Good riddance to Cambridge's May balls

I’m not usually one to hold back from damning the woke and progressive forces which lie within my alma mater, the University of Cambridge. An initiative by the geography department to decolonise the study of icebergs in the Canadian north was the final straw. But there is one conservative cause that I won’t be putting my name to: saving the May Ball.

Several colleges are reported to have cancelled their balls this year in reaction to poor ticket sales and students complaining that the events are ‘extortionate, overpriced and exclusive’. Trinity college, one of the few whose balls survive, is charging £280 for a ticket. At Cambridge’s lower-rent end, Robinson college has cancelled its ball, which was to have charged £180, in favour of a more modest party which is ‘more accessible and inclusive’.