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Jesus Christ, Andrew. I know you look and sound like a man who should be leaning over the balcony of an eighteenth-century Caribbean plantation complaining that the rum harvest is behind schedule, but you could at least make a token effort not to talk like one. “Standards at our universities today?” Mate, a Black professor has just died and you are already back to rattling the silverware about declining standards because another Black professor criticised the coverage. You cannot spend a fortnight treating Jason Arday as Exhibit A in the collapse of civilisation and then act scandalised when someone examines the racial politics surrounding the spectacle. Unless, of course, you are looking for your next target. And “you can’t libel the dead” is not quite the devastating intellectual correction you seem to think it is. It means the dead cannot sue you. It does not mean everything said about them becomes magically true. But do carry on, Governor. Tell us more about standards.