I suppose some of this might not be so great for future versions of myself. I was lucky enough to attend university when the middle-class kids could still go and gently study politics and university acted almost as a kind of finishing school. It was a lovely freebie and it pains me that the the Alexes of the 2020s probably won’t be able to spend three years learning how to binge drink, score and sleep around for themselves while occasionally attending an optional history lecture. But here we are. We need do something. And that something has to be more useful that just whining about how everyone has a right to free education.