The salutary tale of a depraved academic

Or how a microcosm presciently exposed the systemic failings of British universities and academia

If I had to pick one incident that crystallises the systemic failings of British universities, and much of Western academia, it is the fleeting visit of a ‘senior lecturer’ from a Pakistani university that Queen Mary University of London (QMUL) insisted I host in January 2007. I will call him BS (really, no pun intended).

Like many UK universities at the…