Janeainsworth wrote:
"alexa when research is published the authors have to declare any interests and who has funded the research, as far as I am aware.
You give the impression of criticising universities in general without offering any specific evidence of your claims."
Guilty as charged, except not criticising universities but the pay structures for universities. I am extrapolating the scarcity of public funding from teaching activities to research activities. Lecturers may have to take another job to make ends meet. Maybe some researchers are likewise frustrated in their academic freedom.
To think that London, or anywhere else for that matter, does not belong to any one demographic