The Sixties period of protest and flower power started. I seem to remember that that the then NUS President was called, Jack Straw, whatever happened to him?

Eventually they grow up and make as bigger mess of the world as their parents.

I always thought he would make a bigger impact than he did M0nica - or become a kind of Jeremy Corbyn, protesting vociferously from the back benches.

Perhaps universities would be wonderful places without the students

bless the little snowflakes - it made me laugh

Sounds like something from Allo Allo, could be the basis of a sketch for the Footlights.

Zer and zim ?

Or maybe zoo ??