It was another symptom of the sad, anti-intellectual virus that is afflicting Britain’s campuses: identity politics. Identity politics has spread far and wide across our intellectual homes, and its one of its more recent creations, known as the "decolonise the curriculum" movement, that is now hitting the headlines.

Though it masquerades as a serious academic force, the "decolonise" movement is just another form of political student protest. Its objectives span from the cleansing of racist and imperialist figures from campus architecture to promoting a revolutionised syllabus – where there are fewer "dead white men" to be studied by young students – because the old one ​"​risks perpetuating institutional racism​"