Despite the fact that Philosophy is the highest-rated subject at Middlesex, and one of the strongest in the country, management have decided to shut the department down, without even the pretense of an appeal to any objective standards. This is a clear and unambiguous example of the profit motive’s destructive effect on academic excellence; an end result of the meddling in higher education by New Labour philistines.

The campaign to the save the department can be found here. The online petition against the department’s closure has already gathered over ten thousand signatures.