PETER HITCHENS: Did you ever need an arts graduate in a hurry? So why so many universities?

This is Peter Hitchens��� Mail on Sunday column

Did you ever see, in the old Yellow Pages or on the web, anyone advertising himself as an emergency journalist? 

No, nor I. Did you ever, on some blighted weekend, tell yourself that you���d pay practically anything to get a journalist to come round? No, nor I.

So when people ask me how they can get into journalism, as they sometimes do, I urge them to become plumbers instead. 

First of all, they can absolutely guarantee that they will always ...