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Srinivasan is as dumb as a stump. Everything she has written is vapid nonsense.

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I read her dreadful тАЬRight to SexтАЭ book, which is full of the usual woke nonsense - trans women are women, patriarchy is real (it isnтАЩt, itтАЩs a conspiracy theory with a strong resemblance to the Protocols).

IтАЩm surprised at that paragraph, which contains more sense than her entire book. The book is risible.

Relatedly, I think philosophy is a largely worthless discipline. Mind you, make me Education Secretary and all universities save the Russell Group would be shut down, and the humanities and social sciences, while still permitted to admit students, would receive no taxpayer funding. Any students they admit would not be entitled to student loans, either.

These qualifications are pure consumption goods and the taxpayer should not be on the hook for any of them. The universities should be for STEM and the professions, and thatтАЩs it.

I say this despite having a humanities qualification and a professional one. I should have been forced to pay full fees for my entertaining but useless classics degree. Meanwhile, both I and the taxpayer have been compensated handsomely for my law degree.

The money saved should then go to technical education modelled on the German system.

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