This year’s big story is that school-leavers are turning away from applying to universities for arts and humanities degrees... In the last five years, university applications have drifted towards subjects that are likely to lead directly to employment.

Once violence is an acceptable tool, you can edge out democracy... You don’t need to catch criminals or terrorists, just stage encounters, kill some random people, throw some others in jail and pretend.

Can we please stop the nation worship, glory-talk and world class mumbo-jumbo for a few minutes and think about the people in factories, slums and villages? What is a nation less its people?