How pathetically useless of Cambridge Union to ban Michael Savage

I've long had a soft spot for Cambridge, the charming, picturesque fenland university for people not quite ambitious enough to get into Oxford. But I don't think its Union debating society has done the place any favours by cancelling at the last minute its invitation to the US talk show host Michael Savage.

Savage was due to speak – via videophone – against the motion "This House Believes Political Correctness is Sane and Necessary" on October 15. The reason he had to do it by videophone, of c...