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Unflappable Cambridge profs maintain ultra-Britishness
Tom Waterhouse/Flickr
Tom Waterhouse/Flickr

I love England:

Cambridge academic walked in naked at a meeting at the Faculty of Economics in protest against the results of the EU referendum.

Victoria Bateman had written on her breasts and stomach ‘Brexit leaves Britain naked’.

The academic arrived at the faculty’s meeting last Wednesday where director of studies across all the university’s colleges as around 30 economists discussed teaching material and courses.

Surely that was not the first time a loony Cambridge don showed her a*s at a faculty meeting. But this must have been the most memorable. In its modest way.

But that’s only kind of why I love England. This is really why I love England:

Ms Bateman, a lecturer has researched the development of the European economy, sat at the two-hour meeting without anyone mentioning her nudity they just went on with a normal meeting about tripos and marking.

Nigel Knight, director of studies at Churchill College and the chair of the meeting, glanced at her and then said to his secretary: “I think we need some cups for the coffee” and everyone else just stared straight ahead.

 

Nigel! Best Britons ever! You will never, ever, ever defeat these people.

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