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The ineptitude with which the LSE affair has to date been handled is a disgrace, and a symptom of the reaction that Edward Boyle fears against the moderate progress made since 1945 in British society. Short's ‘thuggery’, and politically thug‐like, outburst at the end of last month's universities debate is one that he will live to regret as a most extraordinary error of judgement. The spectacle of Her Majesty's Secretary of State for Education and Science descending to a one‐sided saloon bar brawl against LSE's screwdriver‐wielding revolutionaries is tragic, and overstated.