Thanks, John

John Denham, previously Labour's Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills, said today that the government's plans to increase tuition fees are ideological rather than aimed to reduce the deficit.

Given that he presented the Open University (Harold Wilson's greatest achievement) with £27 million cuts on the basis that it is a wonderful institution that can take the hit, Mr Denham is hardly entitled to throw stones.

With friends like him, students need no enemies. Thanks but no thanks.