Edinburgh has a snobbery problem – against the English
When I was at Edinburgh University a decade ago, a girl with a thick Surrey accent stopped me as I walked back to my room in halls. ‘Rah, have you been to the reeling society?’ she asked. ‘What makes you think that?’ I replied. ‘You’ve acquired a slight limp.’ ‘It’s the cerebral palsy, luv.’ They’re very forward, these English, I thought. Last week, Peter Mathieson, principal of the University of Edinburgh, claimed that Scots students were facing snobbery from the English. An alumnus, Dr Neil Milliken, had asked what Edinburgh was doing about ‘racial discrimination and class ridicule by self-perceived superior English incomes against native students’. He sounds jolly. Mathieson
