A matter of perspective

A union spokesman interviewed this morning on BBC Radio Wales repeatedly told listeners that redundancies and wholesale cuts in humanities courses at Cardiff University’s Centre for Lifelong Learning would be “extremely bad for Wales”. Doubtlessly, union reps facing similar problems in Swansea, Carmarthenshire, Coleg Gwent and Neath Port Talbot – to name but a few – will be kicking themselves for not coming up with that one.