yesterday: publishers on Middlesex

I missed this yesterday due to travel-related activity:

“Publishers, including Verso and Bloomsbury Academic, have called for the decision to close Middlesex University’s philosophy department to be reconsidered and have branded the suspension of students and three members of staff from the department ‘an unwarranted and unjustifiable act of intimidation’.”

Middlesex needs to start facing the fact that they aren’t just receiving angry responses from those directly affected by the announced closure.

But with things now at this stage, they will never be able to back down. It will take intervention from someone a bit higher up. And the mounting public pressure may soon lead to that.