Revealed: Durham students’ chilling demands over ‘Rod gate’

The spirit of the Stepford students is back with a vengeance at our top universities, judging by the hysteria which greeted Rod Liddle’s remarks at Durham. Having organised both a walk out and a protest in response to Rod’s after-dinner speech, angry undergraduates have now organised an open letter, which Mr S has just received. As Professor Tim Luckhurst, the college principal who invited Rod, fights for his job amidst a furious backlash, the militant mob smell blood and are now using the incident to demand further concessions from the university.

Co-signed by the university’s junior common presidents – the student satraps of each Durham college – it claims that ‘colleges are students’ homes and students must be able to take an active role in leading their own communities.’ This includes, apparently, deciding who gets to sit at high table in a 200 seat dining hall.

‘Freedom of speech is not to be confused with questioning the rights of minorities’ it continues, insisting that the ongoing university investigation considers the ‘policies in place across colleges that allowed this incident to occur.’