[Andy McDandy]

Misinformed, inaccurate bollocks. For starters, the increase in universities (aka "jumped up polys") was 1992, long before Blair.

[Youngian]

If universities in Cambridge had massive brains like Dyson and thought that one up, the city might now have a vigorous science and tech private sector.

There should be a return to vocational colleges, with an emphasis on contact with local employment.
This was proposed by James Dyson in setting up just such a college in Wiltshire, the Dyson Institute, in 2017.

[Boiler]

I visited the Cambridge Beer Festival earlier this year: amongst its sponsors were Xilinx but the major sponsor was a company called Gearset.

https://www.cambridgebeerfestival.com/a ... suppliers/

But hey, Dyson...