The Metropolis

They make a desert, and they call it "a finely judged reconfiguration of our academic portfolio"

Mike Pollitt | Friday 1 July, 2011 11:45

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The Classics department at Royal Holloway is under threat. Oh, many of you philistines won’t care, I know. but I feel compelled to publicise this travesty in the hope that it can be averted. If you liked Gladiator, if you get a kick out of theatre and democracy, if you’re fond of polysyllabic words with Latinate roots, then rise up against this infamy. These languages aren’t dead. They’re only sleeping!

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