AC Grayling has caricatured British universities. No wonder they're fuming | Simon Jenkins

The New College of Humanities founder has exposed higher education as a luxury consumable for the middle classes

This has been a purple week for red rage. The hirsute philosopher, AC Grayling, may call himself a "pinko" but his embryo London humanities university in Bedford Square has induced apoplexy in the old left. He and 13 high-octane scholars are having their lectures "targeted". The Guardian is in ideological meltdown. Foyles has been hit by a smoke bomb. The Kropotkin of our age...