On Monday, 22 February 2016 07:51:45 UTC, Freddie wrote:

So how is this response different to Tudor describing you in public?
It is the same message - you just pad yours out with more words,
whereas Tudor cuts to the chase. I would take equal offence from
either response.

The problem that you missed in this is that dawlish has a degree in education from somewhere in Nigeria probably and from somewhere on the web almost certainly.

Getting back to the OP:
As Tudor said: "Not all degrees are rubbish, those at the top such as doctorates are probably as good as they ever were."

Perhaps he could have been clearer:
Not all degrees are rubbish, (except those in journalism) those at the top such as doctorates are probably as good as they ever were which generally means the majority are given for attending lectures and not disagreeing with anything. Then, at the end of several terms, accumulating enough points for filling forms in correctly to get given your own personal copy of another one.

Why that should impact anything written in the Telegraph now it's most astute writer has left (if such is the case) I can't tell. But as with anyone who has a degree of any degree he won't become an expert for a very long time. And apparently even Mr Eden was succumbing to Thatcherite leanings.

It is one thing to go after the sheep it is another to follow them dawlishly.
I'm reminded of the joke about an astrologer who had a grudge against someone of a certain birth sign. They lost 1/12th of their readers and the editor couldn't think why.

So even if he is fat and shouldn't wear red, let's hope it won't put Young Frederick off his daily dose of Toryism.