Imran Khan, politician and former cricket star, is also the Chancellor of Bradford University. Following his imprisonment during the current state of emergency in Pakistan the university has started a campaign for his release. Now, this is admirable behaviour. Most of us are happy to tut-tut-and-don't-get-involved when we learn of injustice on the other side of the road let alone the far side of the world. So off toddled the local news team to get a few sound bites from the students of Bradford University. Now here is where it all starts to go a bit Pete Tong. You see, of the half dozen or so people interviewed on camera, only one could muster comments beyond 'It's so unfair' or 'He's our Chancellor' and "I like Imran Khan, he's really popular here'. Only one actually gave an example of Khan's philanthropy and the injstuce of his imprisonment (and one of those interviewed was the Dean). I suspect had you told most of the interviewees that Simon Cowell had changed his mind and Imran would be released and back on X-Factor next week they would have been happy.
Students have always come in for plenty of stick. Work shy lay abouts wasting the tax payers' money and in need of a good wash, is just one such example. The thing that really grates about students is the selective washing up. They will happily spend 5 minutes searching a sink full of cups and plates for the one mug that they have used, refill the sink with the dirty crockery, and wash just their own cup. This is fine when you are living in the squalor of your student house, but not so when you join the world of work.
Innit.
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